Jack L. B. Gohn
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Review: MY FAVORITE SOCIOPATH at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Thanks to a serious discussion wrought by the end, the play avoids being a mere entertainment.
Review: REFUGEE RHAPSODY at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Refugee Rhapsody, by Yussef El Guindi, is kind of funny.
Review: BEST LINE WINS at Contemporary American Theater Festival
There are a lot of good laughs there.
Review: THE SMOKER at Contemporary American Theater Festival
In the end, this is not so much of a takedown of one specific person as of a way of being a person.
Review: ¡VOS! at Contemporary American Theater Festival
This play had been a powerful emotional experience, one I would have delightedly seen again, even before I’d mastered the fact pattern.
Review: CAESAR/AMERICANA at Fells Point Corner Theatre
A logistically and artistically ambitious mashup of Shakespeare's play and modern American songs with some great acting.
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.
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