Bill Kamberger was formerly the theater critic for The Baltimore Alternative, from 1995 until it ceased publication in 2000. During his tenure there, his reviews won three Vice Versa Awards, honoring journalistic excellence in the LGBT press of North America. He is also active as a director, with credits that run the gamut from Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci to Marivaux' Engaging Strategies, and from Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! to Milan Stitt's The Runner Stumbles to Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox. He has also staged several world premieres, including four plays by Mark Scharf. Over the past decade, however, his prime focus has been on musicals, including Wings, Bed and Sofa, Passion, Parade, Street Scene, The Spitfire Grill, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, The Last Five Years, The Immigrant, and Romance/Romance. Since 2003, Bill has been named "Baltimore's Best Stage Director" by The City Paper, Baltimore OUTLoud, and Baltimore Broadway World itself.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's CYRANO Misses by a Nose
June 19, 2009
June 19, 2009
Edmond Rostand's CYRANO DE BERGERAC is a theatrical paradox. The notoriously picky John Simon called it 'not a great play, merely a perfect one.' Be that as it may, companies mounting the show usually find that though this play is very hard to ruin, it's also nearly impossible to get completely right.
Wedekind's Wunderkinds
March 1, 2009
March 1, 2009
Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening may have been banned from the stage in the 1890s, but unlike the troubled adolescents whose lives it chronicles, the play survived those growing pains to become one of the seminal works of German drama, not to mention the template for just about every teen tragedy from Rebel Without a Cause onward.
Suburban Players' HOW TO SUCCEED... Is Worth Trying
February 17, 2009
February 17, 2009
For their 35th-anniversary production, the Suburban Players are mounting Frank Loesser's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical satire of corporate greed and incompetence, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, and the timing could hardly be better. Why let the threat of a depression depress you?
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