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Annapolis Opera Presents SUSANNAH, Final Show For Retiring Directors
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
Annapolis Opera will present Carlisle Floyd's tragic American opera, Susannah, on Friday, March 13 (7:30pm) and Sunday, March 15 (3pm), as well as an Opera Insight Series preceding the performances. Both performances and programs will be held at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, located at 801 Chase Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. Tickets are available here.
Dundalk Community Theatre Presents MAMMA MIA!
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
Dundalk Community Theatre, in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, presents MAMMA MIA!, based on the music of ABBA. Performances will be held at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. on Sundays, March 6 a?" 15 in the College Community Center, John E. Ravekes Theatre, at CCBC Dundalk. Ticket prices are $22 (adults), $19 (seniors) and $15 (children).
BWW Review: An Amusing and Engaging FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE at Strand Theater
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 25, 2020
Turns out Undine doesn't exist in the public records beyond 15 years back because Undine was born Sharona Watkins, and cruelly deserted her folks' lives to reinvent herself with a highfallutin' name and a highfallutin' profession. Now she needs to rebuild the bridges she burned and reclaim Sharona-dom because Undine-ness has collapsed on her.
Photo Flash: Fells Point Corner Theatre Presents THE MINEOLA TWINS
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2020
Fells Point Corner Theatre presents The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel. Directed by Lindsey R. Barr.
Police Killings of Young Black Men Viewed Through The Lens of Eternity: KILL MOVE PARADISE at REP Stage
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 23, 2020
While there are four characters in Kill Move Paradise, and they are endowed with names and hints at backstories, their individual identities don't matter much. They are unified more than distinguished, engaged as they are in a common enterprise, chorally addressing the same issues. Specifically, they are all African American men, all (apparently) killed by police gunfire, who are still coming to terms with the ongoing trauma attendant upon being born black and therefore vulnerable to what happened to them in today's America. And, having landed in an afterlife of some kind, they are required now to come to awareness of their present circumstances, and apparently to heal from the inner wounds their earthly lives have inflicted.
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF DAYS at The Colonial Players is a Creative Take on Small Town America
by Kristen Price - February 23, 2020
Colonial Players production of Lanford Wilson's play THE BOOK OF DAYS, is a creative take on one of the playwright's lesser known works. The piece, which tells the story of the townsfolk in Dublin, Missouri, is billed as a murder mystery, though I think it's less about the mystery of who, and more about how it came to this. Events in the work unfurl unusually, with characters informing the audience of each passing day. It's quite a different way to tell a story and allows the audience to see just how easily and quickly action escalates.
The Vagabond Players Present CONSTELLATIONS
by BWW News Desk - February 21, 2020
The Vagabond Players continues its 104th season with the critically acclaimed romantic comedy/drama CONSTELLATIONS by Nick Payne. Have you ever wondered a?oeWhat if?a?? What if you could relive a moment and change the outcome? What if there were infinite universes, making infinite realities possible? This spell-binding, time-traveling tale begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman---but what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know. The surprising story of the parallel universes that Roland and Marianne inhabit is funny, touching and universal in every sense of the word---- a story that is one for the heart as much as one for the mind.
Baltimore's CSC Announces THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2020
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company continues its 2019-2020 Season with the interactive parody of Shakespeare's works, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), directed by CSC Founding Artistic Director Ian Gallanar. Complete Works runs Mar. 6-29, with previews Mar. 4-5, and press night Mar. 6.
Tickets For The Baltimore Premiere Of DEAR EVAN HANSEN Will Go On Sale February 21
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2020
The Hippodrome Theatre announced today that individual tickets for the Baltimore premiere of DEAR EVAN HANSEN will go on sale February 21 at 10 am. Tickets will be available to purchase by visiting BaltimoreHippodrome.com, calling 800.982.ARTS or visiting the Hippodrome Theatre Box Office at the corner of Eutaw St and Baltimore St. For the most up-to-date pricing information, please visit Ticketmaster.com.
BWW Review: Annapolis Shakespeare Company Has Great Fun with ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE 39 STEPS and So Will You
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 20, 2020
Now presented by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company in Patrick Barlow's adaptation (London 2006, Broadway 2010), The 39 Steps is part music hall, part slapstick, part sex comedy, part thriller a?" and requires the skills necessary for each. Add to this that it contains 157 roles written to be performed by only four actors.
BWW Review: Baltimore Shakespeare Factory Manufactures a Muddled, Overwhelmed HENRY V
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 20, 2020
It isn't easy to stage Shakespeare's Henry V (1599). It's a big play), with a large complement of characters. Structurally, it is partly built around a siege and a battle, each of which occurs onstage. There are scenes and pageantry in two royal courts. No wonder, then, the directors tend to cut the lines, scenes, and dramatis personae to what they deem manageable proportions. Given all these challenges, the theatrical company taking on Henry V must be at the top of its game. And this time Baltimore Shakespeare Factory is not. It's an honorable failure, but BSF is simply overwhelmed.
DESSA ROSE By Ahrens And Flaherty Will Have a Concert Performance At Olney Theatre
by BWW News Desk - February 19, 2020
Dessa Rose, the second installment of Olney Theatre Center's Applause Concert series bows for its single performance on Friday, March 6 at 8:00pm on the Mainstage. The musical, presented in a concert recital directed by Monique Midgette is a 2005 work by the famed duo Lynne Ahrens (Book and Lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (Music) based on the 1986 novel by Sherley Ann Williams. Christopher Youstra, Olney Theatre's Associate Artistic Director/Director of Music Theatre and the series curator serves as music director and conductor. Awa Sal Secka plays the title role, Gracie Jones co-stars as Ruth. Members of the cast of Miss You Like Hell fill-in the supporting roles. Limited tickets remain. ($60/$50 Olney Theatre Center Members) Purchased online at olneytheatre.org/dessa or call the Box Office (301-924-3400).
BWW Review: WICKED at THE HIPPODROME
by Daniel Collins - February 17, 2020
Chances are, as America is an increasing book-abhorrent culture, most folks familiar with THE WIZARD OF OZ know only of the 1939 Judy Garland film, versus author L. Frank Baum's children's 1900 book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. While the book and the film are fairly well aligned as children's entertainment, author Gregory Maguire's 1995 spin on the story, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is most definitely for the adults. Political upheaval, adultery, multiple murders, family dysfunction, betrayal, it's downright Shakespearean. All three serve as fantastical fodder for Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway production of Wicked, a sort of Oz-ian 'Odd Couple,' were Neil Simon a fan of J.R.R. Tolkein and J. K. Rowling: 'On Ozmember the 13th, Elphaba was asked to remove herself from her place of residence; that request came from her father. Deep down, she believed he was right, but knew that someday she would return. With nowhere else to go, she appeared at university and meets Galinda, fresh off an off-Broadway run of LEGALLY BLONDE. Can two strange women share a dorm room together without driving each other crazy?'
Photo Flash: First Look at CHICAGO At The Milburn Stone Theatre!
by BWW News Desk - February 16, 2020
The Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College is ready to present the longest running American show on Broadway, Chicago, for the first time in its twenty-eight-year history. Chicago was originally written as a play in 1926 by Chicago tribune courthouse reporter, Maurine Dallas Watkins. Chicago was famously turned into a Broadway musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb and directed and choregraphed by Bob Fosse. Chicago was the winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The 2002 film adaptation went on to win six academy awards including “Best Supporting Actress” and “Best Picture.”
BWW Review: RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY Celebrates its World Premiere at Baltimore Center Stage
by Kristen Price - February 15, 2020
The new play RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY, written by Noah Diaz and directed by Taylor Reynolds, had its world premiere at Baltimore Center Stage Thursday evening. The play is a simultaneously quirky and heartfelt look at grief, loss and accessibility.  While the Dick & Jane stories, the characters names and play's title have been derived from, have been around for decades, this play is entirely new and definitely of today. It depicts a family dealing with grief, past and future, and the struggles of those with differing abilities.
GUN & POWDER at Signature Theatre - World Premiere Musical is Hottest Ticket in Town!
by Charles Shubow - February 14, 2020
Inspiring musical by Angelica Cheri and Ross Baum examines race, family and identity in the Wild West.
MAMMA MIA Returns to Dundalk Community Theatre March 6
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2020
Dundalk Community Theatre presents MAMMA MIA!, based on the music of ABBA. Performances will be held March 6 a?" 15th.  Adult tickets are $22, Senior tickets are $19 and Children are $15.
Everyman Theatre Announces Inaugural Season Of NEW VOICES FESTIVAL
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2020
Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi is pleased to announce the inaugural season of Everyman Theatre's NEW VOICES FESTIVAL. The three-play, two-month festival includes QUEENS GIRL: BLACK IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, BERTA, BERTA by Angelica Chéri, and CRY IT OUT by Molly Smith Metzler, and runs in repertory from March 3 through May 3, 2020.
BWW Review: THE SHADOW BOX at Spotlighters Theatre
by Tina Collins - February 11, 2020
Learning to mediate loss is the secret to celebrating life. Learn to live and let go with three who are in THE SHADOW BOX at the Spotlighters Theatre.
The Game is Afoot with BASKERVILLE – A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY at Way Off Broadway
by BWW News Desk - February 11, 2020
The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is preparing to welcome one of the greatest detectives in literary history this spring with its production of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.
STAND-UP SILVER SPRING Is Back At Post 41!
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2020
Stand-Up Silver Spring is everybody's favorite local comedy spot. Come on out for the hilarious Wendy Wroblewski, Dominic Rivera, Liz Barlow and Allan Sidley. Guaranteed laughs at the very chill and supremely hospitable Post 41. You need to laugh? We make it happen!  
Adventure Theater Honors Media Legend Donald Thoms at 2019 Gala
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2020
Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC), recipient of the Harold Oaks Award, a national award for excellence in Theatre for Young Audiences, is pleased to announce that it will honor Donald Thoms with the Spirit of Adventure Award on March 19, 2020 at its 2020 Spring Gala for his accomplishments in delighting and educating families through the medium of television and providing opportunities for talented individuals, especially people of color. Thoms's career spans more than 45 years, most of it in Public Television as well as at the Discovery Communications.
Howard County Arts Council is Now Accepting Applications for Community Arts Development Grant Program
by BWW News Desk - February 10, 2020
The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for its FY21 Community Arts Development Grant Program. The Community Arts Development Grant funds day-to-day activities for county arts organizations, as well as arts-related projects for new arts organizations or non-arts groups.
BWW Review: Weirdness Yields Insight in Masterly MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 10, 2020
If we can climb beyond the foothills of the weird norms of the dramatic universe, we can take in how marvelously has Shakespeare anticipated some issues we must confront today. Showing us the Duke's deputy Angelo telling novice nun Isabella that he will save her brother Claudio from the executioner, but as a certain contemporary leader would put it, he a?oeneeds a favor from her, though,a?? or showing us Angelo defending himself from public accusations of sexual harassment by pleading a good reputation we know is maintained only by threats, conspiracy theories, and spurious claims about his accusers, or showing us Angelo getting his way (he thinks) by making promises he has no intention of keeping, Shakespeare conducts us to very familiar territory.
August Wilson's THE PIANO LESSON Comes to Morgan State University
by BWW News Desk - February 08, 2020
In October of 2019, Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap directed the Morgan State University (MSU) commemoration of 400 years of African presence in America. This commemoration continues at MSU this February 21st- 23rd and 27th-29th, 2020 as Dr. Dunlap directs August Wilson's The Piano Lesson from Wilson's Century Cycle, which documents the African-American experience, with each of the 10 plays set in a different decade of the 20th century.

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