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Community College of Baltimore County’s Cockpit in Court presents Social Security in their Cabaret-style theatre in the round. The café feel, with the audience at tables circling the stage, is a very engaging way to see such a personal family dramedy, and this strong ensemble cast throws open their front door and greets you with [...]
In Medea, now playing at Mobtown Players, an ancient drama is played out amidst the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood. It is the story of a woman driven by rage and indignation, seeking revenge for the destruction of her marriage, who makes a choice no mother should have to make. Directors Melissa O’Brien, Caitlin [...]
If things look a bit funny along Leesburg Pike or Washington Street these days, it may be because Falls Church theatre-goers have been treated to a taste of good, old-fashioned, All-American tomfoolery for upwards of the last two weeks. Mark Twain’s only play, Is He Dead? has finally come to the stage, offering heaping doses of [...]
Baltimore County Community College’s Cockpit in Court production of Gypsy opened to a full house humming with excitement to see what many critics believe is the greatest American musical. With popular toe-tapping songs including, “Everything’s Coming up Roses,” “Together (Wherever We Go),” and “Let Me Entertain You,” chances are you have heard these songs, even [...]
Here’s a recipe for you: take one intimate performance space, add a set evoking three floors in a Victorian manor home, stir in one marriage on the rocks, spice liberally with eccentric characters who have no idea they’re all in the same house, and voila—you’ve got Colonial Player’s thoroughly enjoyable farce, Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps. [...]
Theatre as an artistic medium engages us with a combination of our senses, including our senses of imagination and creativity. Some plays are tuned to the ear–the ebbs and flow of language. Others create visual mosaics scene by scene. With its rich, ideas-laden writing and wonderful visuals, RED–John Logan’s Tony Award-winning drama about artist Mark [...]
The Little Theatre of Alexandria produced its first play in 1935, only three years after Twentieth Century opened on Broadway, and a year after the hit show made it to Hollywood. Even though the film was a failure at the Box Office, the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry recognized it for establishing “the essential ingredients of [...]
Private Lives by Noel Coward, now playing at Vagabond Players, is over eighty years old but no less funny or relevant than when it first premiered in 1930. It tells the story of Elyot (Michael P. Sullivan) and Amanda (Ann Turiano), a divorced couple who discover that they are both honeymooning with their new spouses [...]
Although it has often been seen as a vehicle for pop stars, The Wiz has always had the potential to touch audiences and offer some solid life-lessons. It may be fun to watch Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow or Richard Pryor as the Wizard, but the star-power of movie and Broadway versions can blind us to [...]
The main advantage of Spotlighters Theatre’s rather unconventional and intimate space is that a family drama like Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance feels as if it is taking place in your own living room. In this case, the effect is both enlightening and a little debilitating–we are privy to nearly three hours of household drama, [...]
The conception of the musical Camelot is like a set of Russian nesting dolls— it is an adaptation of an adaptation that was inspired by an adaptation of a legend. Lerner and Loewe based Camelot on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, a novel inspired by Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, possibly the [...]
In a lovely, little open-air theater that sits across the street from the City Dock, Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre opened it 47th season with Swing! — A revue utilizing the popular music and dance from the big band era. Swing is a term that defines this uniquely American art form that first evolved out of [...]
![The men of Hot Metal (l-r, Malcolm [Matthew Acquard], Dave [Micah Chalmer], Jerry [Dean Allen Davis], Ethan [John Aquila], Harold [Matt Melenas], and Horse [Bobby English].](http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/full-100x100.jpg)
Silhouette Stages’ production of The Full Monty strips bare and shows more of men’s hearts than of their “unmentionables.” Co-directors Conni Ross and Debbi Mobley have put together a cast that works well together. I felt their hardships and pain, from their struggling employment situations and relationships to their lost loves and their determination to [...]
Yes, “the little dog laughed” is a familiar line from a beloved children’s nursery rhyme; but make no mistake, the play by the same name is exclusively for grown-ups. Playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s rendition may have an ending reminiscent of “Hey Diddle Diddle,” but his 2006 comedy drama is a far more brazen fable about [...]
