Will Emory as Anthony, Amber Levow as Jackie-O and Matt Baughman as Marty. © Joe Williams 2010

DC Theatre Scene reviews “The House of Yes” and finds it to be a “…a dark, delightfully creepy little play that will greatly appeal to the avant-garde theatregoer looking for something delicious.”

Read the whole review here.

Stage Manager, Lynne Harris keeping everything together!

Sarah Straw mans the box office

Incoming!! Patrons arrive to get some tickets.

Met Volunteer Apple Reese is all smiles at the bar & ready to serve you up!

House Manager Rona Mensah & MET Volunteers Tina & Geri are ready to usher all in

Check out that Sunday matinee crowd!

Later on in the afternoon we had rehearsal with the energetic cast of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” at the Carroll County Arts Center.  And, following that we had a rehearsal with the women of “Exuviae“.  Exuviae will be performed at Frederick Community College this Wed night as part of our 2009-2010 tour of this ground-breaking piece funded in part by a generous grant from the Ausherman Family Foundation!  The performance is free and open to the public…so if you missed it the first time around, please join us!

Mak is having a ball...right Mak?

We're Kitty Kats!!!

And we had a Birthday Party for the delightful Morgan after our performance of “The Amazing Interactive Adventure”.  A good time was had by all!  Looking for a fun-filled birthday party idea??  Why not come to the MET!

The cast wishes Morgan a "Happy Birthday"!

Once upon a time there was a blizzard.  It didn’t start out life as an evil, mean-spirited blizzard, but it couldn’t help but notice that, despite the fact that it was planning to dump a record amount of snow on two of the most important cities in the world, the meteorologists still wouldn’t give it a name.  Every stupid little tropical depression that lasted more than 5 minutes got a name, but not a record-making blizzard. So when the blizzard did its worst and still didn’t get a name, it called its bigger, eviller, naturally mean-spirited cousin.  That second blizzard ripped through town like eggs through a hen, but still no name. Then they called a friend – another record-setting blizzard that just happened to be in the neighborhood.  This third blizzard was so annoyed at the ongoing, no-name-giving, flagrant disrespect that it took a left at the jet stream and headed back towards Washington, D.C. to spit out a couple more inches of snow, just to remind the nation’s weather-heads that blizzards don’t screw around.  AND STILL NO NAME.
 
So you have to wonder – who, exactly, does a blizzard have to blow in this town to get a name?
 
Cabin-feverish enough that that sounded funny?  Come see the Comedy Pigs Saturday night at 10:30pm!  Blizzards get in half price!

The Cast of “The Little Mermaid” rehearses at Monocacy Elementary School.  Julie, Ashley, Karen & Erica are working at 3 local elementary schools and  The Carroll County Arts Center, producing full scale musicals with a ton of talented kids!

… sneaky thieves…

…sharp shooting cowboys…

…aliens…

…mad scientists and a leggy octopus…

…dancing pirates…

…a warm milk-loving sultan…

…a mischievous troll…

… a lonely dragon…

…and a kind wizard.  You also get to do some magic wand waving, feet stomping and adjective shouting. So bring the family on down to MET for an “Amazing Interactive Adventure!” The show runs on Saturdays at 2pm thru April 3rd.

Karen Paone (cast), Tad Janes (director), Pat McDonald (props), Reiner Prochaska (adapter, cast), Carly Lawrence (cast) and Joe Jallete (cast)

Ken Poisson (stage manager), Moses Goldberg (cast), Tom Majarov (sound designer), Bill Stitely (cast), Karen Paone (cast).  Not pictured are assistant stage manager Sarah Shuman, set designer Mark Barnhart, costumer designer and cast member Julie Herber and costume designer Sherry Shaner.

And Reiner read a bit of “The Canterbury Tales” to us – first in the old English in which Geoffrey Chaucer wrote it, and then in modern English:

The show opens March 26th!

Matt Baughman, Karli Cole, Michelle Simms & Vanessa Strickland are pirates!