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Allison Fitzgerald as Jo in Little Women📷Jeffrey Salmore

Little Women at Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theatre

Reviews July 27, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

We don’t live for society; we live for what’s inside of us! And Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theatre is living for what’s inside of them; an astonishing production of Little Women, the musical, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, with Book by Allen Knee, Music by Jason Howland, and Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein. Directed and Choreographed by Ashleigh King with Musical Direction by Marci Shegogue, this empowering tale of the four March sisters,

Closer at Silver Spring Stage

Reviews May 3, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Everything’s a version of something else. Try lying for a change, it’s the currency of the world. With taglines like those, one hardly expects the intimate and fascinating dissection of human relationships that one gets with Patrick Marber’s Closer. Appearing now as a co-production between Cogent Theater Collective and Silver Spring Stage, Closer (a play published in 1997 and later transformed into a silver-screen feature of the same name) is produced by Diego Maramba and directed by David Dieudonne.

Port Authority at Quotidian Theatre Company

Reviews October 29, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

If you long for a simpler time, you’re not alone. In that
simpler time— in those days— you just spoke to people. Nowadays it’s all
digital, no one really knows how to connect. If you’re longing to connect with
nostalgia, or traipse lazily down memory lane— not your own, of course, but one
perhaps like it? Then Quotidian Theatre Company offers up a fine ghost of a
different past for this haunting autumnal season. Putting Conor McPherson’s Port
Authority on their stage as the final production of the 2019 calendar year,

The One-Act Play Festival at The Montgomery Playhouse

Reviews July 22, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

The things some theatres come up with to while away the hours of summertime until full seasons begin. The Montgomery Playhouse has come up with a most clever and entertaining format of entertainment in their One Act Play Festival this 2014 summer. Eight shows running on alternating nights in groups of four, there’s a little something for everyone. And if there is a play that doesn’t particularly strike your fancy?