BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

A politically charged murder trial rocks a small Texas town when two wealthy brothers are accused of killing the stalker of a teenaged girl. A determined District Attorney jeopardizes his career in his relentless pursuit of the truth. ...

Jason Robert Brown's musical masterpiece is just plain wonderful....

Guest reviewer Mark Squirek provides his insights into local playwright Mark Scharf's HIRED GUN, a melodramatic meditation on aging, Fender guitars, delusions, the music business and marriage....

A show that gets liberal audiences to cheer for someone who at first blush would seem like a future Ann Romney is doing something pretty canny....

For a dark heist play, like a dark heist movie, to work, you need to populate it with hard male actors. Those are the rules. You need reservoir dogs, not reservoir show dogs....

2011 Tony Award-winning production plays until July 29, 2012...

Shana lives in a state of constant turmoil and instability as she is visited by a number of characters, each one attempting to budge her from a place of indecision and fear. Are they successful? Is Shana? This unsettling play, 'Shana Unsettled,' is part of the 31st annual Baltimore Playwrights Festi...

Will Charlie Brown ever win a baseball game or the love of a certain red-haired girl? Will Linus let go fo his blanket or Sally find her philosophy? Will Lucy become queen and Schroeder the next Beethoven? Will suppertime ever come soon enough for Snoopy?...

See the four-time Tony Award winner and you won't miss a beat....

To be gay was to be a criminal in Nazi Germany. Martin Sherman's play, 'BENT,' takes on the issue of homosexuality under Hitler's rule in this 2-act, 2+ hour production now at Baltimore's Mobtown Players theater....

This is a Music Man not to be missed. It's filled with great music, superb acting, lovely voices, and superb dancing....

"This play is not about my mother and me," says Lisa Kron at the beginning of her autobiographical play, WELL . Of course,WELL is all about the playwright and her long-suffering mother. It's a funny and sad examination of the intensely complicated relationship of mothers and daughters where love...

What do three prostitutes, an old man, a brother and sister on their way to Utah, a man seeking his grandfather, a faded southern belle, among others, all have in common? They're all about to be evicted from 'The Hot L Baltimore,' now at the Spotlighters Theater....

Oh what a circus, oh what a show...THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS extended to July 8 by popular demand....

Glass Mind Theatre's third-annual short-play festival pairs playwrights with play settings submitted by audience members....

You can take it to the bank though, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU is a hit!...

A typographer, a geographer and a stenographer sit down at a bar. There's no punch line to be found in Iron Crow Theatre Co.'s production of Adam Bock's The Typographer's Dream, but rather an unveiling of personalities and of how so often what we do is inseparable from who we are....

XANADU will bring you ninety minutes of non-stop fun and enjoyment....

Baltimore welcomes E. Faye Butler in her all-new act, 'What a Difference a Diva Makes'....

'Let My People Go' given a new meaning in this terrific production...

Complex play by Lynn Nottage Deserves Your Attention...

There's nothing more personal than theater in the round, especially when it's on such an intimate scale as that at Spotlighters Theatre where there's a maximum of three rows of seating on each side. And it seems a fitting way to get to know Dolly Gallagher Levi, star of Hello, Dolly!, since her grea...

The portrayal of Edna by Lawrence B. Munsey is outstanding; more than any other Edna I've seen, Munsey brings out the femininity and vulnerability of the character without sacrificing her drag queen strut at appropriate moments....