New York-based Infinity Theatre Company will offer a two-show season this summer in Annapolis. The season will feature Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing in collaboration with Live Arts Maryland and the long-running off-Broadway hit The Fantasticks. A Grand Night, done under the baton of Live Arts Maryland’s Artistic Director, J. Ernest Green, […]
Review: Murder for Two from Infinity Theatre
Murder for Two is a nice light evening out. If you’re a fan of both murder mysteries and musicals, with a peppering of slapstick, you’ll have a great time. But be forewarned: though the music by Joe Kinosian, and clever lyrics by Kellen Blair are a highlight, the book by the same writers is less […]
An SNL-style Godspell from Infinity Theatre (review)
It is incredible that no one’s thought of pairing Godspell with the structure of “Saturday Night Live” before. I am sure I have just turned off a purist or two who might think such a combination is either blasphemous or just too darned wacky. But stay tuned, and I will tell you why it’s not.
Infinity brings back Patsy with A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (review)
Patsy Cline is easily the queen mother of country music—her importance to the genre on par with the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Loretta Lynn. She was a pioneer, paving the way for country to go mainstream with her pop crossover hits and showing that women could hold their own in a tough, […]
Pallas and Infinity theatre companies announce their 2017 seasons
Two announcements from companies who produce in a single calendar year, rather than on the traditional theatre schedule of fall to summer.
Million Dollar Quarter from Infinity Theatre (review)
On December 4, 1956, two young musicians dropped in on a recording session at Sun Record Studio in Memphis, for what turned into an iconic night of jamming and jawing that changed the course of rock and roll. If you haven’t heard of it, you’ve certainly heard of the men: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and […]
Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver at Infinity Theatre (review)
If you are a loyal and nostalgic fan of John Denver’s music, by all means head to Annapolis and see the Infinity Theatre Company’s production of the new jukebox musical Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver.
Stage Briefs
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Synetic Theater, Molly Smith, Bohemian Caverns, Source Festival, Studio Theatre and Infinity Theatre.
Baby, a bundle of musical joy at Infinity Theatre (review)
Look what the stork dropped off: a nice bundle of joy all wrapped up in the musical Baby. It’s happily cooing away at Infinity Theatre Company in Annapolis. And this baby does not just crawl; this musical has legs to stand on its own two feet.
Ring of Fire: the music of Johnny Cash is on fire at Infinity (Review)
Johnny Cash— the name conjures up the iconic look, sound and feel of the man and his music which has become part of the American musical lexicon. Many of us have heard the voice, and recognize the “man in black,” even in silhouette. Ring of Fire brings all of that and more into focus through […]
I Do! I Do!
At home I have a souvenir program from the 1968 tour of I Do! I Do!. In Rochester, New York, that year, my parents saw Broadway greats Robert Preston and Mary Martin in Tom Jones’and Harvey Schmidt’s chronicle of a lengthy, traditional, upper-middle class marriage. It isn’t fair, in a small theater production, to expect […]
Hank Williams: Lost Highway
The “musical drama” of Hank Williams: Lost Highway takes its cues from other great bio-dramas that have gone before, and what it lacks in storytelling it makes up with sheer talent.