Articles Tagged With: Davis Wootton-Klebanoff

City of Angels at Colonial Players: Nathanael Quay (center) as Stine with (l to r) Kasey Colligan as Oolie, Erica Miller as Alura, and Shelly Work as Bobbi đź“· Brandon Bentley

City of Angels at Colonial Players

People never see themselves as other people write them. And when you write them walking into a tangled web of film-noir meets golden-aged Hollywood with musical theatre camp and coziness all cuddled up together on the squarish stage of Colonial Players, well that’s one script you just have to see to believe. City of Angels— that rarely produced hybrid gem of show-inside-a-show like a nesting doll of page-to-screen-to-stage— is now playing as the penultimate production of the 77th season at Colonial Players of Annapolis.

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L to R: AnnaBelle Auguste as Cinderella; Liz Mulligan as The Baker's Wife; Willie Hadnot, Jr. as Rapunzel's Prince; Imani Corbin as Little Red Ridinghood; Ryan Power as The Baker; Davis Wootten-Klebanoff as Cinderella's Prince đź“· Nate Jackson Photography

Into The Woods at 2nd Star Productions

author: Chris Pence

Something in the Glade There: Into The Woods at 2nd Star Productions

We all remember those classic fairy tales from our childhoods, always ending with “Happily Ever After.” But what happens after Happily Ever After? Into The Woods ventures into the forest of our feelings and yearns to determine what exactly we’re saying when we mutter “I wish” to the brightest evening star.

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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf at 2nd Star Productions đź“· Nate Jackson Photography

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf at 2nd Star Productions

author: Anthony Case

There is a lot to say about the play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Nzotake Shange. The play, or choreopoem as she put it, was written in 1977 and has become a legendary text in black theater. Its exploration of the trials and joys and hardships of being both black and a woman in America has spoken strongly to black women,

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Big Fish at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre

What if I told you— you could change the world with just one thought? I think the thought you might think would be “please let me somehow get my hands on some tickets to see Big Fish at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre.” And it’s going to take a miracle to get your hands on those because the run is sold out. And rightfully so, the show itself is stupendous, thoroughly engaging, emotionally invested,

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Sweeney Todd at The Heritage Players

Attend the tale of Sweeney
Todd
. The opening line should be enough to entice anyone to visit this dark
and bloody Sondheim event at The Heritage Players. The second in their annual “musical
theatre concert” series, this year’s devious stage offering is none other than
the bloody demon barber of fleet street. Sweeney
Todd
, Directed by John Gary Pullen with Musical Direction by David Zajic,
and Vocal Direction by Sharen Camille,

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