Articles Tagged With: Small Town Stars

Something Rotten at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 2, 2025 Andrew Worthington

author: Andrew Worthington

Gracing the stage at the Carroll Arts Center this weekend is a thoroughly entertaining, hilarious, and delightfully chaotic production of Something Rotten! presented by Small Town Stars Theatre Company. Something Rotten!, first performed in 2015, is a modern musical comedy that focuses on two brothers competing with THE William Shakespeare as they work to create the world’s first musical… in the 1590s. With a blend of many musical references and styles that theatre-going audiences will recognize alongside a fast-moving and comedic script,

Falsettos at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews August 29, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

I’m neurotic. He’s neurotic. They’re neurotic. We’re neurotic. Though honestly? Life is moments you can’t understand. And I truly never thought that in almost a decade and a half of reviewing live theatre that Falsettos would be on my “I’ve seen it half a dozen or so times” list. (Let’s be real here, it isn’t Shrek or Les Mis, not to say that it isn’t important, it’s just sort of an underdog-cult-following type show.) I can’t understand it,

Into The Woods at Small Town Stars Theatre

Reviews June 14, 2025 Andrew Worthington

author: Andrew Worthington

One midnight gone!

Just a short journey northwest of Charm City is an equally charming production of Into the Woods at Small Town Stars Theatre Company in the heart of Westminster, MD. Small Town Stars, founded in 2015, has been building its repertoire of major musicals, plays, and student productions. Now, as their program has grown, they are taking Carroll County audiences on another Sondheim journey with their current production of Into the Woods.

Tia Silver (left) as Fastrada, Dani Rizzo (center) as Leading Player, and Alex Gibbs (right) with the ensemble of Pippin at Small Town Stars Theatre Company 📷 Mort Shuman

Pippin at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews January 25, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you like the way dreams stick to the sky? Are you ready to run where you can ramble? Then you’re ready for Pippin with Small Town Starts Theatre Company. Come journey with them through their anecdotic revue of Stephen Schwartz (music & lyrics), Roger O. Hirson (book) and Bob Fosse (also book) because STSTC has magic to do…and it’s just for you! Directed by Joel Roberson with Musical Direction by Kelly Stoneberger and Choreography by Olivia Winter,

The Crucible at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 25, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

I cannot blink what I saw. And the eerie sensations of how relevant ‘misinformation’ and its wildfire-level of spread still is in this day and age is unsettling, which makes Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a perfectly chilling tale for October. And Small Town Stars Theatre Company will do you one better. They’re presenting The Crucible outdoors. Directed by Cecelia Boynton, this dark drama is eerily relevant to the world today— as we are taught not to question the court,

American Idiot at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews June 21, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

author: Amanda N. Gunther

They’ve taken the photographs and still-frames in their mind and hung them on a shelf— well, a stage— in good health and good times… Small Town Stars Theatre Company is putting tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial with their striking and impressive production of Green Day’s American Idiot. Directed by Miranda Secula-Rosell (with Assistant Director Erik Secula) with Vocal Direction by Jude Sims, and Choreography by Delaney Goodwin &

Nathan Russell (left) as Sweeney Todd and Kelly Stoneberger (right) as Mrs. Lovette at Small Town Stars Theatre Company. ????Mort Shuman

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 20, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

No one can help. Nothing can hide you. Isn’t that Sweeney there beside you? Sweeney— Sweeney— there— there! There! THERE! And if you’re in the state of Maryland the demon barber of fleet street is literally everywhere right now. With no fewer than three theatres producing the bloody Sondheim classic, it’s no wonder that Small Town Stars Theatre Company wanted to throw their hat in the ring and invite you to attend their tale of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Small Town Stars Theatre's production of The Odd Couple (Female Version)

The Odd Couple (Female Version) at Small Town Stars Theatre

Reviews April 8, 2022 Ashley Gerhardt

There’s something “Odd” going on in Hampstead, Maryland…. Actually, “Odd” isn’t necessarily a bad thing for local community theatre; Small Town Stars who are currently producing The Odd Couple (Female Version). For those unfamiliar with the show, The Odd Couple written by Neil Simon had its original debut in 1965 on Broadway, and with its success, spurred a film in 1968, and then a TV series from 1970 – 1975.

Little Shop of Horrors at Small Town Stars Theatre Company

Reviews October 29, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Shing-a-ling, what a creepy thing to be happening! Shang-a-lang, feel the sturm and drang in the air! Sha-la-la stop right where you are— don’t you move a thing— until you get your tickets to Small Town Stars Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors! Just in time for spooky season— literally in the nick of time as the production has just four performances over Halloween weekend, including a midnight performance going into the spooktacular day itself— Small Town Stars Theatre is bringing the cult-classic Little Shop of Horrors to the Panthers Performing Arts Center on October 29,

Puffs at Small Town Stars Theatre

Reviews July 30, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Why be one thing when you can be everything else? Not a Smart? Not a Brave? Not a Snake? Well, don’t worry, there’s still the Puffs! They’ll take you! They take everyone. They’re no one’s favorite house and they fail… a lot. But it’s okay. They’re Puffs. (HI!) Small Town Stars Theatre is getting its first show of the 2021 season underway in the new Panther Performing Arts Center (formerly North Carroll High School) this summer.