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author: Ryan J. Bordenski
Do you love angst and grunge fashion of the early 2000s? Do you love putting on layers upon layers of eyeliner? Do you love banging and bopping your head along to some punk rock anthems? Or, do you simply love Billy Joe Armstrong, and the rest of Green Day? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then you should head over to Silhouette Stages in Columbia for their latest production of Green Day’s American Idiot.
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.
In a time where we are stuck in the middle of acceptance and ignorance, Making Advances has a wonderful look into the lives of different individuals who don’t fit the norm of gender and sexuality that society preaches. The entirety of the play involves short but impactful scenes that range from a male to female transgender girl trying to involve her mother in the difficulties of transitioning, a polyamorous relationship between two males and a female,
Everybody get up! Everybody jump! Everybody bump everybody in the rump! That’s right, you cavalcade of theatergoing weirdos! Red Branch Theatre Company likes to MOVE IT, MOVE IT! They like to MOVE IT, MOVE IT! They like to MOVE IT, MOVE IT! They like to— MOVE IT! And their production of Madagascar: A Musical Adventure is moving its way right onto the stage as their holiday offering this December. When dozens of other theatres in and around the metropolitan areas of Washington DC and Baltimore are offering up Dickens twisted every which way,
Oh, citizens of Columbia! What can a theatre give but love, love, love? And what can theatergoers do but watch, watch, watch? All’s fair in love in war at Red Branch Theatre Company as they bring the zany, high-octane musical Lysistrata Jones to their stage to jumpstart the back-half of the 2017 season! Directed by Stephanie Lynn Williams with Musical Direction by Dustin Merrell, this modern musical adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is a summer sizzler fierier than the heat of Hades!