Review: A CHORUS LINE at Toby's Sings And Dances Its Way Into Your HeartFebruary 4, 2024 A CHORUS LINE at Toby’s in Columbia through March 10th, 2024- Staff are warm and helpful, the atmosphere is welcoming and the production is wonderful. If you’re a fan of musical theater, A CHORUS LINE will resonate. It’s a visual and auditory delight, with complex dance numbers and Marvin Hamlisch’s memorable melodies.
Review: RENT Rocks At Baltimore's Theatre Project AND M & T Bank ExchangeJanuary 30, 2024RENT is an assemblage of romantic tragedy interspersed with moments that touch your heart, rattle your nerves or tickle your funny bone, set in the gritty underbelly of New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The show is a tribute to the spirit of people undaunted by poverty, addiction and illness in the face of a very bleak reality.
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET - Join In Live on a Holiday Tradition At Toby's In ColumbiaDecember 10, 2023Toby’s Dinner And Show in Columbia, MD, presents Meredith Wilson’s Miracle On 34th Street, the Musical through January 7th, 2024, and it’s a fun holiday outing that gives the feel of New York City in December. Dress up for the occasion if you wish, and step into a traditional holiday favorite, live and in full color.
Review: POE'S LAST STANZA at Perry's in Odenton Is Full of Wit, Poetry and HumorNovember 13, 2023Here is wonderful dark magic at work. The wizarding workshop is Do Or Die Productions, its owner/ director/ writer, CJ Crowe, the magician, and her brainchild, POE'S LAST STANZA the spell. The magic of live theater, collective imagination, and audience-driven improvisation are the ingredients in Crowe’s bewitching brew.
Review: Lots To Like In ChesShakes Production of Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE ITOctober 10, 2023Chesapeake Shakespeare Company ensemble performers are quick on their feet, perfect in their enunciation, energetic and expressive as they deliver Shakespearean favorite plot elements of upper class people in forests, merriment, witty banter, love triangles, and everyone getting married. The action is fast-paced, the set stunning and immersive.
Sisters Act Up And Over The Top In Lively Production of SISTER ACT at Toby's In ColumbiaSeptember 19, 2023SISTER ACT at Toby's in Columbia is a delightfully energetic show that is woman-driven and relationship-positive. Songwriter Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater (of Disney fame) create numbers specifically for theatrical production of the movie-inspired script. Ear-pleasing harmonies abound in an extravaganza of song, dance and sisterhood.
Review: NEIL SIMON'S THE DINNER PARTY Explores Relationships at Cockpit In CourtAugust 7, 2023Cockpit In Court at CCBC presents THE DINNER PARTY, by Neil Simon. With 30+ Neil Simon plays to consider, THE DINNER PARTY is an unconventional choice. It’s not funny-funny, as one who is only passingly familiar with Neil Simon’s work, might expect, so it’s less often produced; consider it an opportunity to see something one hasn’t seen before.
Review: R/J Fresh Alt Take On Shakespeare At StrandJune 22, 2023R/J Fresh Alt Take On Shakespeare At Strand: a poignant contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet blows apart the Sharks and the Jets. Gen Z is much more than man-woman, boy-girl, literally dying, often legislated to death, and this story must be told. Writers Aladrian C. Wetzel & Elizabeth Ung update both story and characters to great effect.
THE LADY WAS A GENTLEMAN is Fabulous Fun at Strand Theater in BaltimoreMay 9, 2023The year is 1858. Charlotte Cushman, renowned performer in the US and abroad, plays male roles onstage as often as female roles, and prefers them. Strand Theater Company produces Barbara Kahn's script, which is built for humor, and spotlights an underappreciated American heroine. This female-centric production is triumphant queer comic theater.
Review: GREASE at Toby's Is Slick ProductionApril 16, 2023GREASE, a perennial favorite for theaters and theater-goers, is quite the crowd-pleaser at Toby's Dinner Theater in Columbia, Maryland. It's full of fun songs you already know, excellent dancing and a tiny bit of plot. The cast is excellent and the staging is lively. It has many elements in common with the movie, but a PG rating isn't one of them.
Review: Brava, Bravo! Fall In Love With HUBBA HUBBA at Theatre ProjectMarch 25, 2023Brava, Bravo! For HUBBA HUBBA At Theatre Project: Don't miss the World Premiere! This new show by Alex & Olmsted, internationally acclaimed winners of multiple Jim Henson Award grants, is a pastiche of comedic scenes starring humans, puppets and an invisible fruit fly. Each carries a unique message spotlighting different facets of romantic love.