Daniel Collins - Page 8

It's 1964 in a small Catholic school in the Bronx. A priest has taken St. Nicholas' only black student under his wing. Is he protector or something else? This is just one of many questions posed in John Patrick Shanley's award-winning play, 'Doubt: A Parable,' now at Baltimore's Spotlighters Theatre.

Those who can, act; those who can't, review? Not necessarily. Broadwayworld reviewer Dan Collins recently put down his critic's notepad to stride the boards for the very first time in the Fells Point Corner Theater's playwrights' competition, '10x10.'

Mother Theresa a bad guy? Pontius Pilate just an honorable Roman? Satan hitting people below the belt with the truth? Mary Magdalene in fishnets? It's all a bit off kilter, designed to give the audience a different perspective in Stephen Adly Guirgis' 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,' now at the Mobtown Players theater.

Secrets unfold when the Levay brothers bring their girlfriends to the family's luxurious Martha's vineyard summer home to meet their parents in Lydia Diamond's 'Stick Fly,' now at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre.

It's a love story, a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a WWII history lesson that's sad, tragic, funny, violent, and all set on a rotating stage...but is it all a bit too much? It's 'Snow Falling on Cedars' now at Baltimore's Center Stage.

A wornout man in yesterday's suit and fedora achieves tragic heights typically reserved for Shakespearean kings in Arthur Miller's classic, 'Death of a Salesman,' now at the Vagabond Players Theater in Fells Point.

A family of four drive 2,000 miles across country to see a dying relative one last time. Who and what they encounter along the way is the stuff of 'Approaching Zanzibar,' now at the Spotlighters Theatre.

A philosophy professor returns home to London from America with his wife in tow to meet his family. A simple enough premise, but in the hands of absurdist playwright Harold Pinter, the result is something less than warm and fuzzy.

There's a reason 'She Stoops To Conquer' continues to grace stages worldwide nearly 250 years since it was first performed in 1773...It's funny, and in a myriad of ways

Translated into 12 languages with productions in more than 20 countries, 'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' brings its comic edge to the stage at the Vagabond Players theater.

Valentine's Day comes early to the Everyman Theatre as two one-time lovers contemplate reuniting in Steven Dietz's play, 'Shooting Star.'

Absurdly, sublimely ridiculous playwright Charles Ludlam's salute to acting, the relationship between fathers and sons--especially when the father and son are both actors with an affinity for 'Hamlet'--is the stuff and nonsense of 'Stage Blood' now at the Spotlighters Theater in downtown Baltimore.

Taken from the real-life experiences of Marines and their families, ReEntry provides a look at what it's like for men and women trained to kill to leave the battlefield and return home.

Everyman Theatre's 20th anniversary celebration continues with a riveting performance of the 1946 Arthur Miller family drama, 'All My Sons.'

Shakespeare's comic tale of unrequited love, mistaken identities, cross-dressing, cross-garters, fights and duels, a drunken lord of misrule, and a spoilsport's come-uppance adorns the Spotlighters' diminutive stage.

'Titus Andronicus,' the Bard's bloody horror play, finds the perfect setting in the haunted ruins of Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park as the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents a performance of murder, mayhem and a meal you won't soon forget.

Take five 20-to-30-something ladies and put them into big, billowing satin dresses that make them look like lamps or linebackers. Toss in some sex, religion, drugs, a wee bit o'men bashing and don't forget the lesbian, and you've got award-winning playwright Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.'

It's a tale stranger than truth and fiction as the Everyman Theater presents Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' story of high seas adventure in 'Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself).'

'Cabaret' is a celebration of celebration. It is also a play about deep denial, in this case, denial that the world was about to irrevocably change, particularly for the people of Germany in 1929-1930 when the work is set.

The Vagabond Players open their 95th season with Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary assault on the hypocrisy of middle class marriage in 'A Doll's House.'