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Damn Yankees at Cockpit In Court

Reviews June 17, 2025 Leonard Taube Leave a comment

author: Leonard Taube

Anyone ever get so angry with you that they’ve told you to “Go to the devil!”? Well, now you can (so-to-speak) and enjoy the trip as well! Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre (in residence at CCBC Essex) is currently putting on the 1955 musical comedy Damn Yankees. With a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Damn Yankees is set during the 1950’s during a time when the New York Yankees dominated major league baseball.

Black Comedy at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews June 8, 2025 Stephen Duda Leave a comment

author: Alan Duda & Stephen Duda

I gotta’ admit, I came into this show blind. I initially felt left in the dark at the opening scene’s light levels, but since the play is called Black Comedy I figured I’d wait to see why. I should have been clued in by the director Lori Bruun coming onto the fully lit stage for the show announcements and asking for a spotlight, whereupon the lights changed to place her in the dark.

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 📷 Nate Jackson Photography

Into The Woods at 2nd Star Productions

Reviews June 4, 2025 Chris Pence Leave a comment

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.

Picasso at the Lapine Agile at Vagabond Players

Reviews June 2, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Et ce tableau n’est pas dans cette pièce. Mais je voulais voir qui parle français et qui connaît l’art. Pas moi! Je doute que vous le fassiez non plus. Heureusement pour nous deux, Picasso à la Lapine Agile is in English. And it’s now appearing at The Vagabond Players as the final show of their 109th season (continuously operating too!) Directed by Stephen Deininger, this oddly quirky, witty play— written by Steve Martin— that is at times deeply profound and at other times completely off-the-wall,

Clyde’s at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

Reviews May 17, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

You never what you’re going to do when you meet the devil at the crossroads. Offer him a sandwich maybe? But does the perfect sandwich exist? Can it be created? A spicy egg salad with avocado-mayo and Greek-yogurt, with a garlic-zaatar aioli, fresh crisp romaine lettuce, sharp and pungent Manchego cheese, the ripest, firmest tomato, and fresh basil leaves on a toasted thyme and olive ciabatta. With a fresh parsley garnish on top. Pickle on the side.

Falsettos at Keegan Theatre

Reviews May 12, 2025 Steven Kirkpatrick & Charles Boyington Steven Kirkpatrick & Charles Boyington Leave a comment

author: Steven Kirkpatrick & Charles Boyington

Running at the Keegan Theatre from May 10 to June 15, Falsettos is a clever, emotionally resonant musical whose themes center on Jewish family and gay life in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At its center is the conflicted Marvin (John Loughney), a gay man who introduces us in an early sequence to his lover, Whizzer (Kaylen Morgan), and his ex-wife, Trina (Katie McManus),

Phantom and Elephants and Gatsby, Oh My! Talking with Ron Legler on The Hippodrome’s 2025/2026 Season Featuring Three National Tour Launches

Interviews February 5, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Just when you thought Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre couldn’t get any more exciting for the 2025/2026 season— after announcing that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera will be launching its National Tour right from the heart of Charm City in November of 2025— the whole rest of the season announcement has dropped and it’s a glitter bomb of spectacular proportions! Three National Tour launches— not one, not two, but THREE. Seven extraordinary shows;

He’s Here: The Phantom of The Opera- A Quick Chat with Ron Legler about Phantom of The Opera’s 2025 National Tour Launching from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre

Interviews November 14, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Fondest Greetings, Good Monsieurs…did you think that I had left you for good?

We’ve been waiting. Since Sunday April 16th 2023…when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera played its final performance at The Majestic Theatre on Broadway. After 35 years and 13,981 performances (marking it as the longest running musical in Broadway’ illustrious history), there was a darkness that overtook The Great White Way, though not without the promise of a return…and that return has finally arrived.

Spotlight on Street Lamp Productions: 10th Season Announcement

News September 7, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Nice work, if you can get it and if you’ve got, flaunt it and all that jazz? Musical theatre— it’s that labor of love, that essence of existence for so many— and at the end of the day, it’s no small feat to have a small, grassroots theatre organization make it to its tenth anniversary season! Street Lamp Productions— the main operating umbrella for Street Lamp Community Theatre, Street Lamp Performing Arts Academy, and Street Lamp Arts Academy Teen Pre Professional Group— has a whole bunch of exciting and thrilling news to announce for their tenth anniversary season!