BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

Restoration comedy ends Everyman's hugely successful inaugural season....

Sondheim's masterpiece is given riveting production and should not be missed....

A wealth of talent has come together to produce The Guardsman at the Kennedy Center. It is a handsome production, worthy of any stage in the nation. Playwright and translator Richard Nelson has created a multi-layered dramatic comedy based closely on Ferenc Molnar's original 1910 play. With directi...

Questions of art, gender and cross-dressing run rampant through 'Act a Lady,' a thought-provoking comedy now at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The show focuses on six members of a Prohibition-era Midwestern town aiming to put on an 18th century 'fancy dress' play to raise money for charity. But it's...

Artisitic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah successfully adds his play to the 'Raisin Cycle'....

An ensemble to remember is key to Shakespeare's tragicomedy....

There's music, dance, comedy, tragedy, great performances but it just seems to take forever....

Tony-winning musical brings a breath of fresh air to dinner theatre patrons....

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's 'A RAISIN IN THE SUN,' Kwame Kwei-Armah's 'Beneatha's Place' muses on what might have happened when Beneatha Younger and Nigerian political activist Joseph Asagai, left Chicago to live in a Nigeria still fighting for independence from British rule....

"Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse" currently playing at Pumpkin Theatre is a wonderful tale for kids young and old with empowering messages disguised as childrens stories....

Packed audience at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall hears a perfomrance to treasure....

In The Heights is not standard Maryland dinner theater fare, concerning, as it does, the residents of a largely Dominican and Puerto Rican barrio at the northern end (and highest part) of Manhattan. The lyrics are often in Spanish, often delivered in rap monologue, and largely assume a kind of cul...

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, who wrote this rock opera's lyrics, and his punk rock band that created its unstoppably vibrant music weren't going for "comfortable." They were aiming, along with co-creator and director Michael Mayer (who picked up a Tony for his direction of Spring Awak...

Another Pulitzer Prize winning play in Baltimore will help fill the seats at the new Everyman Theatre space....

Superb cast makes CLYBOURNE PARK a hit at Center Stage....

You only have until May 5 to hear some great melodies by the team that brought you MAMMA MIA!...

Two African-American brothers named Lincoln and Booth were left to live on their own with any parents, surviving as street hustlers. Now grown men, their names and histories haunt them in Suzan-Lori Parks' play, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, now at the Everyman Theatre....

Hit French farce I'm sure will improve with age....

This was an undergraduate audience, clearly, and they were rapt and engaged. Yet it was a knowing engagement. By that, I do not mean that the kids came in knowing the tunes and humming along, in fact it was obvious from the laughs and the gasps when funny or shocking things occurred that a large par...

A first-rate production of a second-rate show. The astonishing cast delivers song after song that sails out of the park....

Center Stage announces the Baltimore premiere of Bruce Norris' 'Cylbourne Park,' the first of two plays slated to run in rotating repertory this spring as 'The Raisin Cycle,' picking up where playwright Lorraine Hansberry left off in her famed work, 'A Raisin in the Sun.'...

We have not only laughed our heads off, not only witnessed the fulfillment, however temporary, of transgressive bachelor-in-paradise fantasies, but also been treated to something rarer: a visual reimmersion in the colors and sights of the most carefree part of an era: the coordinated uniforms and fl...

Playwright Tim Firth's play is given splendid production....

You will laugh out loud, even though you know what's coming next....

With EQUUS, the Spotlighters Theatre puts on what may well be the best show I've seen them perform. All aspects of the production are superbly executed, and the intimate space is an ideal venue for this taut psychodrama written by Peter Shaffer (Amadeus)....