Articles Tagged With: Christine Mosere

Emma Justine Roeder (left) as Cecily and Elena Echeandia (right) as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest at ESP Theatre 📷 Michael Mason Studios

The Importance of Being Earnest at Endangered Species Theatre Project

Reviews July 29, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

The very essence of romance is uncertainty! Will they? Won’t they? Is it a Happily-Ever-After? Join The Endangered Species Theatre Project as they embark down the well-worn theatrical path of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest this summer as a part of the Frederick Shakespeare Festival. Co-Directed by Christine Mosere and Kayla Swain, there’s some giddiness abound in this indoor-festival production.

Part of this production’s challenge is the overall pacing,

Steven Todd Smith (lapped) as Hotspur and Maureen O'Neal (holding) as Lady Percy in a micro-scene from Henry IV Part 1 at the opening ceremony for the 8th annual Frederick Shakespeare Festival. 📷 Mandy Gunther

All O’ Frederick’s A Stage: And Unstrung Harpist, ESP, and Ardeo its Players

News June 30, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

‘Zounds, I will speak of it; and let my soul want mercy, if I do not join with them!

And speak on’t I shall. Borrowing some words in true wordsmith fashion, a call to attend! Attend thyselves upon this festival of merriment, this festival of drawn-daggers and teacups (every family has one) and knavery and bloody history and comedy and tragedy and all! Tis true— tis The Frederick Shakespeare Festival upon which I dote and dare speak (and will be waiting for two of the directors to flounce me round the ears for my bastardization of Shakespeare’s tongue,

While You Live Tell Truth and Shame The Devil: An Interview with Evan Crump and Aaron Angello {mostly} on Henry IV Pt1 (and also a lil Much Ado)

Interviews June 26, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

For let them be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade (and indoor air-conditioning!) minions of the moon! Said Falstaff, Act I Scene ii, more or less. In a TheatreBloom sit-down, we’re chit-chatting all around the moon minions— or at least with two of them— Evan Crump, Artistic Director of Unstrung Harpist and director of Henry IV Part I, and Aaron Angello, Co-Artistic Director of Ardeo Theatre Company and director of Much Ado About Nothing— AND they’re both acting in each other’s Shakespeare offerings in the 2026 Frederick Shakespeare Festival!

Bus Buddies at Endangered Species Theatre Project

News April 14, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

You ever ridden a bus? Taken it just because it was there? Or maybe you’re one of those regulars who depends upon the bus route for your day-to-day operations? Maybe you get to know the people on the bus as a part of your community, they become like your family, and are woven into your story as much as your daily cup of coffee? That’s the notion or at least the essence that playwright Nancy Luse is aiming for with her new work Bus Buddies,

Macbeth at Endangered Species Theatre Project 📷 Sam White

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Macbeth bloodies Frederick at Endangered Species Theatre Project

News January 9, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

By the pricking of my thumb… a wicked new year does this way come!

Not exactly what Shakespeare had in mind, but the dude had a lot going on with thumbs. I mean biting them started a whole street brawl in that other bloody tragedy, so why shouldn’t pricking them bring about the end of days? Seems par for the course with the country’s current climate. What better way to welcome the new year than with a production of the bloody and iconic,

The Canterville Ghost at Endangered Species Theatre Project

Reviews October 20, 2025 Ashley Gerhardt

author: Ashley Gerhardt

Endangered Species Theatre Project is back again with their fall production of The Canterville Ghost. A Short story written by Oscar Wilde in 1887 and adapted for the stage by Anne Raugh, Deanna Kinzie, and Christine Mosere. I was lucky enough to catch this show on Oscar Wilde’s actual birthday, and boy oh boy am I glad I did! This delightful story of an American family who moves into an English manor set the late 1800’s is charming,

Indecent at Endangered Species Theatre Project

Reviews November 23, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

You go to the theatre for a little relief, to be a community of people who laugh together. Or perhaps in this case, clutch their hands to their hearts and cry together. God of Vengeance, a real play by Sholem Asch, written in 1906, was surrounded by controversy, and on March 8th 1923, the Broadway production was cut short when the entire cast, producer, and one of the theatre owners were arrested and indicted (and later convicted) on charges of obscenity…of indecency.

Gillian Shelly (center) as Edna Pontellier and the ensemble of The Awakening with Endangered Species Theatre Project ???? Madeline Reinhold

The Awakening at Endangered Species (Theatre) Project

Reviews April 19, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Resolved to never belong to anyone but herself, Edna Pontellier controlled her own destiny.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Picture it. A balmy, breezy, almost tropical evening on Grand Isle. Louisiana Gulf. Cottages. 1890’s. Summertime. Can you feel the sea breeze blowing in? Smell the scent of the water? Can you hear the French Creole dialect running thick like Cajun gumbo through the words that get spoken? You’ll picture it a whole lot better if you slip on over to Endangered Species Theatre Project this April to experience their extraordinary production of Rebecca Chace’s The Awakening.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Endangered Species (theatre) Project

Reviews July 24, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

This green plot shall be their stage! And by this, tis meant
the Hodson Outdoor Theatre of Hood College, unless of course it rains, and then
there’s an indoor option, but speak not, yet mortals, of tempests— that’s
another Shakespeare altogether! Think instead upon the season, the season of
midsummer, and attend ye well to the first-annual Frederick Shakespeare
Festival, presenting productions by Endangered Species (theatre) Project, and
in this case the production be A Midsummer Night’s Dream.