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‘The Hampton Years’ at Theater J by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-04

To create art simply the sake of it being beautiful is not enough. The artist must infuse their essence, their very being into the work so that all of them becomes a part of what they are creating....

Call For Submissions: Mobtown Playwrights Group by Brent Englar

Guest Author 2013-06-04

Last season, the play development wing of Baltimore’s Mobtown Players workshopped three new plays. One of them, Madeline Leong’s Stage IV, will receive a full production on the Mobtown stage this...

‘A Delicate Balance’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-01

When daylight comes again, order comes with it. And after a long night in the house of Agnes and Tobias you’ll be praying for just that: order, and anything to make sense of the chaos that goes down...

‘Act A Lady’ at Iron Crow Theatre Company by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-05-26

There’s no trick to acting a lady, you simply need less as if your whole existence fatigues you. This great notion is a poignant point of exploration as Iron Crow Theatre Company closes out their...

The Mobtown Players Holds Auditions for ‘Stage IV’ on 5/27 and 5/29

Joel M. 2013-05-20

Baltimore’s The Mobtown Players are seeking actors for the world-premiere production of Stage IV, a new play by Madeline Leong, directed by Adam Kunsberg. The show will run July 26th through August...

‘The Full Monty’ at Silhouette Stages by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-05-19

Buffalo men go all the way! First they gave us the Buffalo wing and now they’re giving us the whole thing over at Silhouette Stages with their spring production of The Full Monty, written by Terrence...

‘Beneatha’s Place’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-05-16

As it turns out you still can’t live in a principle. The parallels are drawn here between Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning play Clybourne Park and CENTERSTAGE’S Artistic Director Kwame...

‘Murdercastle’ at Baltimore Rock Opera Society by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-05-13

Murder. Mayhem. America’s first serial killer. The Chicago World’s Fair. Imagine all of these concepts brutally twisted together into a full length rock opera and you’ll have a glimpse of what the...

‘Dreamgirls’ at The Lyric Opera House by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-05-05

It’ll feel like one night only when the magnificent Dreams pop into town singing their hearts out up on that stage. And if you’ve never seen a musical about struggle and triumph through adversity this...

‘The Hobbit’ at W.T. Woodson High School by Terry Byrne

Terry Byrne 2013-05-04

Calling all J.R.R. Tolkein geeks. If last year’s Hollywood blockbuster The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey left you dangling, W.T. Woodson High School Theatre Department’s lip-smackin’ The Hobbit, a...

Topdog/Underdog at Everyman Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-27

Watch the cards closely. Pick a red card you pick a loser. Pick another red card you pick the other loser. But pick a black card and you pick a winner. And picking to see the Baltimore area of premier...

Married to the Stage: ‘Columbia, MO Here We Come!’ by Natalie McCabe

Natalie McCabe 2013-04-23

There are many factors that have affected where I have chosen to go to school and why. One major consideration of Johnny and me is monetary. Our various degrees (an MFA and BFA for him, a BA, an MA in...

‘The VIP’ at Single Carrot Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-20

They lived as hostages for 126 days. The rescue mission took 41 seconds. A stunning dramatic reality is explored upon the stage at Single Carrot Theatre in this compelling play based upon real events....

‘Clybourne Park’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-18

You can’t live in a principle. It’s well and good in theory, but at the end of the day, it comes down to the reality of existence and how despite the passage of time some things never change....

‘Equus’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-06

A stunning theatrical sensation comes to the stage at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, as Director Sherrionne Brown presents Peter Shaffer’s Equus. It’s a deeply moving psychological drama that...

‘A House, A Home’ at Glass Mind Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-05

A twisted approach to Chekhov can be a tricky thing to handle, but think of it less as a retooling and more as a personalized approach, an experience catered to the audience, with input from the...

‘The Man From Earth’ at The Heritage Players by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-05

To be immortal; can one truly imagine what it is like to live forever? Not only live forever but never age? How would you keep your secret? How would you pass the time? Sound like something straight...

‘Slipping’ at Iron Crow Theatre Company by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-04-04

Even the blackest storm clouds can have a silver lining of hope and amid the dark tempestuous drama a gleaming beacon of light pierces this tragic story as Iron Crow Theatre Company presents a...

‘U Probably Think This Play Is About U’ at Strand Theater Company by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-24

Love is merely a madness. Quoted by the Bard and then put into action like you’ve never seen it as Strand Theater Company presents a compelling new one-woman show, U Probably Think This Play is about...

‘Peter Pan’ at The Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric Opera House by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-23

Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning! It’s flying into town for a limited engagement but every child and child at heart will want to race down to The Lyric Opera House and see Cathy...

Spotlighters & Artisphere present ‘The River and the Mountain’-Controversial Ugandan Play TONIGHT & Saturday

Guest Author 2013-03-21

The American Debut Reading of the Controversial play THE RIVER AND THE MOUNTAIN In August 2012, one line from one play changed Ugandan history. “I’m gay” was uttered by the main character from The...

‘Les Misérables’ at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School by Jennifer Georgia

Jennifer Georgia 2013-03-18

Our Lady of Good Counsel Theatre Company’s Les Misérables (the musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer, based on the classic Victor Hugo novel, that originally opened in...

‘God of Carnage’ at Everyman Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-17

If you’re eccentric enough to believe in the soothing power of culture then watching it unravel into a chaotic disarray of Neanderthal style behavior will surely be appealing to your eyes as the Tony...

Olney Theatre Center Announces NNPN Premiere of ‘Rancho Mirage’ & ‘The King and I’ by Laura Asendio

Guest Author 2013-03-16

Olney Theatre Center Announces NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Rancho Mirage and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Classic Musical The King and I for their 75th Anniversary Season by Laura Asendio. Olney...

Spotlighters & Artisphere present ‘The River and the Mountain’-Controversial Ugandan Play-On March 21st & 23rd

Joel M. 2013-03-15

The American Debut Reading of the Controversial play THE RIVER AND THE MOUNTAIN In August 2012, one line from one play changed Ugandan history. “I’m gay” was uttered by the main character from The...

‘Mud Blue Sky’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-14

Tender compassion and wicked wit come to CENTERSTAGE as the world premier of Marisa Wegrzyn’s Mud Blue Sky rounds out the remainder of their 50th Anniversary Season. In this funny new play by Wegrzyn,...

‘Hair’ at The Lyric Opera House by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-09

Make peace! Not war! Harmony and understanding! It’s all about flowers and love! It’s a live “be-in” at The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore this weekend as The 2013 National Tour of Hair: The American...

‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall’ at The Mobtown Players by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-02

A play-within-a-play, that’s been done. But a play about a theatre company trying to find start-up capital to take their unconventional methods on the road? That might be what you’re getting with The...

‘Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-03-01

As the old saying goes, bros before…well you get the picture. As it turns out Shakespeare was the inventor, trying to prove to us that two friends thick as thieves should never let a woman come...

‘Naomi’s Flight’ at In-Flight Theater by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-02-23

A bold new fusion in performance art comes to the stage as In-Flight Theater presents Naomi’s Flight, an original work written and performed by Mara Neimanis. Directed by Bryce Butler, this piece of...

4th Annual ‘Intersections Festival’ Opens Today At Atlas Performing Arts Center

Joel M. 2013-02-22

Atlas Performing Arts Center opens their Fourth Annual INTERSECTIONS Festival tonight with over 800 DC area artists performing theatre (14 plays are on the schedule), spoken word, dance, and music...

‘Laundry & Bourbon’ and ‘Lone Star’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-02-16

There’s never a dull moment in Maynard, Texas with the lively characters of James McLure’s Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star running around the placed. Offered as a double bill in Fells Point Corner...

Molotov Theatre Group Announces Its 2013-2014 Season by Alex Zavistovich

Guest Author 2013-02-15

Molotov Theatre Group, Washington DC’s only Grand Guignol theatre company, has announced its 2013/2014 season, which includes Extremities, Normal, and Killer Joe, and is issuing a call for directors...

Part Four: Wanderlust Theater Lab: An Interview with Playwright Tom Block on ‘Butterfly’ Which Opens Friday at Takoma Park Community Center

Joel Markowitz 2013-02-13

DCMetroTheaterArts caught up with Playwright Tom Block over coffee, in the small, sun-filled writing studio where he creates his written works. As he sat overlooking the rural expanse of his 15/100ths...