Articles Tagged With: Elinor Bower

Circle Mirror Transformation at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews September 21, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

For a season of harmony and balance, nurture and compassion, Circle Mirror Transformation seems an odd choice, especially as the kick-starter for said season. Annie Baker’s esoteric theatrical exercise-come-stage-play is now appearing at Spotlighters Theatre through October 1st 2023 under the direction of Nick Cherone.

The play itself is deeply problematic— not because it hits on any hot-button issues or is outdated/outmoded or offensive but rather because it feels unfinished. There’s sort of a beginning,

The Prom at STAR Ltd. Apples & Bees Casts

News August 4, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

You can predict what the reviews will say before the next notice arrives!

These YA-kids over are STAR Ltd. are nightly changing lives! It’s such an important show to be producing right now that literally every theatre and their mother is doing it. Including STAR Ltd. (And they’ve got the ‘Apples’ and ‘Bees’ cast and this reviewer saw them both!) and their YA summer production, in partnership with the Chesapeake Arts Center. It’s the show of 2023 (every year gets one,

Dr. Doolittle at The Salem Players

Reviews May 1, 2023 Mike Zellhofer

It is the trial of the century! Every juicy piece of gossip you could imagine is wrapped up neatly, just waiting to be unraveled. There are men, women, and a strange woman. There are cops, judges, bailiffs, and animals. What? Animals? Yes, animals! In fact, some can even talk to them. Curious? Then you must see Doctor Dolittle being presented by The Salem Players.

Director Jen Sizer takes the ball to direct her first musical and delivers a touchdown.

Disney’s Descendants at Children’s Playhouse of Maryland

Reviews December 8, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

They got all the ways to be W-I-C-K-E-D! Just get your tickets and you’ll see them be W-I-C-K-E-D! Children’s Playhouse of Maryland is bringing the house down this holiday season with their production of Disney’s Descendants. And it is living up to its wicked namesake! Directed by Liz Boyer Hunnicutt with Musical Direction by Charlotte Evans and Choreography by Rachel Miller this thrilling, high-energy, totally upbeat and wildly twisted tale of the children of Disney’s finest ‘evils’ will have you recognizing that bad is the new good all through the holiday season.

A Little Princess at St. Gabriel’s Miracle Players

News November 8, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Let’s play a game of pretend. We’ll pretend it’s London, England in 1904 at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies… where only the most prestigious of young girls are sent to learn schooling and etiquette. Having fun playing along yet? That’s exactly what the almost all-female cast of A Little Princess is doing at St. Gabriel’s Miracle Players this November. Adapted from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, in special production arrangement with The Dramatist Publishing Company of Woodstock,

42nd Street- Youth Edition at Children’s Playhouse of Maryland

Reviews September 23, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Hey— y’all hear? CPM is doin’ a show! Children’s Playhouse of Maryland is doing a show! So get ready to come and meet those dancing feet— on the avenue they’re taking you to—42nd Street (youth edition.) All the glamor, glitz, and glory of your favorite tunes, with all of the dusty treacle trimmed out for a succinct bullet (over-Broadway) point version of the iconic musical with a sensational score of tap-dancing youth ready to knock your socks off!

High School Musical at Cockpit In Court Jr.

Reviews July 16, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

They’re soarin’! Flyin’! There’s not a star in heaven that they can’t reach! Because they’ve got their heads in the game! That’s right! Cockpit in Court Jr. is bringing you millennial Grease AKA— Disney’s High School Musical. Serving as the high-school show of the early 00’s, this Disney show gives agency to characters who are too often pigeonholed into a particular stereotype. Two things can be true and when you live your best life?

Radio Plays at The Salem Players

Reviews November 13, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Don’t touch that dial! You’re in for a treat as the Salem Players proudly presents Radio Plays, Directed by Anita Spicer-Lane. Want an old-fashioned evening of nostalgia? Back to a simpler time when all the drama was heard gathered around the fireplace in the parlor whistling out of the radio? Salem Players has you covered. Featuring a selection of three vintage radio dramas— The Lone Ranger– “The Tell-Tale Bullet” from September 30,

Seussical at St. Gabriel Miracle Players

Reviews November 22, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

After all of those years being
stuck on a page, did you ever imagine it up on the stage?

And what is this “it” to imagine,
you ask? It’s some pretty big thinks; it’s a mighty big task!

As Christmas approaches, write to Santa,
say your prayers,

Because Seussical— the
musical! Is now on stage at St. Gabriel Miracle Players!

They went out of the box— and
their sky turned bright pink!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Bard’s Wagon Players

Reviews July 24, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

I am amazed; I know not what to say. Though the words be but
borrowed from The Bard, the sentiment bares much troth for feelings in my left
pap, where heart doth hop, in regard to The Bard Wagon Players. Striking up
against adversity— both of weather foul and ill-sentiment to their company’s
original namesake— the little mobile wagon full of Shakespeare doth enter its
third season upon the grassy fields of performing outdoor* Shakespeare here in
Maryland.

A Christmas Story at St. Gabriel Miracle Players

Reviews November 16, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

You’ll shoot your eye out! You’ll shoot your eye out! You’ll shoot your eye out when you hear just how many different theatres are all doing A Christmas Story this Christmas season!! BUT— fear not! St. Gabriel Miracle Players are the first AND they are the only ones to be doing the non-musical version! So you won’t find any leg-lamp kick-lines at St. Gabriel’s this November, but you will find a talented bunch of youngsters and youngsters at heart doing their seasonal magic on the Miracle Players’ stage to bring you that timeless— since 1983— tale of little Ralphie,