Articles Tagged With: Heather C. Jackson

Always, Patsy Cline at Free Range Humans

Reviews June 9, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

A secret’s no fun unless you tell somebody! So we’re gonna tell the world of the DMV that Frederick’s best kept secret is a little-known professional company slowly bursting its way back onto the scene with a semi-revival of a sold-out hit show from before the pandemic! Free Range Humans, roosting in Baker Park’s Bandshell for this show, is proudly producing Always, Patsy Cline, a light-hearted, feel-good musical to welcome audiences back to live theatre after what feels like an eternity away from the stage.

Mr. Wolf at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews September 12, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

Is the universe actually infinite? Or is infinite a generic designation
we apply to whatever it is that we don’t understand? Ponderous thoughts, deeply
vexing, and entirely not my own. They spring from the pen-eternal of playwright
Rajiv Joseph in his work Mr. Wolf, now an immersive theatrical
experience with Single Carrot Theatre. Directed by Genevieve de Mahy and Lauren
Erica Jackson, Mr. Wolf is taking on an infinite life of its own inside
The Rectory of St.

Cloud 9 at Iron Crow Theatre

Reviews January 28, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther 1 Comment

If there isn’t a right way to do things then you have to invent one. Iron Crow Theatre is doing exactly that with their current production of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9. Directed by Dr. Natka Bianchini, this work of Churchill’s examines a lot of things but askes a great deal from the audience in order to exist as anything other than a preachy drama with a lot of confusion. That said,

Review: Richard II at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Reviews October 28, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

What can we bequeath save our deposed bodies to the ground? Shakespearean essence in its purest sense; we are the stuff that dust is made of and our legacy is little more than our fragile mortal coil. An innovative new way of experiencing Shakespearean tragedy is striking up discourse on the stage of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company as the 2014 season progresses. The rarely performed Richard II is reinventing the meaning of tragedy under the skillful direction of Kevin J.