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Luck Be A Lady: Interviewing Big Jule & Harry The Horse with Tidewater Players’ Guys & Dolls

Interviews April 29, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky— you can bet that he’s doin’ it for some doll! Call it hell, call it heaven, it’s a probable twelve-to-seven that this interview series is featurin’ some Guys & Dolls! We’ve got the horse right here…several of them in fact! And we’ll bet you a thousand big ones that you ain’t heard some of the fun things coming out of these Tidewater Players’ actors’ mouths before!

Bump at Colonial Players of Annapolis

Reviews April 29, 2025 Lucille Blumberg Leave a comment

author: Lucille Blumberg

“Man plans, God laughs.” It’s a sentiment that lingers long after the final blackout of Colonial Players’ Bump, a heartfelt, sharply insightful, and quietly profound exploration of childbirth across centuries and circumstances. Bump isn’t just about pregnancy—it’s about the plans people make, the expectations they cling to, and the unpredictable, beautiful, chaotic truth of how life enters the world anyway. Audiences left the theater reminded of how universal and individual this experience is—and how stories,

Devon Hadsell as Minnie in Some Like It Hot 📷 Matthew Murphy

Tonight The Heat Comes From Below: Let’s Be Bad with Devon Hadsell, playing Minnie in Some Like It Hot

Interviews April 28, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Are you ready to be bad, Baltimore? Because the National touring production of Some Like It Hot is coming in hot and ready to shake up Charm City this May! In a quick phone interview with Devon Hadsell, playing Minnie on the tour, we get a full scope of why this show is so darn hot and fun!

Hello, Devon! Thank you so much for taking my call; we’re so excited to chat with you!

Rent at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews April 28, 2025 Leonard Taube Leave a comment

author: Leonard Taube

I could give you 525,600 reasons to go see Laurel Mill Playhouse’s production of RENT but that would be silly. So, I’ll give you one. How about love?

Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece chronicles the lives of several struggling young artists/activists/musicians in New York set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic. With roots loosely in the 1896 opera La Boheme, Larson’s tale is set in the then-thriving Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in New York.

(L to R) Graduating Seniors of Children's Playhouse of Maryland's Rent- Callie Fey, Bella Comotto, Xander Bell, Callum Howard, and Amelia Grace Watts

525,600 Minutes: How The Graduating Seniors of Children’s Playhouse of Maryland Measure Their Year with Rent

Interviews April 25, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife…in graduations. 525,600 minutes, how do you measure— a year in your life? Five of Children’s Playhouse of Maryland’s graduating seniors are measuring out their final year with the program by taking part in Rent (school edition) as their final senior show with the company. We’ve sat down with these five rising talents as they’re about to bid CPM a fond farewell to hear what they’ve had to say about the experience.

The cast of Steel Magnolias at Just Off Broadway

Laughter Through Tears: The Women of Just-Off Broadway’s Steel Magnolias

Interviews April 23, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Wouldn’t you rather have 30 minutes of wonderful rather than a lifetime of nothing special? Well, this interview took about 50 minutes (and for a Al Herlinger cast that’s short!) but it was certainly wonderful and special. Sitting down with the six talented women of Just Off Broadway’s upcoming production of Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias, we’ve done a deep-dive into what it’s like for these six women— mostly strangers to one another,

In The Heights at Signature Theatre

Reviews February 20, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

With patience and faith we remain unafraid; Paciencia y fe! A more profound message could not be more true in our current climate where joy is in short supply, the future is questionable, and every day we wonder what terrifying headline will cross our news feeds. Lighting up the night sky with their emotionally illuminating production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, Signature Theatre is sending this love-letter from the Washington Heights Barrio out to the world of Northern Virgina,

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!

Season of WOW: An Interview with Ron Legler talking about the 2024/2025 Broadway Hippodrome Season

Interviews January 27, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

The sun’ll come out— TOMORROW! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow— they’ll be— A Lion!?

Charm City is packing its Bromo-Seltzer Arts District with some of the hottest tickets in town for the 2024/2025 Hippodrome Broadway Series, powered by CareFirst. With not one but TWO National Tour launches, compliments of some hard-earned tax-credits now working in the state of Maryland (by way of Governor Wes Moore and the Maryland State Legislature), several shows direct from Broadway (or in some cases— still currently on Broadway) and a whole bunch of fun for everyone,