BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

Unlike any TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA you have ever seen...

The songbook of Jerry Leiber (1933-2011) and Mike Stoller (1933- ) is a natural for jukebox musical treatment, because it encompasses such variety that it requires little by way of setting to stay interesting. You don't need a plot, you don't need performers to talk or act, all you need is a band, s...

Superb cast demands a visit to the Arena Stage...

Eugene O'Neill lived a strange and somewhat sad life during the first half of the 20th century, and despite the playwright being exceptionally lauded for his written works (he was the first American ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature), O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, running at the Fells Point C...

A youthful cast, showcasing a number of talents from Morgan State University, brings out Waller's exuberance and his ambivalence....

As playwright Michael Weller intelligently conveys, except in the most empty marriages, no matter what the parties may have done to each other, there are still ties of love holding them together. In living through these crises, then, both forces, the centripetal and the centrifugal, must have a part...

Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner's adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD receives its third production-the first in nearly 25 years-at CENTERSTAGE....

It's been said that laughter is the best medicine, and in some cases, it may even be the best antidote. The Vagabond Players' Arsenic and Old Lace brings a 70-plus-year-old script involving the manifestations of insanity in an established Brooklyn family gracefully and hilariously into the 21st cent...

Gershwin celebration also features pianist Steward Goodyear performing 'Rhapsody in Blue'....

Actress Holland Taylor adds playwright to her successful resume....

Because of popular demand,Shakespeare play has been extended to January 7, 2012. Controversy over the names of some characters requires STC to make changes....

Do not miss this dance musical based on the film of the same name....

What a way for Signature Theatre to end 2011...you just can't stop the beat!...

A play that certainly deserves the title: much ado about nothing!...

The Pumpkin Theatre is making magic with its charming production of Rapunzel. Its colorful sets, elaborate costumes and lively performances pull the audience into a fantasy land of vengeful witches, damsels in distress and princes on heroic quests....

With a title like Glitter and Spew, you'd think this three-act play would be highly energetic-ebullient, even-and dazzlingly polished. During a holiday entertainment season trimmed with endless renditions of The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, the production is the Strand Theater Co.'s attempt to ...

David Mamet play ends its run December 11, 2011...

Sold-out run extends Coward classic until December 11, 2011....

There's something powerful that happened on the corner of North Avenue and Howard Street. Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" played the Load of Fun Complex through November 27 and through the brilliance of Tennessee Williams, we witnessed this complex Southern family portrait as they battle...

While this production borrows its title from a childish poem, it should by no means be mistaken for children's entertainment, and in fact, an early scene's full-frontal male nudity audibly takes the full house at Fells Point Corner Theatre by surprise. But the adult content shares quite a few themes...

A 1970s resale shop in Chicago is the setting for award-winning playwright David Mamet's 'American Buffalo,' now at Baltimore's Center Stage....

Amanda and Elyot loved each other, passionately. They fought, passionately. They divorced...probably passionately as well. When both find themselves remarried and enjoying their respective honeymoons at the same hotel, well, passions are soon enflamed. It's Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES, now at Baltim...

Christopher Sieber shines as Albin. George Hamilton...not so much....