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1 week ago | 
broadwayworld.com | Cybele Pomeroy
Get Access To Every Broadway StoryUnlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email:Existing user? Just click login. A salesman manufactures an imaginary town crisis, offering salvation in the form of a children's band, despite having no musical talent. THE MUSIC MAN has captured the hearts of audiences for several generations and shows no sign of descending quietly into obscurity.
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2 weeks ago | 
broadwayworld.com | Cybele Pomeroy
Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf? And who IS Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee’s 1962 play doesn’t answer these questions, or really, ANY of the questions it provokes. It’s the sort of thing that either tickles or annoys people, depending on what one likes.
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3 weeks ago | 
dctheaterarts.org | Cybele Pomeroy
In Baltimore Center Stage’s current family-oriented show, Akeelah and the Bee, an urban young person suffering from a lack of positive attention gets pulled into competitive spelling and discovers several unimagined worlds alongside her own. Based on the 2006 film featuring young Keke Palmer, this production has every reason to delight theatergoers: broad appeal, representation, drama, humor, lively action, and local references.
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1 month ago | 
dctheaterarts.org | Cybele Pomeroy
Theater lovers, something wonderful is afoot in Columbia, Maryland: Silhouette Stages’ production of Kinky Boots — this sole-ful romp. Charlie Price, a reluctant shoe factory owner, finds his destiny after a late-night encounter with Lola, a performer who needs boots strong enough for a man but made for a woman.
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2 months ago | 
dctheaterarts.org | Cybele Pomeroy
The stage play Rope, later adapted to become Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film of the same name, is an upside-down whodunnit. That is to say, the audience, in what became a film noir trope in the 1940s, knows something that the characters of the piece do not know at the very outset. We know Who, and fairly soon, we know the other W’s as well.
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2 months ago | 
dctheaterarts.org | Cybele Pomeroy |Eboni Booth
Primary Trust is the name of a bank in the show, but also the theme of the show. Who do you turn to when the world is terrifying? How do you navigate when you don’t have the vocabulary to ask for help? What is it like to be invisibly damaged while appearing to be fully functional? How do you learn to interact with and love others when your lifetime experience is one of being “othered”?
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2 months ago | 
broadwayworld.com | Cybele Pomeroy
If you’re a Dolly Parton fan, you’ll like this show. If you’re not a Dolly Parton fan, grab your nearest Dolly-fan friend, invite them to the show, and instantly raise your status in their eyes. Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5 plays at Toby’s Dinner Theater in Columbia MD through March 16th, 2025. Toby’s once again proves itself to be on topic with its production of 9 TO 5, music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, book, (dialogue), by Patricia Resnick, based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
broadwayworld.com | Cybele Pomeroy
Honey Bee Baby is A Buzzing Nest Of Questions at Strand through January 24th, 2025. The first thing I’d like to say is this: I liked Honey Bee Baby enough that I’m considering seeing it another time during its month-long run. If you’ve found your taste in theatre to run concurrent with mine, go ahead and just buy tickets now. I want live theater to astonish or puzzle me, to offer me a different perspective or to show me something I’ve never considered. Honeybee Baby does all of that and then some.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Cybele Pomeroy
Lumina Theatre’s A FEW GOOD MEN at Howard County Arts Council Is More Than A Few Good ActorsIt may be that the only thing you know about A FEW GOOD MEN is the line, “You can’t handle the truth!” to which I say, Yeah, me too. Military, Tom Cruise, but that’s about it. The show A FEW GOOD MEN is both courtroom drama and military drama. It involves a couple of young enlisted men caught between orders and humanity, a mediocre lawyer and a committed Internal Affairs agent.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
dctheaterarts.org | Cybele Pomeroy
Alice in Wonderland/Alicia en el País de las Maravillas features a cast of two dozen children and a couple of adults. This production is an example of very good quality youth theatrics. Youngsters will be enchanted by the bright outfits, active dance numbers, and amusing characters, though the fancy language might be lost on the littles.
