News: Baltimore Center Stage Announces New Accessibility Program
Knott Foundation Grant Opens Doors for Theatergoers Baltimore Center Stage has announced the rollout of its newly expanded and updated Accessibility Programs, funded in part by a grant from the Marion...
View ArticleReview: ‘A Hunger Artist’ at Baltimore Theater Project
Reviewed by Jason Williams Sinking Ship’s production of A Hunger Artist is a dark comedy that balances self-deprecation with self-awareness. Adapted from a short story of the same name from Czech...
View ArticleReview: ‘Inherit the Wind’ at Baltimore’s Vagabond Theatre
On a cold winter’s night, nothing heats up faster than a fiery debate. And when it comes to political grandiloquence – as timely today as 100 years ago – the Vagabond Players opening night performance...
View ArticleReview: ‘Love is a Blue Tick Hound’ at Rapid Lemon Productions (Women’s...
No garden gnomes were injured in the writing of this review As part of the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Rapid Lemon Productions is presenting the regional premiere of Love is a Blue Tick...
View ArticleIn the Moment: Interviews with Women’s Voices Theater Festival playwrights –...
This is the first part of a multi-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theater Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same questions to a number of Women’s Voices Theater Festival...
View ArticleIn the Moment Part 2: Interviews with Playwrights Dominique Cieri, Wendy Graf...
This is the second part of a two-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theatre Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same questions to a number of Women’s Voices Theatre Festival...
View ArticleReview: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ at Everyman Theatre
Long Day’s Journey Into Night chills to the bone. The wind was howling as the cold air clipper passed through downtown Baltimore last Friday evening. Inside Everyman Theatre, an even more ferocious...
View ArticleReview: ‘Skeleton Crew’ at Baltimore Center Stage (Women’s Voices Theater...
As part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, to highlight the diversity and depth of new plays being written by women, Baltimore Center Stage showcases the fourth play of its 2017-18 season with...
View ArticleIn the Moment: Interview with Patrick Lord, Projection Designer
For regular theater-goers, we have seen that projection design is not a fad or an eye-popping, one-time visual effect. Projection design has become an integral part of many a production’s overall...
View ArticleReview: Happenstance Theater’s ‘Slapstick Jukebox’ Is a Wacky Good Time
Catch Happenstance Theater’s Slapstick Jukebox before it scoots away. Only five shows were planned for this weekend, so only the fast and the few will get the opportunity to watch this solid ensemble...
View ArticleReview: ‘School of Rock’ at the Hippodrome Theatre
Dewey Finn, the schleppy hero of School of Rock, is a modern-day Maria Von Trapp, leading children to find happiness through music. While posing as a substitute teacher, he shares his passion for...
View ArticleReview: ‘Shrek the Musical’ at Charm City Players
Shrek is one of the most enigmatic modern musicals. A work of two of American theatre’s greatest living authors, David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, it has some outstanding moments; “Big Bright...
View ArticleReview: ‘Judy and the General’ at Spotlighters Theatre
It’s a rare and special treat to see the world debut of a new musical, and I was lucky enough to have the privilege of seeing the first public performance of Judy and the General at The Audrey Herman...
View ArticleReview: ‘Late Night Double Feature Improv Show’ by Fells Point Corner Theatre
By Bill Kamberger Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in a theater seems only natural. There’s a reason, though, that even...
View ArticleReview: ‘Luther’ at Arena Players
By Cybele Pomeroy “My name is Luther and I’m going to sing every song I know. Come on, y’all, let’s have a party.” — Tamba Giles as Luther Vandross in Luther. It’s a brick building in an area between...
View ArticleReview: ‘Putin On Ice (that isn’t the real title of this show)’ by Single...
By Brandon Block We’re in a long, dark, monastic chamber. A white marble bust of Putin sits against dark red drop-banners that are just barely not swastikas, instead featuring a black outline of a...
View ArticleReview: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Baltimore Center Stage
Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may boast of owning “twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile,” but in Center Stage’s comparably rich...
View ArticleReview: ‘Spring Awakening’ by StillPointe Theatre
Ryan Haase, the wunderkind behind StillPointe Theatre Initiative, ends the pre-show announcement for his current production of the musical Spring Awakening by urging us to “forget the craziness...
View ArticleReview: ‘Dirty Pictures’ at Rapid Lemon Productions
Closing its 2018 season with a World Premiere by a Local Author, Rapid Lemon debuts Dirty Pictures at Theatre Project. Pucker up: it’s about sex and love and ambition and alcoholism and bad choices and...
View ArticleDesdemona Chiang Directs ‘King of the Yees’ at Baltimore Center Stage
If you haven’t already heard, Baltimore Center Stage is producing Playwright Lauren Yee’s King of the Yees. And in case you weren’t aware, this play is kind of a big deal. The story, which takes place...
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