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Oz Heiligman (left) as Young Edgar and Ian Blackwell Rogers (right) as Edgar Allan Poe in A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe 📷 Alan Kayanan

A Christmas Carol For Edgar Allan Poe at The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre

Reviews December 8, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

“Bills don’t care about the holidays, Virginia.” Not quite the same ring as that line about truly there is a Santa Claus. But then again, this isn’t exactly your grandfolks’ Christmas Carol either. A glorious blending of the macabre meets the holidays, which is sort of what Dickens intended when he wrote A Christmas Carol so many Christmas pasts’ ago, or at least that’s how it turned out— what with the ghosts and all.

Pipeline at Vagabond Players

Reviews April 10, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

People have expectations of you because of how they see you and if you get caught up in how you are seen you become what people expect, be it good, bad, or otherwise. Powerful stuff packed heavily into the words of Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline appearing as the penultimate production at Vagabond Players in their 109th season. Directed by Lorraine Brooks, this thought-provoking play tackles some tough subject matters and really makes you stop and think about perception,

A Few Good Men at Lumina Theatre Company

Reviews November 23, 2024 Erin Klarner

author: Erin Klarner

A Few Good Men – the 1989 play by Aaron Sorkin which he adapted into the famous screenplay – is visiting the Howard County Arts Center for a limited one-weekend run in their black box theater, directed by Meghan Hackett of the Lumina Theatre Company. And it is well worth making time in your weekend to see.

With many short scenes, it is important to keep scene transitions quick so that the pace doesn’t get bogged down and lose the audience’s interest.