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Ebenezer Scrooge is a distinctive character in literature; one of those characters every great actor wants to tackle.
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a distinctive character in literature; one of those characters every great actor wants to tackle.
Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL has been a considered a classic almost since the time when it was written.
The famous comic strip 'Little Orphan Annie' comes to life at Olney Theatre Center.
Only in the magical land of Broadway can you take a 1994 animated Disney movie thinly based on Shakespeare's HAMLET and possibly based on a 1960s Japanese anime series and transform it into a 6-Tony-Award-winning and highest grossing Broadway production in history.
It's fortuitous that I'm publishing this review on #LoveTheatre day because it must be said - I loved LEADING LADIES playing currently at Salem Players in Catonsville.
Just imagine going to a nightclub today and getting the chance to see the iconic Billie Holiday (also known as 'Lady Day') perform, as she did in 1959.
I was so excited when I noticed that the Dundalk Community Theatre would be presenting Jason Robert Brown's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.
Most of all, perhaps, is the sense of the theater as a helter-skelter, seat-of-the-pants, totally precarious enterprise, in which people start out to cast or produce a show with no idea how it's going to be completed, without necessarily even a script, and in which the way to make the final product
There seems to be a constant in Lynn Nottage's plays: the reality that people of color and women do not get many breaks or many chances for happiness or fulfillment.
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's (ASC) POE AND ALL THE OTHERS imagines Edgar Allan Poe in a literal fever dream visited by lost loves and family.
For a majority of my adult life I've assumed Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY was a show about the backstage workings of a company of actors a bit like NOISES OFF.
So much time and effort goes into presenting any sort of play.
The cabaret show has been a staple in the entertainment industry for some time.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies.
You don't have to be Christian to love THE CHRISTIANS (with apologies to the 1960's famous ad 'You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Jewish Rye Bread).
Perfect casting makes for a beautiful rendition of The Glass Menagerie at the Vagabond.
Last summer, the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre performed 50 YEARS UNDER THE STARS, an evening of Broadway songs and dances to celebrate their 50th Anniversary.
David Henry Hwang Tony winning play is given a riveting presentation by Everyman's Artistic Director and Director Vincent M.
Sally, as realized by Katherine Vary, is amazing to watch, as she constantly calculates what tactic, rhetorical, pugilistic, or personal, to employ next.
Bruce Randolph Nelson's portrayal of Monsieur Gallimard is authoritative: all the glibness of a would-be mandarin who cannot quite pull it off, a lyrical self-awareness that does not quite go far enough, and a touch of madness.
The play has aged well.
Waltz right in to see Signature's Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer's stunning classic rendition on the musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
LYSISTRATA JONES is a show that I knew next to nothing about before seeing the lovely production this past weekend at the Red Branch Theatre.
The delightful production of ALICE AND THE BOOK OF WONDERLAND, produced by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company has found a way to make the story of Alice and Wonderland new and fresh for children and adults alike.
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La Sylphide Maryland Hall (10/16-10/18) |
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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College Choir & Green TerrorTones Concert McDaniel College (11/22-11/22) |
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Appropriate Maryland Ensemble Theatre (4/02-4/25) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "THE SECRET GARDEN" Classic Theatre of Maryland (7/08-7/25) |
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Student African Drum Ensembles McDaniel College (12/01-12/01) |
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Moon Festival Alice Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/26-10/18) |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Colonial Players of Annapolis (10/23-11/08) |
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College Band Concert McDaniel College (12/04-12/04) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Iron Crow Theatre (10/16-11/07) |