BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

Superb cast inauguarates gorgeous new space for Everyman Theatre....

The Baltimore debut of Neil Simon's Play 'Rose's Dilemma' at Audrey Herman's Spotlighters Theatre is a delight. This romantic comedy with serious overtones was brilliantly delivered by four actors under the direction of Roy Hammond....

If you wish to escape the bleak freeze of January in the happy land of Disney but can't get to Orlando, go to the Hippodrome. Strap yourself into a theater seat and get swept up in the ravishing theatrical ride of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST....

Enter Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of April 4, 1968. It is the last night of Martin Luther King's life....

I went through a fairly intense Agatha Christie phase before I hit double digits. I read her mysteries rabidly, watched all the old movies and even, thanks to a mother who was happy to feed both my whodunit and theater-going habits, saw The Mousetrap in London's West End at the ripe old age of 10. I...

Do not miss this concert/drama featuring the likes of Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley....

Making its tenth visit to Washington, DC, LES MISERABLES is still impressive, boasting a revised look and sound and a dynamic duo Jean Valjean and Javert, Peter Lockyer and Andrew Varela. The national tour makes a holiday season stop at the National Theatre through December 30....

'You can't be a real boy until you prove that you are good and honest,' says the fairy to Pinocchio. Thus begins Pinocchio the puppet's journey to boyhood staged at Red Branch Theatre Company in Columbia, Maryland....

Anyone concerned that the digital age has extinguished imagination in the young will find it's alive and well at the Pumpkin Theatre. When the children are asked to participate in its production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, their delight is infectious....

Should you take this journey to Kansas during a snow storm in the 1950's?...

Cirque du Soleil Meets Shakespeare and it works beautifully....

Head to Arena Stage for this new, challenging, and entertaining play with music....

Delicious DREAMGIRLS is given top notch production and is extended to January 13, 2013....

Here in Baltimore, it seems to be Bus Stop season. It's been less than a month since I reviewed the Spotlighters' community theater production of the William Inge 1955 classic; now it's Center Stage's turn. And of course Center Stage (or is it Centerstage these days?) gives it a full-dress professio...

It's like the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival arrives in Washington, DC until Dec. 9, 2012....

The Ephrons seem to have set out to make the point that on some profound level, women's clothes are themselves, and that women's very lives are bound up with their clothes and vice versa. But the case is not well-documented. And little of it bears the stamp of the Ephron wit. But the performances ar...

As autumn shadows grow and winter knocks at your door, you may find yourself craving a little Poe to go with the dark and chill. Center Stage is at your service with THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL-UTTERLY TRUE-FINAL STRANGE TALE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE....

The joy of watching a playwright perform her own piece comes from the insight and the passion she brings to it. Especially when the playwright perceives the performance-the entire production, really-as "a chance to make fun of myself," as Susan McCully describes Inexcusable Fantasies, her whip-smart...

Rep Stage continues its 20th Anniversary season with a compelling production of J. M. Barrie's haunted drama....

Final production at the Everyman Theatre's N. Charles Street theatre and then they must deal with a flood?...

The flaws I've mentioned are real, but are far from detracting altogether from the enjoyment Bus Stop has to offer. Inge not only speaks up for crazy love, but for rustics who in their own ways are crazy like foxes in their pursuit of it. Crazy like a fox is usually good, especially when presented b...

Through a series of vignettes, For That Which Returns (performed at Baltimore Theatre Project) explores the constantly shifting relationship of mother and daughter, unraveling how their reliance on and need for each other never wane despite their roles often flip-flopping as they age....

It's Halloween. Is POE a TRICK or a TREAT? Read on....

Othello is playing through November 17 at The Mobtown Players at Meadow Mills. It's the perfect play for this time of year when ghosts and zombies roam the streets and horror and fright are uppermost in everyone's mind....

Three veterans of World War I contemplate their lives, their mortality and a row of poplars just off in the distance in Tom Stoppard's HEROES, now at the Everyman Theater, the last play to be performed at the theater's current Charles Street location....