Articles Tagged With: Joey Rolandelli

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at The St. Gabriel Miracle Players

News May 15, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

In the end, there’s quite a prize if you can see with more than your eyes. And you’ll have to bring more than just your peepers along for the ride if you truly want to experience Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at St. Gabriel’s Miracle Players. You’ll need to bring your— IMAGINATION! Based on the novel by Roald Dahl, this newer musical theatre adaptation has more grizzly outcomes for the children as they traverse their way through Wonka’s chocolate factory and The Miracle Players are doing the best they can to bring you wonder,

Peter & The Starcatcher

Reviews July 23, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

What if there was a play that could make you see how the world could be instead of the way that it is? Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning. Though not quite. A little before that. Before that? You ask? Inconceivable! Wrong. Think again. Before there was the Pan as we know him, all green-clad and crowing, flying and taunting the infamous Captain Hook, there was a nameless boy…a perhaps even a lost boy,

Kim Bessler (left) as Abby with Amanda Matousek (center) as Teddy and Joanne Bauer (right) as Martha in BTC's Arsenic & Old Lace ???? Reed Sigmon

Arsenic & Old Lace at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews August 19, 2024 Chris Pence

A Spoonful of Wine Helps The Poison Go Down: Arsenic & Old Lace at Bowie Community Theare

author: Chris Pence

Don’t drink the wine at Bowie Community Theatre! Joseph Kesselring’s 1939 classic black comedy Arsenic & Old Lace follows Mortimer Brewster, a theatre critic who comes home to 1930’s Brooklyn to announce to his beloved Aunts Abby and Martha that he’s engaged to Elaine Harper,

Merrily We Roll Along at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews January 16, 2024 Stephen Duda

When Director Roy Hammond got the rights for Merrily We Roll Along in 2019, little did he know a pandemic and some Broadway wizardry would interfere. But it’s up! And it’s amazing! This 1981 musical covers the trials and tribulations of three artistic friends … backwards … starting with their ultimate breakup and ending with the hopeful youths staring up on a roof in October 1957. Being Sondheim, you’ll be hard pressed to whistle a melody on the way home,

(L to R) Cheryl Thompson as Cynthia, Brian Binney as Stan, Rose Talbot as Jessie, and Pamela Northrup as Tracey in Sweat. ????2nd Star Productions

Sweat at 2nd Star Productions

Reviews August 24, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Nostalgia is a disease. Sounds bitter and jaded, right? Or maybe it’s a lens of reality that should be more closely examined— lingering too long in the past can make it difficult to progress into the future. 2nd Star Productions, in shared residence at Bowie Playhouse, is currently producing Sweat, written by the Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright, Lynn Nottage. Directed by Miss Cody Jones, the play itself is a powerful social commentary about classism,

The Sound of Music at St. Gabriel Miracle Players

Reviews May 12, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

St. Gabriel Miracle Players is alive!! With The Sound of Music! After two long years of waiting (and growing up!) the seven sweet von Trapp children are ready to sing their hearts out, and while they’ve grown a little taller and a little older (waiting for that pesky Covid to die down and let live musical theatre safely return to the stage) they’re bringing all the iconic songs of stage and screen to heartwarming life,

Return to the Forbidden Planet at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews May 23, 2018 Rachel Zirkin Duda

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a young man named William Shakespeare who was a huge science fiction playwright. No, wait. That’s not right. Let’s try that again. There was once a man named Bob Carlton, who penned a science fiction play called Return to the Forbidden Planet, an homage to the classic works of William Shakespeare – and of course the classic 1956 film,

Something’s Afoot at Third Wall Productions

Reviews October 7, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

You’ve been invited to a marvelous weekend! Aren’t you lucky to all be at Third Wall Productions’ Something’s Afoot? You’re stimulated by the music in the air, there’s murderous mayhem everywhere! Some dazzling costumes with flash and flare! And watch out you don’t get grabbed on your derrière! It’s a remarkably humorous and uplifting production, despite the fact that the bodies are piling up in the library by the dozen! Directed by Mea Holloway with Musical Direction by W.

Review: Once Upon a Mattress at St. Gabriel Miracle Players

Reviews May 8, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

A genuine princess is exceedingly rare. A genuine fairytale is exceptionally brilliant. Having both together on one stage for a musical is nothing short of a miracle. The Saint Gabriel Miracle Players have found such a miracle with the tremendously talented cast and design team of their current production of Once Upon a Mattress. A rare treat to have such a silly story told with such stellar vocal quality; the music and lyrics of Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer come to whimsical fruition against Jay Thompson and Dean Fuller’s book— there’s a happily ever after waiting for theatergoers who enjoy sparkling singers and gorgeous costumes.