BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

Hit Stephen Schwartz musical runs until school is back in session - August 21, 2011...

Don't miss this film showing ONLY this week-end at selected theater...

I have attended musicals at various community college theaters in the greater Baltimore area but I somehow never made it to Bel Air, specifically to Harford Community College which is the home base for the Phoenix Festival Theatre....

Sondheim musical gets the Eric Schaeffer treatment and closes June 19, 2011, but maybe not forever......

A bed, a side table, a phone. A man, a woman. Infidelity, doubt, murder, and clap-on-clap-off lighting. It's just a sampling of several original short plays part of the 3rd annual 'Friends & Neighbors Festival' at The Strand theater, now through June 19th...

Shaw classic ends run Sunday, June 19, 2011 and the Everyman season....

Sell outs cause one week extension to June 12, 2011...

In an era when Waller had to enter some of the places he played by a side door, it would have been inhuman to resist completely the allure of white privilege. It's all on view in his song LOUNGIN' AT THE WALDORF, which contrasts the kind of freedom and looseness he could enjoy performing in Harlem w...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Play by Lynn Nottage Ends June 5, 2011...

In the Greek myth of the same name, the sculptor Pygmalion creates his vision of the perfect woman, Galatea, and breathes life into the statue with the help of the gods. In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins changes the life of a cockney flower girl through the magic of langua...

I'm reminded of the old joke: It's only funny till someone gets hurt; then it's hilarious. Jacobean audiences liked the stage littered with corpses at the end; we settle for one or two corpses and people's lives shattered. And that this show certainly delivers. There may not be much depth to it, ...

Can a huge novel be transferred to a 90 minute play with three actors? ...

If you never cracked the incredibly thick binding of Crime and Punishment' in literature class, here's your chance to experience Dostoevsky's masterpiece of madness and murder stripped down to its essential elements....

I like a theater of ideas as much as the next reviewer, but found that, in this somewhat trackless waste of a play, the ideas were either inarticulately expressed, trite, or both. The Strand Theater Company, dedicated to providing opportunities for female artists, writers, designers and directors, ...

The effect is a bit like opening a sampler of candies; while enjoying one treat, you're looking forward to the next, and the next, and the next …...

Like the two-sided Kandinsky painting that hovers over the play, truth and illusion spin and blend in this depiction of the tenuous connections we seek to form in the modern world. ...

The Spotlighters' performance space is an interesting and often frustrating challenge - a theater-in-the-round (or really in the square) with four columns supporting the ceiling and interfering with sight-lines. But it is actually an excellent space for a chamber musical. The singers can be extrem...

Artistic Director Vince Lancisi Scores a Home Run...

Center Stage Examines Tragic Part of American History....

Another cartoon turned Broadway musical at the Hippodrome until April 3, 2011....

What a surprise it was to see a photo of E. Faye Butler in the March 18, 2011 edition of the national publication 'The Week' in which she stars in the musical Working at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place in Chicago....

The ground rules each year: three short one-act plays in which the parts for college-age actresses predominate, with female antagonists and female protagonists. My hat is tipped to a fine part of a cutting-edge program....