Seventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival: What to See and Where to See It
The Seventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival is taking place in the Bromo Arts District from November 1 through November 11, 2018. Here’s a listing of all the shows. Get fringing! Fringe Shows with...
View ArticleSeventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival – How to Fringe 2018
What is Fringe? Today begins the Seventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival, a celebration of new and emerging independent theatre that will continue through November 11th. The festival offers 22 shows,...
View ArticleReview: ‘NURSE!’ at The Charm City Fringe Festival
Lisa Hayes brings one of her acclaimed one-woman shows to Baltimore with NURSE!, a compelling story of a labor strike from a variety of perspectives. Embodying numerous distinct characters, Hayes...
View ArticleReview: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at The Hippodrome Theatre
The spirits of displacement and change hang heavily over Fiddler on the Roof these days. What keeps it all from becoming, well, dispiriting is the heartfelt humanity evident in every timeless bar of...
View ArticleReview: ‘A Wonder in my Soul’ at Baltimore Center Stage
“We fight like cats, but we love like dogs.” Marcus Gardley, the author of A Wonder in my Soul has just the right way of putting things. Baltimore Center Stage continues its standard of excellence with...
View ArticleReview: ‘Measure for Measure’ at Green Globe Theatre
There is some uncanny and rather dismaying contemporary resonance in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, now playing at Baltimore’s Green Globe Theatre. The virginal Isabella (Grace O’Keefe), about to...
View ArticleReview: ‘Thank You, Dad’ at Rapid Lemon Productions
In 2018, the 40th anniversary year of what’s become known as The Jonestown Massacre, Rapid Lemon Productions commissioned its first full-length play. Emerging local playwright Aladrian C. Wetzel was...
View ArticleReview: ‘Fun Home’ at the Baltimore Center Stage
“Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.” With this lyric, the Bechdel family invites the Baltimore Center Stage audience into their home – free of judgment and with all their family dysfunction on full...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ at the Iron Crow Theatre
Human beings are mysterious creatures: how deeply can we know even those closest to us, or ourselves? What’s the cost of knowing? In Bathsheba Doran’s 2015 play, The Mystery of Love and Sex, having its...
View ArticleReview: ‘Everything is Wonderful’ at Everyman Theatre
Having helmed last season’s widely-acclaimed The Book of Joseph, Everyman Theatre Associate Artistic Director Noah Himmelstein has returned to the director’s chair for Everyman’s latest offering. Told...
View ArticleReview: ‘Indecent’ at Baltimore Center Stage
As presented at Baltimore Center Stage, Indecent is a timely, timeless story, about a sexuality, about a religion, about a people, about all people. Audiences will leave this production emotionally...
View ArticleReview: ‘Dinner with Friends’ at Everyman Theatre
Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, opened to an enthusiastic full house at Everyman on Friday. The play gives Director...
View Article‘Book of Mormon’ at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Announces Discount Ticket Lottery
Producers of the national tour of The Book of Mormon at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater have announced a special ticket discount for seats to each upcoming performance, April 2 through April 7. Seats...
View ArticleReview: ‘Beehive’ at Spotlighters Theatre
There are times when the theater takes daring artistic risks, asks uncomfortable questions, and exposes the darkest truths about our institutions and ourselves. We love the medium for that. We also...
View ArticleReview: ‘Hamlet’ at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
You’ve seen ten productions of Hamlet, you’ve seen ‘em all, right? There is nothing new you care to see at this point, because even the innovative approach is becoming tired. But have you ever seen a...
View ArticleReview: ‘And Baby Makes Seven’ at The Strand
Closing out its 11th season, The Strand Theater Company presents the final three performances of Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven. Directed by Emily Hall and featuring a talented cast and production...
View ArticleReview: ‘Pink Milk’ at Single Carrot Theatre
“Those who can imagine anything can create the impossible.” – Alan Turing For its final production in its Remington home, Single Carrot Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Pink Milk. Written by...
View ArticleReview: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at Everyman Theatre
The mark of good theatre, of a truly transformative piece, is how universal it is. How much it speaks to the then and the now. Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinnette Jennings – currently playing...
View ArticleReview: ‘Hamilton’ at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
The notion that “history has its eyes on you” animates and obsesses the title character in Hamilton. A similar shadow of destiny heralded the Maryland debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s unstoppable, bobsled...
View ArticleReview: ‘Altar Ego’ by Submersive Productions
Readers of DC Metro Theater Arts who are District-based are likely already familiar with immersive theater. Companies like TBD Immersive have recently begun presenting in nontraditional spaces,...
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