Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL at Toby's Dinner Theater
What did our critic think?If you don't have cable, watch SpongeBob Squarepants nor any clue why SpongeBob should be a Broadway musical, no worries.
Baltimore Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Baltimore.
Review: World War Two MUCH ADO? Who Knew?
What did out critic think? The essential attribute of the play, the combative romance of Benedick and Beatrice (Dylan Arredondo and Anna DiGiovanni), is the only truly sacred element of the play.
BWW Review: FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS at Audrey Herman's Spotlighters Theatre
Five wise-cracking southern belles come to know way more about each other than they intended as bridesmaids.
BWW Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD at The Hippodrome
For audience members of a certain age (like moi), jukebox musicals are much more than an evening’s entertainment.
BWW Review: Awash in Ideas and Fun: DREAM HOU$E at Baltimore Center Stage
Dream Hou$e is awash in ideas, about Latinx identity, about generational wealth transfers, about gentrification, about memory versus history, about personal authenticity, about priorities, about the inherent value of things, about the TV biz, etc.
BWW Review: A Great, Problematic Ride: HENRY V at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
To put the biggest problem in contemporary terms, terms which doubtless occurred to many members of the audience besides just me: Is this a play about Zelensky or is it a play about Putin? You can characterize it as the story of a small army’s gallant victory against a much larger and better-equip
BWW Review: ROCKY at Toby's Thinks Outside The Boxing
New talent joins Toby's regulars to present ROCKY THE MUSICAL at Toby's in Columbia.
BWW Review: PRETTY WOMAN at The Hippodrome
Pretty Woman, The Musical has shimmered onto the stage at Baltimore's Hippodrome and landed squarely on it's Jimmy Choo'd feet.
BWW Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at The Hippodrome
Because good theatre not only makes you feel the feels.
BWW Review: Thoughtful, Satisfying THE PROM at the Hippodrome
there's hardly a joke that misfires, hardly a dance step that doesn't thrill, and hardly a song that doesn't connect.
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL AT CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
God bless us everyone for this lovely start to the Holiday Season of theatre
BWW Review: FIRES IN THE MIRROR at Baltimore Center Stage: Really Listening To All Sides After A City Explodes
Fires in the Mirror is Anna Deavere Smith's now-classic theatre piece about the Crown Heights, Brooklyn disturbances of 1991, the singular point of which is that it's impossible to know exactly what to think about those events either.
BWW Review: What's Gonna Happen is a Hilarious Time: TOOTSIE at the Hippodrome
In the oft-repeated words of the character Sandy, sung in a hilarious patter-fest at strategic points in the musical of Tootsie, playing this week only at the Hippodrome, 'I know what's going to happen.
BWW Review: Catharsis and Spangles: DREAMGIRLS, ArtsCentric Style
Let’s stipulate that book writer and lyricist Tom Eyen and composer Henry Krieger were not Sondheim.
BWW Review: IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS FLURRIES INTO TOBY'S IN COLUMBIA
In the tradition of ‘40s musicals, WHITE CHRISTMAS tugs heartstrings and brightens spirits.
BWW Review: STILL AN AWFUL LOT OF FUN: WAITRESS AT THE HIPPODROME
Building on Adrienne Shelly’s sometimes grimly hilarious and frequently heartwarming 2007 movie of the same name, and realized for the musical stage by Broadway’s first all-female creative team in 2016, Waitress has been almost continuously on Broadway, apart from a COVID break which ended when
BWW Review: Perhaps a Little Too Short?
Mark Scharf is a master of the 10-minute play, except, perhaps, where he tries to use it to explore large themes.
BWW Review: Suicide Isn't Painless, But It Can Be Funny: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Single Carrot Theatre
There can be rational decisions to end one’s own life, but when such decisions are driven by most kinds of depression, which by definition are not rational, no one else, especially no one else touched by it, can make sense of it.
BWW Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Everyman Theatre
Audiences need each other as much as the performers need audiences; in the aisles we feed off each other's energy, helping each other get the jokes, experience the pathos, and admire the performances.
BWW Review: ELF - THE MUSICAL at Toby's Dinner Theater
Attending the musical ELF in July, (and August) in the air-conditioned comfort of Toby's, which is featuring reduced capacity pod seating until further notice, is a sweet novelty, and a community-supportive way to emerge from seventeen months of dormancy.
BWW Review: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's THE ADVENTURES OF PERICLES
Given all the slapstick in this staging (jousting with pool noodles, silly sound effects, outrageous costumes, sending a coffin to a sea burial down a playground slide, tossing a babe-in-arms around like a fumbled football), the endless choruses of What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor in which t
BWW Review: GHOST/WRITER at REPStage
Get lost listening to Dane Figueroa Edidi’s sensual and striking radio play GHOST/WRITER.
BWW Review: DERANGED LOVERS IN AN ENIGMATIC WORLD at Compass Rose Theatre
So while the course of true love does not run smooth when pursued by these slightly deranged lovers, it does in the end run true.
|
Bocking Baltimore Center Stage (8/14-9/06) |
|
Moon Festival Alice Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/26-10/18) |
|
The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
|
The Moors Maryland Ensemble Theatre (2/12-3/07) |
|
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Compass Rose Theater at Live Arts Maryland (9/18-10/04) |
|
|
Maybe Happy Ending Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (9/13-9/19) |
|
Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "SCHOOL FOR WIVES" Classic Theatre of Maryland (6/01-8/31) |
|
Bacon to School! "The Comedy Pigs" at MET Comedy Night Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/11-9/11) |
|
Hamilton (Angelica Company) Hippodrome Theatre- France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (3/09-3/28) |
|
Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Classic Theatre of Maryland (12/03-1/03) |