Articles Tagged With: Marge McGugan

Assassins at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews April 6, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

Free country: means your dreams can come true here. Right?

Not exactly an accurate reflection of the country in which we currently live. And if anyone tries to tell you that politics don’t belong in theatre and you believe them? I’ve got some oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell you. Once belonged to Abraham Lincoln too. It’s a fiery, unprecedented world in which we currently live and Laurel Mill Playhouse is stepping up to the plate with their current production of Stephen Sondeheim’s Assassins,

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews February 25, 2026 Rick Bergmann

author: Rick Bergmann

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Balances Screwball Comedy and Sharp Cultural Reckoning

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, now showing at Laurel Mill Playhouse, sets out to do a lot—and nearly pulls it off. First produced in 2011, the play examines the legacy of African Americans in Hollywood, skewering racial stereotypes while reveling in the conventions of classic cinema and theater.

The Hollow at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews November 3, 2025 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

The Worshipper: The Hollow at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Love is murder, though who’s the killer? The Queen of Mystery reigns supreme as Laurel Mill Playhouse presents Agatha Christie’s The Hollow, a weekend romp through the countryside that brings love, lust, intrigue, and murder. Produced by Laurel Mill’s own Queen of Mystery, Maureen Rogers, The Hollow is one of Christie’s lesser-known stories, though it still packs all the same classic twists and turns that made Christie one of the world’s most famous writers.

Four Old Broads at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews September 15, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Grab your turbo-strength girdle! Put your teeth in! And pull-up those big-girl panties! Because all hell’s about to break loose at the Magnolia Place Senior Living Home! But before we let the broads loose on the audience for approximately two and a half hour’s stage traffic, we should take down the particulars! Laurel Mill Playhouse is the where! This upcoming weekend (September 19th, 20th, and 21st 2025) is the when! (Also 8:00pm on Friday &

Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews March 20, 2025 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

A Rose By Any Other Name: Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse

“Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.”1 It’s the classic tale of love and loss, hate and betrayal, ancient grudges to new mutiny, “[w]here civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”1 Jacqueline Youm breathes new life into the tale as old as time itself with Romeo &

Fires in the Mirror at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Reviews February 10, 2025 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

The More Things Change: “Fires in the Mirror” at Laurel Mill Playhouse

What defines us, and what defines our views of the world? Is it our race? Gender? Religion? Culture? The community in which we live, or to which we belong? Laurel Mill Playhouse gives us a moment to reflect on these and many more questions in presenting Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights,

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,

Escape to Margaritaville at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre

Reviews July 17, 2024 Mark Briner

author: Mark Briner

City life in the Metropolitan DC to Baltimore corridor can be harsh. We’re pulled in a hundred directions by work, family, and myriads of other obligations when sometimes just want to unplug, relax, and run away from it all. The good news is it doesn’t matter where you are or what time it is because, as they say on Island time, “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”, and this month, that magical hour is tucked away in the heart of downtown historic Annapolis in a courtyard inside a little historic building right on the harbor amidst the multitude of docked yachts and rooftop bars.

Daniel Dausman (left) as the Scarecrow and Marianne Virnelson (right) as Scraps ???? Andy Culhane

The Patchwork Girl Of Oz at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews June 23, 2023 Alan Duda

The Woozy and Yoop and Mangaboos – Oh My!

The Patchwork Girl of Oz is L. Frank Baum’s seventh book in the series. Dr. Pipt brings to life Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, but accidentally petrifies Unc Nunkie. So, along with Ojo the Unlucky, Scraps sets off on a component quest to find the remedy and meet and make many friends along the way. Don’t worry if you can’t at first remember the list of items they need to find,

Newsies at Mount Saint Joseph High School

Reviews April 24, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Now is the time to seize the day! After over a year of live-theatre being suspended due to the Covid-19 Global Pandemic, the world is slowly starting to open up again and that includes the stage. And the stage at Mount Saint Joseph High School with their three-performance production of Disney’s Newsies. Directed by Michael V. Hartsfield with Musical Direction by Susan Esserwein and Choreography by Katie Sheldon and Brook Urquhart, this energizing tale of Newsboys on strike for their rights as working members of society is a fantastic way to welcome audiences back to the stage after such long,