BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

John Landry adapts the iconic Frank Capra 1946 film into a theatrical production....

Everyman's new location provides a warm home for the 'cozy' DEATHTRAP. The high production values and seamless performances create an evening of humor-filled suspense....

NEWSIES showcases enthusiastic, athletic, acrobatic dancing- the Company is chockablock with high-end dancers equal to the complications of Christopher Gattelli's choreography, which deservedly earned this show one of its Tony awards....

Director Robert O'Hara's first professional musical production is a huge success....

The Spotlighters brings George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's comedy, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. to their intimate stage just in time for the holidays....

At the end, the audience for this show is pulled not merely into the studio but into Bedford Falls, as the stage snow falls not only on the characters in the story set there but on the performers in the studio and on the audience as well. It is a perfectly magical double fourth-wall violation. Indee...

This season, Glass Mind is producing works that have never before seen the light of stage. This is a noble, perhaps edgy, seriously arty endeavour. It could go horribly, horribly wrong....

If you like MACBETH, there's every reason you'd enjoy Annapolis Shakespeare Company's current production of MACBETH. If you don't like MACBETH but are obligated to accompany someone who does, you won't find much to pick on other than that it's MACBETH. I personally have always felt that the interest...

Bring the family to see this kid-friendly musical that will delight all audiences....

Arena Stage honors librettist Sheldon Harnick celebrating FIDDLER'S 50TH Anniversary....

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...

If you're from Baltimore, you probably know there's no shortage of shows about the city's unofficial mascot, Edgar Allan Poe, often by impersonators who speak in the poet's voice. You may have seen one or more of them. I think I am personally acquainted with three actors who pay tribute to Baltimore...

Sign up for a trip in the 'Chair Force'....

Cabaret Macabre is a fun-filled romp of happy little horrors: merry morbid vignettes and musical numbers abound in this production by Happenstance Theater's ensemble of very capable physical comedians....

It's a foot tapping, finger snapping Ain't Misbehavin at Fells Point's The Vagabond Players...

Charlie Pollock and Bayla Whitten are compelling in a 'new edition' of ELMER GANTRY....

A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through early 1970s, the Rocky Horror Show featuring 'that sweet transvestite' and his motley crew time warp into the Spotlighters Theater in downtown Baltimore....

Or perhaps a better title for this review should be "pretty typical," i.e. typical for a modern American musical....

Director David Schweizer returns to Center Stage and directs a sublime musical....

I LOVE LUCY Live On Stage delivers, in full color and 3 dimensions, a nostalgic interactive experience of old-fashioned television magic, at the Hippodrome through October 26....

'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 4.48 Psychosis, her final theater piece, staged 16 months after Kane's self-inflicted death (by hanging in a psychiatric ward). T...

If shifting psychodynamics are your thing, this version caters to your taste. Tkel is excellent as she repeatedly changes voice and accent and affect, a Noo Yoouhk-accented noodginess and klutziness as Vanda, a Judy-Holliday-in-Born-Yesterday sprightliness as a slightly more empowered Vanda making s...

Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre Moves into downtown Baltimore....

What a way for Center Stage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah to open Center Stage's 52nd Season. He directs Peter Shaffer's brilliant play AMADEUS with an impeccable cast....

The Pumpkin Theatre's ALADDIN & THE MAGIC LAMP is a colorful and charming version of the famous fairy-tale. My delightful five-year-old guest became so engrossed in the story she forgot to sit down and looked like she might fly onto the stage to rescue the hero and his princess from the evil clutche...