Articles Tagged With: Zen Tabligan

The Inn at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews August 10, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Certainly everywhere is somewhere. And after all, isn’t it more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be? Or am I perhaps conflating Norton Juster and upcoming playwright Elliot Kashner. The latter, I think. Though his current new work, The Inn, appearing at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre as a part of the summer 2026 Baltimore Playwrights Festival offering, does— to my mind— transport me to my first encounter with NPCs.

American Idiot at Silhouette Stages

Reviews June 13, 2026 Ryan J Bordenski

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.

The Crucible at Silhouette Stages

Reviews October 14, 2025 Leonard Taube

author: Leonard Taube

Intense. Thought provoking. Suspenseful. Relevant. Those are just some of the adjectives I can think of to describe the powerful piece of theatre that is Silhouette Stage’s (Columbia, MD) current production of The Crucible by American playwright Arthur Miller. This dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692-1693 may be part fiction, but one thing is for sure. While the play was written as an allegory for McCarthyism (when the US government persecuted people accused of being communists),

Matt Wetzel (left) as Cat in the Hat with Amy Hayne Rapnicki (right) as Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical the Musical at Silhouette Stages 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Seussical at Silhouette Stages

Reviews June 19, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

There’s a way things are done when one does a musical. It’s all been done and it’s all been said.

But not when it comes to this production of Seussical, Stephen Foreman, what in WHO has gotten into your head?

Wait— strike that! Reverse it? No, that’s another show, my brain’s a fuzzy mop.

Let me start this thing over— let me start from the top!

Kinky Boots at Silhouette Stages

Reviews March 10, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Shoes can protect a man’s journey but only his heart can choose the path. And your heart will take you on the path to Silhouette Stages and their impressive production of Kinky Boots! Directed by Jeremy Goldman with Musical Direction by Matthew Dohm and Choreography by Jeremy A. McShan, this much-needed story of accepting people for who they are is chock-a-block with talent, packed full of energy, enthusiasm, and will have you lit like a live wire by evening’s end.

Heathers at Third Wall Productions

Reviews April 8, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Dear Diary,

My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a body count. But what’s your damage, Heather? Is your name even Heather? Just in case it isn’t, Third Wall Productions has a whole bunch of them (three to be in fact) with their fiery production of the screen-to-stage musical Heathers, now playing through April 14th 2024. Directed by Jake Schwarts with Musical Direction by Anton Van De Motter and Choreography by Kelly Williams Carlson,