BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

Eventually Gil wins the struggle for the right to define his mother's obsequies. He is handed the urn with her ashes. He has sole custody. But then what? While Gil doesn't have the answer, Mo does. It involves a car chase down I-95 and the Cinderella Castle Suite at Disneyland, and a vision of Adela...

The Baltimore Symphony, Folger Theatre Company, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society Women's Chorus combine for a musical delight....

Baltimore composer Adam Gwon is finally given a chance to show his extraordinary talent in Maryland....

Every now and then you come across a true theater experience, and Tribes at Everyman is one of them....

It is about sex, but mostly because that is where love starts. The effect is orgasm, of course, but it is also the breaking down of walls. As the barriers finally fall, the mood turns lyrical, and the action ends with a kind of latter-day echo of the wedding dance that would often finish a Shakespea...

What a hoot this Greek production of the Broadway musical was....

Stellar vocalists and instrumentalists deliver a fine and worthy tribute to John Kander and Fred Ebb....

THE FOREIGNER, an old-fashioned farce with all the classic elements- physical comedy, assumed identities, silly speech and general turmoil- continues through the 18th at Vagabond Players' Little Theatre in Fells Point, Maryland....

In New York, the show is enjoying a successful Off-Broadway revival at another theater, and in Columbia, Rep Stage is celebrating the production's 54th anniversary (as of May 3) with a sweet, whimsical production that is every bit as enchanting as the one that swept 13-year-old me off my feet....

Christopher Durang won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play with this hilarious comedy....

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage does it again with great comedy....

An unconventional hour of athletic performance art, depicting the life, dreams and final journey of Amelia Earhart as researched, imagined, written and performed by ariel artist Mara Neimanis....

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...

Ahrens/Flaherty Musical is a must see for families....

After a surreal opening sequence, non-linear vignettes explore the all-too-realistic intricacies of a woman trying to make her way in the world....

Of course, the musical is not just the tale of the working-out and the ultimate dispelling of a family curse. It is also a poignant account of a woman relating to a treasured younger brother and an even more treasured son in light of the early loss of the brother....

Think you know what it means to be manly? Feminine? Gay? Repressed?Angry? Promiscuous? Frigid? Fulfilled? Think again....

GHOST THE MUSICAL, based on the 1990 film Ghost, tours the US after a successful West End run with visual effects that enhance the magic of live theatre....

The creepily campy, gruesomely goofy premise of the 1960s classic Little Shop of Horrors begs audiences to leave their disbelief at the door and come along on a wacky ride requiring runaway imagination. The Maryland Institute College of Art's student-run Rivals of the West Theatre Co. is an ideal te...

The Last 5 Years is a treasure of the American musical theater, the quintessential chamber musical. Jason Robert Brown's mini-masterpiece boasts but two performers, a small musical ensemble, a challenging but moving score, and a simple but powerful structure designed to maintain dramatic equilibrium...

What could be more Baltimore than a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe? And the Iron Crow Theatre Co. does it with a delightfully queer spin that, true to the company's form, is artistic, entertaining and insightful....

Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown returns to being a vocalist for a special fund-raiser....

Bruce Randolph Nelson and Carl Schurr are both outstanding in a play about the theater....

Tony winning composer performs and conducts SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD with the Young Artists of America....