Articles Tagged With: Jean Rosolino

The Crucible at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

We are here to discover what no one has ever seen.

And The Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s penultimate mainstage production of 2025/2026— Arthur Miller’s The Crucible— is unlike any Crucible you’ve ever seen before. It’s a disquietingly innovative hot-take on the production that universally presents it as an everyman tale, wholly investing the ensemble in the story’s narrative burden whilst simultaneously reflecting the harsh reality of the present-day world in which we live— but subtly,

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Craft Town at The Maryland Ensemble Theatre

They come across my inbox like they always do; a cool drink of water— code for ‘new play’— just asking to be looked over. Not in distress or nothing, see? These ‘new works’ they hold their own. But I wouldn’t be a very good T.I. if I didn’t give it a once over, now would I. T.I.? What’s that? You don’t know? Theatrical Investigator. That’s me— Amanda Gunther, T.I. – and this new one— Craft Town?

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L to R: Jean Rosolino as Mom, Evan Crump as Gary, Kathleen Barth as Wendy, Abigail Weinel as Karen, and Mickey Trimarchi as Dad in On The Farce Day of Christmas. Photo: Elizabeth Kemmerer.

On The Farce Day of Christmas at Best Medicine Rep

“Any holiday that forces families to get together is evil.” The latest of quotable nonsense from acclaimed entertainment-writer Ken Levine. This time its from his new work, On The Farce Day of Christmas, now appearing live on stage (with streaming options!) at Best Medicine Rep Theatre in Gaithersburg. Directed by Ken Levine, this holiday hilarity is quite the cute little comedy and will tickle your funny bone just in time for the never-ending December holiday season,

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