Articles Tagged With: Jessie Duggan

Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews July 27, 2026 Ryan J Bordenski

author: Ryan J. Bordenski

Love is in the air, but so is deceit, mockery, adultery, the withholding of information, lies, and…uh…dental procedures? But don’t worry; this is a comedy so everything will be funny and fine in the end, right?! Of course, I am talking about Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre. This farcical and comedic play by Bernard Slade tells the story of four unique and awkward couples who have separate chance encounters and trysts,

Web Of Murder at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews November 7, 2025 Cybele Pomeroy

author: Cybele Pomeroy

Web of Murder of Bowie Community Theatre: Killer comedy? Or comedy killed?

Really, this show should slay you in your seat. It’s a cozy little Victorian scenario, with all the tropes you’d expect, including lots of doors for popping in and out of, a set decorated to within an inch of its two-by-four life, an eight-member multi-generational cast, dogs, secret passageways, supernatural trances and enough villainous intent to fill an Orient Express.

Black Comedy at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews June 8, 2025 Stephen Duda

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.

No Laughing Matter at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews February 25, 2025 Leonard Taube

author: Leonard Taube

Feel like a laugh? Want to get away from it all for a bit? Got the urge to guffaw? If you answer yes to all those questions, consider taking a field trip to the Roosevelt Center in historic Greenbelt where The Greenbelt Arts Center is putting on an original play entitled No Laughing Matter by local playwright Jeff Dunne. But don’t let the title fool you. This show is all about laughter and believe me there are laughs aplenty from the opening scene till curtain call.

Jessie Duggan (left) as Sylvia and Brian Binney (right) as Greg in Sylvia at Laurel Mill Playhouse ???? Cassidee Grunwald

Going to the Dogs: Sylvia at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews September 9, 2024 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

Ever wonder what your dog is thinking? How they feel about your love for them? How about how your love for your dog might impact your significant other? With A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Laurel Mill Playhouse examines all these questions and more, delving deep into the meaning of relationships, both human and animal.

Premiering off-Broadway in 1995, the play follows a stray dog named Sylvia as she is adopted by Greg,

The Game’s Afoot at Cockpit In Court

Reviews June 13, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Everyone wants publicity, daaahlings. Even the bad kind is the good kind, because any kind beats no kind, right? Lucky for Thomas “Toby” Hessenauer and the company of Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot it’s the good kind. Mostly. I’m no Daria Chase, daaahlings, but for God’s sake, I am a theatre critic. Launching the ‘upstairs’ half of the upstairs-downstairs-summertime-palooza that we all know to be Cockpit in Court, this zany little Baskerville-wannabe is two parts mystery,

Jessie Duggan (left) as Karly and Britt Martin (right) as Laura. ????Jessie Duggan and Samantha Murray

Whose Wives Are They Anyway? at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore

Reviews February 17, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

I don’t believe it! There’s an American farce!? And it’s here in Baltimore!?!? With a first-time director and at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore!? I don’t believe it! Well, believe it! Because Whose Wives Are The Anyway? an American farce written by Michael Parker is here for a two-weekend engagement with Artistic Synergy and its being directed by first-time-director Cory Bauer. It’s an antics-loaded, shenanigans-laced nonsense show that will certain have you chuckling as the characters trip over one another,

Moon Over Buffalo at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews October 31, 2019 Mike Zellhofer

Ken Ludwig’sMoon Over Buffalo is the second installment from Spotlighters
Theatre’s 58th season. If you are looking for some gut chuckling, tears
down your cheeks humor, then you won’t want to miss this show. Director Brandon
Richards has mentored his cast through door slamming, side splitting hysterics that
will keep you laughing all the way home.

Shealyn Jae Photography Moon Over Buffalo at Spotlighters Theatre. Photo: Shealyn Jae Photography

The first thing you notice upon
entering the theatre is the very cozy and well-designed set of Sam Martin.

The Wild Party at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews August 31, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

Queenie was a blonde.

And Burrs will make you happy.

And Kate is the life of the party.

And maybe they like it that way.

They’re raising the roof over at The Greenbelt Arts Center with their wild, wild party. Not just any party, but Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, directed by Jeffrey Lesniak with Musical Direction by Elizabeth Alford, and Choreography by Rikki Lacewell.

Boeing Boeing at The Heritage Players

Reviews May 4, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s all about the time tables! You’ve got to get yourself a
time table! Check your time tables and you’ll see that they’re telling you it’s
time to board Flight-519 on Heritage Airlines and enjoy their in-flight
entertainment: Boeing Boeing by Marc
Camoletti. Directed by Ryan Geiger, this flight-based French farce will whisk
audiences away to Paris, France circa 1962 and give them an inside look at an
American bachelor in Paris who has landed himself a fiancée.

The Toxic Avenger at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews November 3, 2018 Holly Trout

The Toxic Avenger, directed by Jeffery Lesniak, is a musical based on the movie of the same name and both a playful parody of the superhero genre and of conventional musical theatre sensibilities. The plot revolves around a toxic dump of a fictional New Jersey town called Tromaville and its dark knight—Melvin Ferd the Third, a sweet, stereotypical nerd with a crush on his pretty (and blind—beware there are a lot of blind jokes that get old quickly) librarian friend Sarah and deep-seated convictions about cleaning up the town and calling out the corrupt mayor Babs Belgoody.