Jack L. B. Gohn
Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre
History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album.
Review: Jane Austen's PERSUASION at Chesapeake Shakespeare
There is a great deal to like about the dramatization of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion, just opened at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
Review: Spectacle, Realpolitik, and Mixed Motives: MARY STUART at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
The case for this production rests most firmly on the sheer spectacle and melodrama of the clash of the queens.
Review: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Superb JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE
The joint effort of Baltimore's theaters to present the entire Pittsburgh Cycle is a cause for celebration, and this production, the second in the cycle, is superb.
Review: POTUS Delivers Gross Hilarity at Everyman Theatre
This is almost certainly the funniest thing you’re likely to see all year.
Review: Not in Kansas Anymore: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting at CATF
In presenting the story of a neuro-diverse protagonist mostly through the protagonist's eyes, and shredding narrative consistency and sequence, the playwright Harmon dot aut has rendered a confusing story.
Review: A Creepy ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN At Contemporary American Theater Festival
As a vehicle for making things go bump in the night, I’m not sure this show consistently hits the target.
Review: A Stunning WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THAT BEAUTY? at Contemporary American Theater Festival
This is an important play, to be considered a peer of Angels in America and The Inheritance, a sweeping two-play multigeneration account of the impact of AIDS on the American gay community -- with the difference that this one focuses on men and women of color.
Review: A Wry Storyteller Narrates Horror and Recovery: THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH at CATF
It's not an unfamiliar tale, following Holocaust victim Eddie Jaku from comfortable circumstances through horror and gradually out again.
No Mystery: Go See CLUE at Hippodrome
So, even with one major problem, the muddy sound denign, whether to go see this show is no mystery.
Review: The Atreides Are Us in THE ORESTEIA at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
There are great depths here, and great wisdom, and Playwright Ellen McLoughlin’s handiwork and that of Chesapeake Shakespeare convey them well.
Review: In THE BOOK OF GRACE from Rapid Lemon, a Penchant for Grand Themes and Intoxicating Characters, Outstanding Cast
Playwright Suzan Lori-Parks evidently likes to swing for the fences.
Reality Crumbles But A Plot Emerges: Jon Fosse's STRONG WIND Premieres at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre productions are never mere theatrical comfort food; they generally have classical or European roots and, whether comic or tragic, they are always intellectually serious affairs, out to show us or make us think about interesting matters.
Review: A Challenging DOLL'S HOUSE at Everyman Theatre
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, translated, adapted, and directed by Joanie Schultz, runs through September 28, at Everyman Theatre.
Review: A Theatrical Feast: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Signature Theatre
Given the moat of terrible traffic that separates Baltimore theatergoers from Arlington, what can justify a visit there? Well, one answer for sure is Signature Theatre’s stunning production of the 2014 musical The Bridges of Madison County.
Tightened and Thrilling HAMLET at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
I think the minimalism and starkness is intended to be clarifying; we are meant to be focused on the hearts of the various intertwined stories Shakespeare presents, and perhaps less distracted by other things going on at the very large periphery the playwright has laid out.
Review: A Compleat HADESTOWN at Hippodrome Theatre
So, by virtue of all of these elements this show is compleat in the senses fostered by the archaic spelling of the word, what Webster's renders as 'having all the necessary or desired elements or skills.
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE Thrills and Bemuses at Everyman Theatre
The Sound Inside, by Adam Rapp, now gracing the boards at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre, is one of those all-too-rare plays that just bowls you over, even if, afterwards, you’re not quite sure where you’ve been during its bemusing 90 minutes.
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