Articles Tagged With: Aparna Sri

Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews July 27, 2026 Ryan J Bordenski

author: Ryan J. Bordenski

Love is in the air, but so is deceit, mockery, adultery, the withholding of information, lies, and…uh…dental procedures? But don’t worry; this is a comedy so everything will be funny and fine in the end, right?! Of course, I am talking about Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre. This farcical and comedic play by Bernard Slade tells the story of four unique and awkward couples who have separate chance encounters and trysts,

The Heidi Chronicles at Vagabond Players

Reviews April 11, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

You either shave your legs or you don’t. Radical, albeit limited, that approach to feminism circa the 70’s. And we’d like to think we’ve come so very far from that myopic viewpoint and the circumstances that forced it into existence in the first place. We’d like to think. And there’s plenty to think about— drink in, really— when you catch the penultimate production of the Vagabond Players 110th season— Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles.

An Ideal Husband at The Colonial Players

Reviews September 6, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

You are cordially invited to the final dress ball of London’s 1894 season hosted at the illustrious grand estate of Sir Robert Chiltern. Do come prepared to gossip, scandalize, and be gossiped and scandalized about.

Translation? The Colonial Players of Annapolis is kicking off their 77th season (Time & Transformation) with a production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, directed by Greg Jones. While not as farcical or tickling as The Importance of Being Earnest,

Deathtrap at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews November 15, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Oh the weather outside is frightful— truly, we just finished having 80º days in mid-November— but the fire is so delightful— and it is, it looks so realistic you might think those are actual manuscripts going up in smoke— and they’re finally open so you can cheer and claps— go to Spots, go to see Deathtrap. The nature of live theatre being what it is, the grand opening of this Ira Levin stage thriller under the superb direction of Stephen Foreman,

Out of the Blue at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews September 13, 2024 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

Where Were You when The World Stopped Turning: Out of The Blue at Laurel Mill Players

“September 11th, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.”

– Geraldine Brooks

Everyone remembers where they were on that blue cloudless day in September when the Twin Towers fell,

Aparna Sri (left) as Lady Macbeth and Jaki Demarest (right) as Macbeth ???? Constantia Rioux

Macbeth at The Rude Mechanicals

Reviews February 4, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

“Such welcome and unwelcome things at once ‘tis hard to reconcile.” Macduff, ActIVsc.iii

I spent hours trying to find the way I felt about the current Rude Mechanical’s production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth only to have Billy Bard having already wrapped it up for me more than halfway through the show. This particular production is a balancing act of strong performances, questionable conceptualizations, impressive technological inclusions, mismatched aesthetics, and a barrage of death,

Ill Met By Moonlight at The Rude Mechanicals

Reviews September 1, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther 2 Comments

What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here? Tis a crew of Rude Mechanicals and they indeed find themselves Ill Met By Moonlight. Some six years in the making, TRM finally gets to bring their dream production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to light. UV light, that is. Playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center through September 9th 2023 and Directed by Joshua Engel, this judiciously rendered production of Midsummer is not your grandfolks’ fairy-tale.