“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams,” John Merrick offers to an attractive visitor, one of the first women he ever encountered who did not recoil in horror at the sight of him. The soul-bearing insights of a poetic spirit are revealed throughout Bernard Pomerance’s touching play […]
Q2Q comics artist makes theatre’s backstage his front page
The drive to Frederick was long, but the destination was worth it. Not just because Frederick may be the most adorable town in driving distance of DC, but also because that town is home to Maryland Ensemble Theater and their go-to sound guy Steve Younkins.
A Revolutionary Christmas at Maryland Ensemble Theatre
The holidays are certainly a time for theatre to tap into the spirit of the season. There is always a chance (or four) to see Ebenezer Scrooge’s redemptive journey of self-discovery, of course. Usually, there are several little girls named Clara dreaming of Sugar Plum Fairies and the Mouse King’s battle with the heroic Nutcracker. […]
I Am My Own Wife
I expected Doug Wright’s play I Am My Own Wife to be a different kind of Anne Frank story, one in which the heroine survives by hiding in plain sight. Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the play’s historical center, was a German transvestite who lived in east Berlin from the 1930s through the 1980s, a time when […]
Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play in Frederick
In most ways, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play gives us what we came to see, argue as we might that we didn’t come to see that. You didn’t? No! We thought it would be, like, a dramatic reading of A Room of One’s Own. That’s baloney. And one of the things that […]