BALTIMORE THEATER REVIEWS

There is always a reason a warhorse gets to become a warhorse. Here, the fun stems from some reversals, a couple of sucker-punches to the expectations of both the characters and the audience, and the ebb and flow of the alliances and enmities around the jury-table. There are five logical set-pieces...

'Simply Complicated: The Elegant Escapades of a Danish-Israeli Opera Singer Tank Commander'...

If you haven't seen a Pinter play...do some research before you head to Center Stage....

It was back on December 8, 2010 that I had the pleasure to see Luke Grooms perform for the very first time at the intimate Germano's Trattoria. Housed on the second floor of the lovely Italian restaurant, Cyd Wolfe and her husband Germano have established a successful quaint home for cabaret perform...

The Little River Band had one big hit entitled 'Reminiscing'. In the Everyman Theatre production of Shooting Star, baby-boomers will be reminiscing all night long as playwright Steven Dietz loves to bring a little nostalgia for those who attended college in the late sixties and early seventies. Di...

Martin McDonagh's comedy deserves the standing ovation it achieved....

Get your tickets now to see this entertaining musical based on the singing group 'The Four Seasons' which Ends Feb. 27, 2011....

A philosophy professor returns home to London from America with his wife in tow to meet his family. A simple enough premise, but in the hands of absurdist playwright Harold Pinter, the result is something less than warm and fuzzy....

The National Theatre of Scotland's Presentation Closes Sunday, Feb. 7, 2011....

Contrast that with the loving attention to the stamps. Playwright Rebeck tells us all about the stamps, educates us, in fact, as the play goes on. And the pinnacle of the play, as a dramatic experience, is the moment Sterling gets to see them, after an enormous buildup. The payoff is worth it. S...

Come to laugh so hard, you may cry!...

These songs were great pop art that stirred up deep emotions and were taken seriously by their initial listeners....

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Gets a Top Notch Production Directed by Eric Schaeffer...

Tour of Tony-winning Lincoln Center Production at the Kennedy Center Until January 16, 2011...

Theatre's First Attempt at a Musical is a Huge Success...

Historic Live Simulcast to the World Takes Place Thursday, December 16, 2010...

Classic Arthur Miller Play Extended Due to Popular Demand to December 18, 2010...

Artistic Director Molly Smith's 'OK' is a 'KO!'...

Director Michael Carleton has envisioned Richard as the prototype of the amoral modern politician who will stop at nothing to achieve power. While professing the purest and most altruistic of motives, he holds no allegiance but to himself; he is the master of media and manipulator of appearances. ...

The chaos around the microphones completely belies the smoothness of the product going out over the airwaves. Welles, standing on a podium, presides over the process with a cocky young man's assurance that this madness will work....

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But there are deeper and more troubling dimensions to Norman: an irritability that hints of the total dessication of soul, a wildness that mingles a strong self-defeating quality with a degree of menace. You can never tell what Norman will do next, which makes him fascinating to watch. ...

Short stay at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre ends Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010...

And he does it at Baltimore's Center Stage, his hometown. Can it get any better than this?...

Baltimore theatergoers may be pardoned for not being familiar - yet - with the Atlas District in North East Washington, but this emerging arts-and-entertainment area, focused on about four blocks of H Street, is well worth getting to know. The core is the Atlas Performing Arts Center, an Art Deco m...