Seminar starts out strong, ripping into the fabric of the business of teaching fiction writing with knife-edged one-liners and characters you love to despise; then, as the plot, the characterizations, and the theme take a hairpin turn, it emerges that, no, the teaching is not a scam after all, the s
'How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note?' asked critic Michael Billington after seeing the original 2000 London production of Sarah Kane's 4.
If shifting psychodynamics are your thing, this version caters to your taste.
Wow to the theater, a three-tier structure that echoes the layout of Shakespeare's own Globe.
There is nothing wrong with the handsome production director Kwame Kwei-Armah has given us, from the amazing two-storey set by Timothy R.
So far as I know, Toby's staging of Memphis: The Musical is the first local production to date in the Baltimore area, certainly one of the first, and a worthy introduction of the show to the region.
We come into life with a desire to do meaningful things, just as an understudy comes into the theater motivated to produce great thespian art.
The heart of the operetta's appeal is the sublime silliness of its premise: pirates from the era of sail plundering Victorian steamships.
Trip needs to get himself and his family 'up north of the Boulevard' to a more civilized neighborhood.
This play, about a small group of black visionaries attempting to establish visibility in a white Oregon town which has excluded and disregarded them, is provocative but hard to follow.
Alex Podulke progresses by tiny gradations over the course of an hour and a half from impersonating a machine in speech and movement to a near-human in those regards, and one finds oneself saying, Of course that's how a machine trying to imitate a human would look, even though one has never seen it
There are the bones here of a perfectly respectable play about rape and what comes after in the U.
The duel of these two characters is so absorbing and funny that I have to rate her black (in all senses) comedy as the strongest in this year's Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
It's often been observed of Shakespeare that his plays don't tell you what he thinks about most subjects.
Eventually Gil wins the struggle for the right to define his mother's obsequies.
It is about sex, but mostly because that is where love starts.
It is gratifying that Christopher Durang's latest comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which is assuredly going to be produced in time by every community theater company in the country, gets its Baltimore premiere in style at Center Stage, as a sort of reference production by which other l
Of course, the musical is not just the tale of the working-out and the ultimate dispelling of a family curse.
The Last 5 Years is a treasure of the American musical theater, the quintessential chamber musical.
