Articles Tagged With: James Magruder

Head Over Heels at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

Reviews June 7, 2024 Jimi Kinstle

author: Jimi Kinstle

Head Over Heels, book by James Magruder, conceived by Jeff Whitty, is open and running at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) in Frederick, MD. Directed by MET Associate Artistic Director, Gené Fouché, it offers an entertaining evening of frivolity and fantasy while exploring themes of love, acceptance and self-discovery – all set to the sounds of the 1980s high energy band, The Go-Gos.

Set in an Elizabethan-esque fairy tale world,

Head Over Heels at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre

Reviews June 2, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

I had no choice— but to hear you. You stated your case time and again. I thought about it—

I’m in the wrong story. Wait one moment please!

There is a Prince…well, princesses? And falling flags. And a non-binary Olympian (in the sense of the Gods on high not in the sense of gold-medal-winning…though the gold Doric dress of the shiniest lamé all the way from the Amazon is certainly prize-worthy!) and calamity and chaos and a good time.

Head Over Heels at Iron Crow Theatre

Reviews December 10, 2022 Leonard Taube

Listen up folks! Have you got “the beat”? No? Well then you better get your tickets and pay a visit to The Baltimore Theatre Project in Baltimore where resident company Iron Crow Theatre is putting on Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical comedy based on the songs of the 1980’s female rock bad The Go-Go’s. But before we talk about the show, we must talk about both the company and the venue,

Visions of Nowness: An Interview with James Magruder on Head Over Heels

Interviews November 30, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you having visions of nowness? (If you are, they’re probably filled with haunted Christmas ghosts, dancing leg-lamps, and all the other recurring Christmas characters who pop up on stages everywhere this time of year.) Do you feel like vacation’s all you ever wanted? Then join Iron Crow Theatre for a refreshing Christmas alternative this holiday season. They’re producing the regional premiere of The Go-Go’s Head Over Heels and in a TheaterBloom exclusive interview with stage-adapter and Broadway playwright,

Head Over Heels at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Reviews April 21, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Arcadians swear their beat is divine! And they want you to get up and go! Go get tickets, that is, to the St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s production of Head Over Heels the musical, featuring the song-catalogue of The Go-Go’s. Based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, conceived & original book by Jeff Whitty, with he aforementioned pop-rock band music providing the songs, this production is Directed by Matt J.