Articles Tagged With: Brian Lyons-Burke

Pippin at The Fredericktowne Players

Reviews September 10, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Rivers run where they can ramble…and theatres find stages where they can produce. The Fredericktowne Players, who are extremely grateful to be producing at The Weinberg Center for the Arts in downtown historic Frederick, are launching their limited run of Pippin for one weekend only. Directed by Matthew Bannister, with Musical Direction by Matthew Dohm, and Choreography by Laurie Newton, this musical theatre production goes beyond the dreams of running away with the circus and presents a refreshing,

Oliver! at Kensington Arts Theatre

Reviews May 17, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

I’d do anything— for a good show— anything! And despite all
the connotations the come alongside Oliver!
(that it’s dated, that it’s a child’s musical, that it’s a bit rubbish in
music and book, etc.) Kensington Arts Theatre is producing what is arguably
their best show of the 2018-2019 season. Practically perfect, with a few minor
exceptions, this well-heeled production of Lionel Bart’s musical adaptation of
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is surprisingly
endearing and loaded with an extraordinarily talented cast.

The Bridges of Madison County at Red Branch Theatre Company

Reviews September 30, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther 4 Comments

Love is always better. But what if you choose the path of love in hopes of escape? A simple girl, bereft of her fiancé from the war, desperate to escape Italy takes the first American GI that comes along and settles a life in farm-country Iowa. She tends the husband, raises two children, and cooks the dinner. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words; what then must the photographer who takes that picture be worth when he shows up like a breath of fresh air disrupting her routine,