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Getting Americans in a frame of mind where they'll despise British aristocrats is like shooting fish in a barrel (unless they're Americans who happen to be still in a daze from a viewing of Downton Abbey).
Few musicals make you smile, clap and sing along in your seat like JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT.
Director Paige Hernandez does a masterful job in a play about boxing and racism.
One of the things drama does so well is to make us think and feel about the vectors a society is following.
Walter Bobbie demonstrates his amazing direction.
Gothic horror takes over the Chesapeake Shakespeare Theater as they sink their teeth into DRACULA
There's much to like about this production of THE BODYGUARD, story aside.
All politics is personal, as the saying goes.
Bright Half Life is presented in a totally nonsequential fashion, and at nearly breakneck speed much of the time.
At the Everyman Theatre, director Paige Hernandez delivers a beautifully rendered revival of David Auburn's play PROOF which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
The title Perfect Arrangement refers to the compact of a male gay couple and a lesbian couple to hide in plain view from the disapproval of the world in 1950 by posing as two straight couples living in adjoining halves of a Georgetown duplex.
Keeping us gasping is what Cabaret in all of its incarnations has always been about.
It is not often one opens a theater program and on page one sees a letter from composer Stephen Sondheim.
A potpourri of beautiful music from Gilbert & Sullivan to Broadway.
Support Group for Men will send you away happy.
Dougherty unspools the stories of Chester and Dr.
Then the government, represented by its functionary Lucius (Michael Rogers), brings in Shimeus (Wade McCollum), a derelict of another sort, whimpering and traumatized by an arson that killed everyone else in his family.
It's an old trick, but a good one: Set two contrasting dramatic tones (usually domestic comedy and dread) against each other and let them fight it out throughout a play.
The drama works because of the intriguing way the characters' ideas about how to act in response to Marian Anderson's two provocative exclusions (first from Nassau Inn and then from Constitution Hall) shift repeatedly in response to new information, so that consensus is almost impossible to achieve,
And now of course we are into the story of Antonio's family of origin, and the world of his origin, which has conditioned him to behave this way, which implicitly and explicitly looks to its men to solve problems with violence.
Credit Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer for this season on a high.
Let me admit when I saw MATILDA on Broadway in 2013 (winner of 5 Tony Awards), I did not enjoy it.
Berowne gloomily foresees: 'Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three year's space.
BWW Review: DISASTER! at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre at Essex Community College is a HOOT
A thinly-disguised parable of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui may have been written in 1941, but it may as well have been addressed directly to Americans of 2019.
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Bocking Baltimore Center Stage (8/14-9/06) |
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Moon Festival Alice Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/26-10/18) |
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The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
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The Moors Maryland Ensemble Theatre (2/12-3/07) |
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Compass Rose Theater at Live Arts Maryland (9/18-10/04) |
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Maybe Happy Ending Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (9/13-9/19) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "SCHOOL FOR WIVES" Classic Theatre of Maryland (6/01-8/31) |
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Bacon to School! "The Comedy Pigs" at MET Comedy Night Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/11-9/11) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) Hippodrome Theatre- France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (3/09-3/28) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Classic Theatre of Maryland (12/03-1/03) |
