Put on some make-up! Go get your tickets! And watch her put the wig back on her head! Yes, thatâs right, everyone of all genders, having conquered the great divide, Hedwig is coming for you! And not only is she comingâ sheâs HERE!! Dominion Stage is starting their 23rd Season with a tour du force production of John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Traskâs Hedwig & The Angry Inch. Directed by Danni Guy with Musical Direction by David Smigielski &
Show them that it can be done! Build a prom for everyone! Itâs Prom season, yâall. (Just like it used to be Les Miz season and Mamma Mia season?) Throwing their hat into the ring, Scottfield Theatre Company is building The Prom and itâs pretty spectacular. Directed by Chuck Hamrick, with Musical Direction by Nathan Scavilla, and Choreography by Becky Titelman, this inspiring new musical is making the rounds across the state,
Resolved to never belong to anyone but herself, Edna Pontellier controlled her own destiny.
But Iâm getting ahead of myself.
Picture it. A balmy, breezy, almost tropical evening on Grand Isle. Louisiana Gulf. Cottages. 1890âs. Summertime. Can you feel the sea breeze blowing in? Smell the scent of the water? Can you hear the French Creole dialect running thick like Cajun gumbo through the words that get spoken? Youâll picture it a whole lot better if you slip on over to Endangered Species Theatre Project this April to experience their extraordinary production of Rebecca Chaceâs The Awakening.
Whatâs the buzz? Tell me whatâs aâhappening? Whatâs the buzz? Iâll tell you whatâs happening!
Itâs Jesus Christ Superstar! Yes, the full-length stage musical, yes produced by Childrenâs Playhouse of Maryland, yes featuring some of the finest young talents in Baltimore and the surrounding areas. And TheatreBloom has a special treat for you readers. Weâve taken a few moments, on an early* Saturday morning to sit down with six very special cast members of the upcoming Jesus Christ Superstar to talk to them all about their experience with this production thus far and their experiences with Childrenâs Playhouse of Maryland as a whole.
âWhen your trust is all but shattered; when your faith is all but killed. You can give up bitter and battered or you can slowly start to build.â
I like to start most reviews, if I can help it, with a hook-line, usually some clever twist on one of the showâs iconic lyrics or themes, but this one is just a direct line-pull from âBeautiful Cityâ because itâs what co-founders Albert J. Boeren and Lisa Boeren have created.
Are you ready to sit in a theatre and see a play of hopes and fears? Stillpointe Theatre invites you to do exactly that. Examine the unexamined; explore the darkened recesses of the mind of the master of the macabre. They present to you the regional premiere of Nevermore, a 90-minute musical which swirls and swivels through the madness that is the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimoreâs beloved poet. Directed by Ryan Haase,
A song so beautiful it brings the world back into tune. Â
Butâs a sad song.
Itâs an old song.
And it is finally, finally here at Baltimoreâs Hippodrome Theatre!
The train on that long road to hell has arrived, bringing you the epic, Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown. With music, book, & lyrics by AnaĂŻs Mitchell, this stylistically mesmerizing and wondrously refreshing take on an ancient Greek myth will dazzle and amaze,
They come across my inbox like they always do; a cool drink of waterâ code for ânew playââ just asking to be looked over. Not in distress or nothing, see? These ânew worksâ they hold their own. But I wouldnât be a very good T.I. if I didnât give it a once over, now would I. T.I.? Whatâs that? You donât know? Theatrical Investigator. Thatâs meâ Amanda Gunther, T.I. â and this new oneâ Craft Town?
Surreal. And yet utterly relatable. Immersive. And yet distantly isolated. Unfathomable. And yet completely imaginable. This paradox of experiences is what awaits the theatrical explorer that couldâ and shouldâ be you, with Submersive Productionsâ latest offering: Katalepsis. Welcome to a world set many generations in the future, where humanity has been wiped from the face of the earth by a virus, and only a precious fewâ four to be exactâ remain, supported by mysterious benefactors,
Itâs all trueâ itâs all trueâ hilarity will ensue! Down at The Dew Drop Innâ youâll laugh tooâ itâs all true! Now granted, my lyrical composition isnât nearly as hysterical as Jaki Demarestâs when it comes to scribbling together crackpot-laughable words for the 70âs heehaw hoe-down spin-about that happens pretty darn close to the end of Act I with some of the blokes box-stepping âround one another in sheer nonsense-grade bliss. Waitâ sorryâ TIMEWARP!! Back it upâ all the waaaay back to the 1970s,
The sickness which no doctor can treat; the wound which can only be healed by the weapon which dealt the blow; Love. Movies, musicals, live-stage performances, television programs, radio dramasâ you name itâ have all attempted to conquer the subject, explore it or explain it, celebrate it, degrade it, deconstruct itâ the path to love in our lives, particularly that interwove into our digestible media, is unending. But never has it felt so real, so relatable,
Iâm going to be honest. Iâm not Adam Sandlerâs biggest fanâ or even really a fan, periodâ by any stretch of the imagination. I donât like most of his movies, I think he thinks heâs funnier than he actually is, and on the whole, although weâre living in the  golden âOprah Eraâ of musicals (ââŚyou get a musical, you get a musical, you get a musical, everybody gets a musical!â) and this particular one is not ânewâ per se,
Refreshingâ (adjective.) âWelcome or stimulating because new or different; reinvigorating; to restore by renewing supply.â Street Lamp Community Theatreâs production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was thoroughly refreshing because of all the intricate little quirks included to make the production uniquely their own. R-E-F-R-E-S-H-I-N-G. Directed by Jamie DiMaio and Andrew DiMaio, with Musical Direction by LaShelle Bray, and Choreography by Jamie DiMaio, this heartwarming production is absolutely charming, humorous, and the most revitalizing production of Spelling Bee you could ever hope to encounter.
Your majesties! Your majesties! A list of the royal necessities! At the top of that list there simply must be aâ ticket or two to see Cinderella! (Youth Edition) at Childrenâs Playhouse of Maryland! The iconic Rogers & Hammerstein classic is proving that impossible things are happening every day with a score of talented young performers parading all across the stage in their ballroom finest trying to catch the eye of his royal highness Prince Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander Francois Reginald Lancelot Hermanâ Herman!?
Dead bodies are the worst! Or are they? I mean, is there anything worse than your parents naming you âEyeballsâ? Yes. Your parents naming you âPitfall.â Okay, not literally, but what if you figured out at the ripe old age of 13, which is a challenging age all on its own, that your name translates in Latin to the word âeyeballsâ or âpitfallâ or worse, âdepressionâ? Wouldnât that be enough to set you spinning into chaos?
Everything that happens to you is your story. How you choose to tell it? And who you let tell it? Thatâs up to you. A surprising drama with heart and emotional heft, Suzan Zederâs Do Not Go Gentle is a rarely produced playâ at least in these partsâ and is currently making its way onto the stage at Spotlighters Theatre. An estranged son? A moody granddaughter? A spastically over-the-top estate agent? And a ghost.
Well, whoâd have thought? Well, bless my soul! Well, whoâd have guessed? Well, who indeed? That Phoenix Festival Theatre would be sold out before you could be their guest? Just wait and seeâ standing room at leastâ thatâs all thatâs left for their stunning production of Beauty and The Beast. Disney has a funny way of enchanting ticket buyers to purchase tickets before the run even truly gets underway. Good luck finding someone who wants to give up their ticket to this sold-out performance.
The year is 2013. The United States is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as the Taliban take control; Afghans are fleeing the country.
The year is now 2023. The United States started withdrawing troops from Afghanistan two years ago as the Taliban took control; Afghans are fleeing the country. Again. How can a decade have passed and a harrowing event impacting millions still be happening as if nothing has changed in ten yearsâ time.
 A rarely produced Sondheim. Perhaps one of Signature Theatreâs signature marks as they frequently unearth some of the lesser recognized or at the very least, lesser attempted, Stephen Sondheim works. Pacific Overtures is no exception for this season. The irony of white men creating the musical narrative for Eastern culture is not lost on anyone, particularly not Musical Director Alexander Tom, who is a Chinese and Vietnamese American. In a phone interview with the showâs musical director,
One might have to be a sage of lunacy to willingly sit through a production of Tom Stoppardâs Arcardia, regardless of how strong some of the performances are, or how pretty the costumes, how exquisitely detailed some of the props are. Itâs a curious choice for Greenbelt Arts Center to be producing this play, given the unforgiving and unapologetic chauvinistic male dominance in the character who hardly gets much of a comeuppance as he commandeers most of the scriptâ at least in modern timesâ once his character is introduced.
Is it your wedding day? Do you hear music starting to play? Because love is going to find you! Love of musical theatre that is! Itâs a retro-toss-back to the 80âs, baby! Silhouette Stages is putting on a big olâ weddingâ wellâ theyâre putting on a big olâ production of a wedding with the musical The Wedding Singer. Something old? Thatâs the 80âs. Something new? Jeremy GoldmanâŚwho is new to directing. Something borrowed?
Every moment is a moment when youâre in the woods. Be careful what you wish for, bring a slotted spoon to catch the potato, and nice is different than good. Direct from Broadway (including an opening weekend surprise of Andy Karl re-joining the company for the weekend), the darkened Sondheim Fairytale launches its National Tour debut from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Are you ready to go Into The Woods?
âI donât want to start a riot. I donât want to blaze a trail. I donât want to be a symbol or a cautionary tale.â Musical theatre is story first. Always has been. Itâs the lyrics in the music which transports the story to the audience and at the end of the day, the story at the heart of The Prom is just about a person wanting to live their life like any other normal person and get to have all the things that any other normal person has.
She just wants to go to the prom. And take her girlfriend. Why canât the world be more accepting instead of prejudiced, homophobic, and closed-minded? In the final installment of our âItâs Time To Danceâ interview series with the Teen Corps from Tidewater Playersâ The Prom, we get to chat with Lizzie Sprague and Sammi Flickinger, playing Emma and Alyssa, one on one with what itâs like to be a part of this area premiere.
Got your glittery Converse to match your sparkly dress? Weâve got two more chit-chat conversations with cast members from the âteensâ of The Prom here for you!
Thank you so very much for coming to chat with us! Tell us who you are and who you play in this!
Shelly Squire: My name is Shelly Squire and Iâm in the teen ensemble.
Why I you want to come out and be a part of The Prom?
Will you be this yearâs Prom Queen? Are you ready for this yearâs Prom dance? Weâve got a couple more members of the âteensâ from Tidewater Playersâ production of The Prom to get you totally psyched about coming out to see the show!
Thanks so much for sitting with us! Really thrilled to be talking with you about The Prom. Tell us who you are and who you play!
Do you have your tickets to The Prom? If youâve been following along so far weâve had four members of the âteenâ group tell us all about whatâs so special and why you should come! Hereâs a couple more for your consideration!
Thanks for joining the conversation and sitting down to chat with usâ tell us who you are and who youâre playing?
Tristin Goodenough: Iâm Tristin Goodenough and Iâm part of the teen ensemble.
Whoâs ready to add some Zazz to their Prom? Two more âteensâ from the area premiere of The Prom here to chat with us about their prom experiences!
Thanks for sitting down with us, why donât you tell us who you are and who you play?
Maggie Donahue: Iâm Maggie Donahue and I play Shelby.
Tell me a little bit about Shelby.
Maggie: Shelby is a cheerleader.
One thingâs universalâ lifeâs no dress rehearsal! Do you have your perfect prom dress? Shoes? Gown or tux? Orâ *gasp* date!? For the area premiere of The Prom, Tidewater Players has given us their âteensâ to have some âProm-Gossâ (also known as gossip) about what itâs like to be a part of the area premiere of this sensational new show thatâs currently sweeping the nation.
Thank you so much for sitting down with us,
Stand Up ForâŚTheatre did it!
In the DoodleHATCH!
With a play!
Thatâs Clue in a nutshell, right? Whodunnit, with what, and where? And thatâs what you get with SUFTâs current production of the iconic boardgame-turned-movie-turned-play. Clue, directed by Ed Higgins, is a madcap chase of characters all throughout Boddy Manor in an attempts to solve the age-old question of whodunnit? as the bodies pile up throughout the evening.