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BWW Review: ALL MY SONS at The Vagabond Players
How characters view life and the value they place on it is at the core of Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS, directed by Michael Byrne Zemarel at the Vagabond Players Theater in Baltimore....
BWW Review: Disorienting Play, Tour-de-Force Performance: THE OTHER PLACE at The REP
It is a tour-de-force for the actress who portrays Juliana. Juliana is called on to deliver a huge range of emotions, sharp at some times, pathetic at others. She must be violent, querulous, authoritative, analytical, disoriented, witty, nicotine-deprived, paranoid, serene ... etc., etc., etc. She m...
BWW Review: Mean Girls, Primary Colors and Grand Guignol: HEATHERS at Red Branch
It is a safe bet that at every institution of secondary education with female students, there are Mean Girls. It is also a safe bet that there isn't a reader who needs the term defined, because there probably isn't a reader who hasn't experienced Mean Girls - or been one of them. And one trait we kn...
BWW Review: Pennybags and Henny Penny: Financially Farcical CRASH AND BURN at Theatrical Mining Company
Such dramatic suspense as exists in Crash and Burn hangs on the question whether it is possible Financier Milty has outsmarted himself (perhaps out-stupided himself might be a better phrase) by retaining two such paragons of dimness, greed, and vanity as Lawyers Crash and Burn to represent him: Migh...
BWW Review: Be Mystified by HOAX at MAP
If you've an interest in the unusual, if you have sampled traditional theatre and avant garde theatre and found them both not quite what you wanted, if you'd like to gather a few of your friends and your favorite '50s fancy duds, if you'd like an evening out that isn't clubbing and isn't pizza, do c...
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Dominates Musically In Annapolis
If you belong to a particular subset of music aficionados, you may love this show. Vocally and instrumentally, the performers do an excellent job of animating beloved legends.Their musicianship is impressive and Musical Director Amy Jones has done a terrific job creating authentic-sounding rendition...
BWW Review: Lush, Untranslated, and Disorienting: THE WEDDING GIFT at CATF
We watch as Doug takes stock of his situation, recognizes the failure of vision on the part of his captors, their inability to see him as a fellow-human, and recognizes what this means in terms of his power and his lack of power. It is a humbling lesson, but one he needs to learn to survive....
BWW Review: Boomers Considering What They Were and Are: 20th CENTURY BLUES at CATF
Perhaps most important, 20th Century Blues (notwithstanding its title) addresses, from the inside and the outside, the universal experience of aging, an experience common to all times and places....
BWW Review: Sloppy PEN/MAN/SHIP at CATF
Charles, the ship-charterer (Brian D. Coats), is a black man who believes himself superior to all the black people who surround him. He has internalized the view held by Jim Crow America of African Americans as the inferior "other," but in order to entertain that view he necessarily has mentally set...
BWW Review: Poignant and Powerful TICK, TICK...BOOM! at Spotlighters Theatre
The Jonathan Larson musical should not be missed....
BWW Review: A Working Kitchen in THE SECOND GIRL at CATF
What makes The Second Girl a comedy more than anything else is Cathryn Wake's electrifying performance as Cathleen, a confection of flashing eyes, red hair, a tell-the-truth-and-shame-the-devil attitude, and naked ambition. Her vivacity is inescapable....
BWW Review: Comparing Small Things To Great: NOT MEDEA at CATF
The great legends and myths have their roots in common human experience. Yet it is not always obvious which experience gives rise to them. Take the myth of Medea, the sorceress who aided the hero Jason and who, when Jason cast her aside to make a politically expedient marriage, murdered their two ...
BWW Review: EVITA at Olney Theatre Center - Stunning and Innovative
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's flashy musical gets a different take....
BWW Review: Feet Planted Firmly In The Air: HAIRSPRAY at Toby's
Hairspray is, in fact, a great raspberry blown in the face of realistic expectations, a visit to a fantasyland where cruelty and meanness and class pretensions stand no chance. And we never get tired of watching that raspberry get blown....
BWW Review: BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at the Kennedy Center - A Glorious Musical
Jason Robert Brown proves once again to be one of Broadway's brightest and best composers....
BWW Review: HAIRSPRAY in Concert with Baltimore Symphony Featuring John Waters as Narrator
Audience is enthralled with BSO again featuring the musical HAIRSPRAY...
BWW Review: Love Story Heartthrobs in LOVE LETTERS Play
If you love Love Letters, if you want to Oliver and Jennifer again (sort of), or you just want to see two old professionals having gentle fun together, this show's for you....
BWW Review: Thrilling NEVERWHERE: A Signature Production for an Ambitious New Company
I know a gripping mythos when I see one. This is the real deal. If you have the kind of imagination that responds to graphic novels and Game of Thrones, this one is for you. You will find yourself transported for three hours into a world completely different from our own, but it is nevertheless deta...
BWW Review: Vagabonds' MOON OVER BUFFALO Keeps the Audience in Stitches
Driven to a frenzy by the thought that director film director Frank Capra is in the audience, the Hay family and their retinue get completely confused about the play to be performed for him. Is it Private Lives or Cyrano de Bergerac? It kinda matters which, since the two plays aren't interchangeable...
BWW Review: The Clarinet Factory Performs at Prague Spring Festival
It was quite a performance at the National Technical Museum....
BWW Review: Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at The Hippodrome
Be their guest at the Hippodrome for Disney's lavish musical, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...
BWW Review: Theatre Project Welcomes Back Happenstance With BROUHAHA
The performers of Happenstance Theater engage, intrigue, cavort, emote and display both physical precision and a remarkable range of organically produced sound effects. BROUHAHA's story, insofar as there is a story, lies in the development of the relationship between this cadre of classical clowns a...
BWW Review: Everyman Theatre Presents the Great American Rep - A Rotating Rep of Epic Scale
Two shows in Repertory: DEATH OF A SALESMAN and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE...it just doesn't get better than this....
BWW Review: A Stunning PORGY AND BESS With the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Morgan State University Choir
What a thrill it was to hear George Gershwin's opera with the BSO under Maestra Marin Alsop....
BWW Review: Roundhouse CABARET Packs An Outsized Wallop
This Sally (Andrea Goss) is definitely British, definitely a waif and of limited talent, and has her eyes wide open to the hell her generation of revelers is headed toward in a handcart. Her biggest number, Cabaret, is delivered as nearly a de profundis, a wail of a trauma victim....
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The View Upstairs Iron Crow Theatre (5/29-6/14) |
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Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
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The Importance of Being Earnest New Spire Arts (7/24-8/20) |
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MET's Variety Show Maryland Ensemble Theatre (5/29-5/30) |
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The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Hood College's Avalon Theater (5/15-5/30) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Baltimore (7/11-7/11) |
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Everything Brilliant Thing Maryland Ensemble Theatre (5/14-6/14) |
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Getaway From Here The Irreverent Theatre (6/19-6/27) |
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Weird Al Yankovic at Merriweather Post Pavilion Merriweather Post Pavilion (8/02-8/02) |
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