Sex and games in Brooklyn Parkâ gotta be played with flare and passion! Songs and dance at Chesapeake Arts (Center)â gotta be played with flare and passion! Welcome to Falsettoland! Itâs so much more than just a âmarch of the Falsettosâ itâs the whole damn showâ Falsettosâ a half-decade in the making for The Maryland Theatre Collective, currently in residence at CAC. This brilliant production is the perfect close to their first,
âItâs a song I was waiting to hear so long, so long ago.â
Five years in the makingâ a show that was planned and cast and ready to go before the pandemic, now finally appearing on the Maryland Theatre Collective Stageâ Falsettos is rounding out MTCâs first full season in production and itâs a proper doozy well worth investigating! In a few minutes following their sitzprobe, Director and Musical Director Rachel Sandler and Associate Director and Performer Tommy Malek sat down to discuss the production and how thrilled they both are to finally be getting it up on its feet for an audience in 2024.
Did we not learn our lesson about how we arenât supposed to lie on our resume? And that taking the old adage of âfake it âtil you make itâ a step too far can result in disastrous consequences? In case youâre still out there learning that lesson (the hard way) and need a crash-course reminder in why this is a bad idea, Truest Ethos Theatre Company has a play for you! And itâs not even an ocean-front play in Arizonaâ wait,
At the turn of the 20th century, a new music emanating from African-American urban communities began creeping into mainstream culture for the first of what eventually became many times over the course of the century. But in 1975, E.L. Doctorow used this musical form as a metaphor for not only the infusion of African-American influences into the white musical world, but for the changes in emerging racial presences that forced drastic social and class struggle,
Some folks canât stand itâ say time is a banditâ but not these two, because theyâre timeless to everyone! Heading into the home stretch of the TheatreBloom âYou Canât Stop the Beatâ interview series, we sit down with Tobyâs veterans David James and Lawrence B. Munsey who are no strangers to theatre in the round nor to the roles which theyâre currently reprising in Hairspray.
Thank you both so much for giving me a quick nugget of your time!