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BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Baltimore
Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

by Lisa A. Crayton — February 20, 2026
Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...
Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre

Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre

by Jack L. B. Gohn — February 11, 2026
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: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome

by Timoth David Copney — February 6, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
Enjoy Your ELF at Toby's in Columbia through January 4, 2026

Enjoy Your ELF at Toby's in Columbia through January 4, 2026

by Cybele Pomeroy — November 29, 2025
Enthusiastic performances, a snappy live band, bright costumes and lively dancing adorn Toby's production of ELF The Musical. This sweet and charming lighthearted family-pleaser will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Director/ Choreographer Mark Minnick delivers engaging group numbe...
Review: Jane Austen's PERSUASION at Chesapeake Shakespeare

Review: Jane Austen's PERSUASION at Chesapeake Shakespeare

by Jack L. B. Gohn — October 6, 2025
There is a great deal to like about the dramatization of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion, just opened at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. There’s Kristina Lambdin’s stunning military dress uniforms and high-waisted Regency dresses....
Review: BALTIMORE, LEND ME YOUR EAR! at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Review: BALTIMORE, LEND ME YOUR EAR! at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

by Daniel Collins — June 30, 2025
One does not have to be a fan of Shakespeare (or iambic pentameter) to know the tragic tale of JULIUS CAESAR – how this would-be-Emperor was felled by members of the Roman Senate, Caesar’s failure to beware the Ides of March, the famed line, “Et tu, Brute?”, before falling in a pool of blood...
Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID at Toby’s in Columbia is A Fine Kettle of Fish

Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID at Toby’s in Columbia is A Fine Kettle of Fish

by Cybele Pomeroy — June 19, 2025
Musicians and vocalists shine in an undersea world that’s full of color and liveliness, longing, love, and a desire for authenticity at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, Maryland. Mark Minnick directs Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID, playing through August 17th, 2025....
Review: HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE Sizzles At Iron Crow

Review: HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE Sizzles At Iron Crow

by Cybele Pomeroy — April 22, 2025
HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE, directed by Ann Turiano at Iron Crow, is highly polished and lovingly crafted. The Iron Crow team builds an experience that’s immersive, fascinating and a delight to the senses. Excellent acting and snappy dialogue augment unusual situations in this surreal show...
Review: THE MUSIC MAN at Toby's With Capital T

Review: THE MUSIC MAN at Toby's With Capital T

by Cybele Pomeroy — April 17, 2025
Salvation in the form of a children's band? Sure, why not? THE MUSIC MAN has captured the hearts of audiences for generations. Now, the beloved Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, Maryland undertakes this winner, through May 18, 2025. It's beautifully done and highly entertaining. ...
Review: SHUCKED at The Hippodrome

Review: SHUCKED at The Hippodrome

by Timoth David Copney — April 2, 2025
Theatre can be illustrative, informative, relevant, educational, emotional, edifying and useful as commentary on current events, past history, and predictive of the future. And sometimes, it’s just a damn funny good time with no redeeming social value whatsoever, and you don’t care because you�...
Review: A Lively Time At Toby's 9 TO 5 In Columbia

Review: A Lively Time At Toby's 9 TO 5 In Columbia

by Cybele Pomeroy — February 12, 2025
9 TO 5 at Toby’s is a treat for all your senses, with color-saturated visuals, harmonious, heartwarming songs created especially for the show and strong characters you’ll adore. It’s just the thing to relieve winter ‘blahs’ and get your toes tapping. Experienced performers have snappy timi...
THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Catch A Moonbeam at Toby's This Holiday Season

THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Catch A Moonbeam at Toby's This Holiday Season

by Cybele Pomeroy — December 22, 2024
An evening at Toby’s Dinner And Show in Columbia, Maryland for THE SOUND OF MUSIC is a clutter-free treat for your loved ones. Toby's presents a classic, now entertaining a fourth generation, that feels lush and rich with detail and meaning, and contemporary relevance. An audience favorite since t...
Review: THE LIFE OF PI at The Hippodrome

Review: THE LIFE OF PI at The Hippodrome

by Timoth David Copney — December 11, 2024
When I first learned about the movie Life of Pi, I confess I was less than curious, having neither heard of nor read the book. Several years later, when it was adapted into a movie and then a Broadway play—with stops along the way in London’s West End, where it racked up a slew of Olivier Awards...
Review: A FEW GOOD MEN Is More Than A Few Good Actors

Review: A FEW GOOD MEN Is More Than A Few Good Actors

by Cybele Pomeroy — November 29, 2024
Lumina Theatre’s A FEW GOOD MEN at Howard Co. Center for the Arts is More Than A Few Good Actors: visual details and realistic settings offer an intimate angle to audiences of this emerging theatrical company. ...
Review: DEATHTRAP at Spotlighters Is a Self-Referential, Funny, and Sometimes Scary D

Review: DEATHTRAP at Spotlighters Is a Self-Referential, Funny, and Sometimes Scary Delight

by Jack L. B. Gohn — November 18, 2024
Hall of Mirrors. Self-referential. Meta. All of these terms might be used to supplement the general category of Thriller into which Deathtrap, Ira Levin’s 1978 Broadway hit currently being resurrected at Spotlighters, fits. Yes, the play is (as a thriller should be) about lethal relationships and ...
A Series Of Shadowy Events: Happenstance Theater's CABARET NOIR

A Series Of Shadowy Events: Happenstance Theater's CABARET NOIR

by Cybele Pomeroy — October 31, 2024
Imagine ‘40s fashions, stark lighting, shadow-play, fog, fedoras, fistfights, physical comedy, femmes fatales, torch songs, desperation, dance, and dozens of puns: Happenstance Theater’s CABARET NOIR at Baltimore’s Theatre Project on Preston Street will thrill you with high-contrast comedy, d...
Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Is Horrifyingly Delicious

Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Is Horrifyingly Delicious

by Cybele Pomeroy — October 24, 2024
Is it time to Time Warp? Why, yes, yes it is. If it’s October on the East Coast, you can bet your Hot Patootie that there will be an abundance of Sweet Transvestites in many locations who Can Make You A Man at The Rocky Horror Show....
Review: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Superb JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE

Review: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's Superb JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE

by Jack L. B. Gohn — September 23, 2024
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

Review: POTUS Delivers Gross Hilarity at Everyman Theatre

by Jack L. B. Gohn — September 10, 2024
This is almost certainly the funniest thing you’re likely to see all year. Leave your delicate sensibilities behind and go....
Review: PILLAR RABBIT Hops Lively At Spotlighters through Sunday, August 25th

Review: PILLAR RABBIT Hops Lively At Spotlighters through Sunday, August 25th

by Cybele Pomeroy — August 20, 2024
In Mel Holley's PILLAR RABBIT, produced by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, you’ll meet characters you feel you already know, and laugh and cry with them. Director Ta'Von Vinson assembles an excellent multi-generational cast to perform against a beautiful set at historic Spotlighters Theatre in...
Review: Not in Kansas Anymore: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting at CATF

Review: Not in Kansas Anymore: Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting at CATF

by Jack L. B. Gohn — July 18, 2024
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. But with captivating characters and subject matter, this is still a play worth seeing....
Review: A Creepy ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN At Contemporary American Theater Festival

Review: A Creepy ENOUGH TO LET THE LIGHT IN At Contemporary American Theater Festival

by Jack L. B. Gohn — July 15, 2024
As a vehicle for making things go bump in the night, I’m not sure this show consistently hits the target. It is a bit too much of a human interest story for that, but a bit too bump-filled to work smoothly as a human interest story either. Yet there are some legitimate skin-crawling moments, and t...
Oh What A Night! My Eyes Adore JERSEY BOYS at Toby's in Columbia

Oh What A Night! My Eyes Adore JERSEY BOYS at Toby's in Columbia

by Cybele Pomeroy — July 14, 2024
Toby's in Columbia presents the ‘origin story’ of New Jersey natives who became The Four Seasons. The script of JERSEY BOYS is tight, the pace rapid: this script and these songs - the Four Seasons’ catalog, plus others- form a stellar example of a really GOOD jukebox musical. I recommend you g...
Review: A Stunning WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THAT BEAUTY? at Contemporary American Thea

Review: A Stunning WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL THAT BEAUTY? at Contemporary American Theater Festival

by Jack L. B. Gohn — July 10, 2024
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. It may suffer from some lack of restrai...
Review: A Wry Storyteller Narrates Horror and Recovery: THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH at

Review: A Wry Storyteller Narrates Horror and Recovery: THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH at CATF

by Jack L. B. Gohn — July 10, 2024
It's not an unfamiliar tale, following Holocaust victim Eddie Jaku from comfortable circumstances through horror and gradually out again. Because there has been a sizeable body of Holocaust literature, drama and cinema, little of this is exactly new to us. But Jaku’s personality, his wry way of de...
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