(07/17/2012) - Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents another installment of the Laugh Station series. The Laugh Station series debut in January of this year and the upcoming Laugh Station: Papaya marks the third new show in the series. Maryland Ensemble Theatre will present Laugh Station: Papaya as part of its MET-X series, created to expand the collective horizons of the MET ensemble and its audience. Performances are July 27 and 28 at 9pm and July 28 at midnight at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (31 W Patrick St. Frederick) located in the historic FSK Hotel. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased by phone at (301) 694-4744, online at marylandensemble.org, or in person at the MET box office. The show is intended for mature audience only.
(07/16/2012) - Jason Robert Brown is a trendsetter in the world of modern musical theatre. His most memorable work, The Last Five Years, will be brought to life in Catonsville by Stephen Deininger and Brett Hurt. The show takes place now through July 22. Wendy Meetze directs. All performances will be taking place at Rice Auditorium, 55 Wade Avenue, Catonsville MD 21228. $15 general admission and $13 for students, seniors, veterans and active military. To purchase tickets, visit www.heritageplayers.com. A portion of the show's proceeds will be donated to the Baltimore Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation www.wish.org and the Spring Grove Hospital Fund.
(07/09/2012) - Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present the World Premiere of the new play, I Am (Not) My Mother, based on true stories from and about the women of Frederick.
(07/09/2012) - DISNEY'S WINNIE THE POOH runs from August 4th - October 28th with performances every Saturday afternoon and the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, and special added weekday performances. All tickets are $17 for lunch and the show.
(06/24/2012) - Imagination Stage, in a collaboration with The Washington Ballet, presents its world premiere summer production, THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE. In this fusion of theater, dance, and puppetry, based on the novel by C.S. Lewis, the roles of the four children are played jointly by an actor and a dancer, and the courageous lion Aslan is portrayed by a life-size puppet operated by three actor/puppeteers, similar to the puppets used in the Broadway production War Horse. Check out the latest photos from the production below!
(06/22/2012) - Strand Theater Company plays host to the Momma Drama theater group from San Francisco, Calif. After 9 years of sold out shows, Momma Drama is presenting the East Coast premier of its highly acclaimed production StrechMarks: Growing into Motherhood. The play opens tonight, June 22, and we have a first look at the production photos below!
(06/21/2012) - Shana Unsettled opens at Fells Point Corner Theatre as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival on Friday, June 22nd and runs until Sunday, July 15th, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production shots below!
(06/19/2012) - Will Charlie Brown ever win a baseball game or the love of a certain red-haired girl? Will Linus let go fo his blanket or Sally find her philosophy? Will Lucy become queen and Schroeder the next Beethoven? Will suppertime ever come soon enough for Snoopy?
(06/13/2012) - "This play is not about my mother and me," says Lisa Kron at the beginning of her autobiographical play, WELL . Of course,WELL is all about the playwright and her long-suffering mother. It's a funny and sad examination of the intensely complicated relationship of mothers and daughters where love and hostility co-exist as the past clashes with the present.
(06/04/2012) - BroadwayWorld has seen and covered many concerts over the years, but never have we witnessed anything like what we saw on stage at City Center on Saturday night, June 2nd.
(04/26/2012) - The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre's production of THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY runs through July 14th with performances every Saturday afternoon and the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, with select added weekdays. See photos from the production below!
(04/16/2012) - Red Branch Theatre Company is the first organization in Columbia to premiere NEXT TO NORMAL. The show runs on select dates from April 6th through April 22nd at Drama Learning Center in Columbia.
(03/30/2012) - If you're in the mood for entertainment both magical and meaningful, step Into the Woods with Centerstage. The play, co-produced with the Westport Country Playhouse and directed by Mark Lamos, is beautifully staged as it trips lightly through a mix of classic stories before turning down a different and darker path.
(03/28/2012) - Single Carrot Theatre is gearing up to open the 3rd show of their 5th season, Hotel Cassiopeia, written by Charles Mee and directed by Ensemble Member Genevieve de Mahy. The show runs March 30 to April 29 with previews on March 28 and 29 at Single Carrot Theatre, 120 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
(03/26/2012) - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will transport audiences to the streets of London in the late 1800s for the musical thriller, Jekyll & Hyde. Check out the production photos below!
(03/26/2012) - Into the Woods began performances at The Pearlstone Theater on March 7, as a coproduction between Westport Country Playhouse and Baltimore Centerstage. Check out production shots below!
(03/26/2012) - It's mythology mayhem at the Maryland Ensemble Theater. MET's family theater, The Fun Company, presents an all original World Premiere musical for children about Greek mythology.
(02/29/2012) - Have you ever woken up and just known it was going to be one of those difficult days? Then you'll sympathize with poor Alexander who endures a day of trials and tribulations. But even this irascible eight-year-old learns you don't have to let a bad day get you down.
(12/15/2011) - Imagination Stage continues its work in developing new theater for very young audiences (ages one to five) with its original production Mouse on the Move
(12/15/2011) - The Pumpkin Theatre is making magic with its charming production of Rapunzel. Its colorful sets, elaborate costumes and lively performances pull the audience into a fantasy land of vengeful witches, damsels in distress and princes on heroic quests.
(12/04/2011) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this year honors singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep as their 2011 honorees. The special broadcast of the gala will air on December 27 on CBS. BroadwayWorld is excited to present special photos and coverage of Broadway's own Barbara Cook and more... Here is what President Obama had to say.
(11/08/2011) - This year's Children's Theatre season has been one of the biggest ever, having, for the first time, brought a Disney production to the Way Off Broadway stage with Disney's 101 Dalmatians at the beginning of the year and a regional theatre premiere of Dora the Explorer Live! Dora's Pirate Adventure this past fall.
(10/28/2011) - The national touring production of MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, kicked off on October 16, 2011 at the Orpheum Theatre in - where else - Memphis, TN, where it played through October 23. The company is now in Houston, where is plays through the weekend, and will next head to Tulsa from November 1 through November 6). Production shots have just been released and BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!
(10/17/2011) - La Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and two-time Tony Award nominee and Christopher Sieber, just kicked off its national tour at Des Moines' Civic Center last week. Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, this flashy comedy made Tony Awards history as the first show ever to win the Tony Award three times for best production.
Check out photos from the production below!
(10/13/2011) - La Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and two-time Tony Award nominee and Christopher Sieber, just kicked off its national tour at Des Moines' Civic Center. Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, this flashy comedy made Tony Awards history as the first show ever to win the Tony Award three times for best production.
(09/30/2011) - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's blockbuster 2012 Season continues this fall when the criminally entertaining Kander and Ebb musical Chicago opened at the theatre September 9th. This year, Way Off Broadway's audiences have been taken to New York City with the area premiere of The Drowsy Chaperone, followed by a visit to the islands with Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, then a summer visit to 60's Baltimore with the mega-musical Hairspray. For the fall, it is off to the Windy City!
(09/30/2011) - In Dora's Pirate Adventure, Dora, her best buddy Boots the Monkey, and the rest of their friends embark on an exciting trip to Treasure Island. The audience helps them navigate over Dancing Mountain, through Silly Singing Bridge and to confront the Pirate Piggies. Along the way, the audience will use their map-reading, counting, musical and language skills to successfully help Dora reach the treasure. All ends happily onstage with a 'yo-ho-ho!'
(09/12/2011) - In Dora's Pirate Adventure, Dora, her best buddy Boots the Monkey, and the rest of their friends embark on an exciting trip to Treasure Island.
(08/29/2011) - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's blockbuster 2012 Season continues this fall when the criminally entertaining Kander and Ebb musical Chicago opens at the theatre on Friday evening, September 9th.
(08/29/2011) - On Saturday August 27, 2011, BroadwayWorld.com's CEO/Editor-in-Chief Robert Diamond, in the midst of Hurricane Irene married actress Jennifer Hallie Rosen after a 17 month engagement. The two were introduced by a friend of Rosen's, who wasn't able to make the wedding, as a result of the weather and warnings throughout all the boroughs. The BroadwayWorld.com News Desk stayed feverish all weekend while the couple said 'I Do', as news was coming fast about theatre cancellations, schedule changes and travel advisories in addition to all things that were happening in other parts of the country and the world, not affected by the Northeast's local weather.
(07/26/2011) - Those summer nights are going to last just a little longer as Olney Theatre Center extends its production of Grease before it even opens. Bobby Smith returns to direct what can be called the original high school musical.
(07/07/2011) - Red Branch Theatre Company, the professional theatre company in residence at Drama Learning Center, is pleased to announce their upcoming show in conjunction with the 30th Annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Web of Deceit, a new play by Colin Riley runs July 8-16.
(07/06/2011) - The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) kicks off its Thirtieth Season this Friday, July 8th, with the opening of The Sculptress, by Marilyn Millstone, at the Fells Point Corner Theater (www.fpct.org), 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231.
(07/01/2011) - A Little Night Music with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim sits among the pantheon of sophisticated Broadway classics. Based on the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it captures the passions and pathos of a group of couples who waltz their way in and out of relationships in turn-of-the-century Sweden.
(06/27/2011) - The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 2011 Season continues this summer when it brings the smash hit musical comedy Hairspray to the stage. Hairspray is another in a line of shows that have had their regional or area premiere at Way Off Broadway.
(06/07/2011) - Olney Theatre Center's Artistic Director Jim Petosa directs violist-turned-playwright Michael Hollinger's Opus, winner of the Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2006.
(05/27/2011) - In the Greek myth of the same name, the sculptor Pygmalion creates his vision of the perfect woman, Galatea, and breathes life into the statue with the help of the gods. In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins changes the life of a cockney flower girl through the magic of language and a good makeover. At the Everyman Theatre, director Eleanor Holdridge breathes new life into this timeless story which has been told and retold in many times and many ways since its publication in 1913.
(05/04/2011) - If you never cracked the incredibly thick binding of Crime and Punishment' in literature class, here's your chance to experience Dostoevsky's masterpiece of madness and murder stripped down to its essential elements.
