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Review: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES at Vagabond Players


by Tina Collins - April 23, 2026

This staging of The Heidi Chronicles at the Vagabond Players finds the tension between what was promised and what was delivered, with performances that let the humor land and the questions linger....

Review: HER PORTMANTEAU at Strand Theater Company


by Lisa A. Crayton - April 23, 2026

What did our critic think of HER PORTMANTEAU at Strand Theater Company?...

Review: Let Down Your Hair at Stand Up For Theatre's RAPUNZEL, A Sweet Treat Family Show


by Cybele Pomeroy - March 26, 2026

SUFT has a great deal to be proud of with this production of RAPUNZEL: It's a cute and colorful show which even backstage is devoted to teamwork, personal ethics, resourcefulness and an untiring devotion to the quality of experience for people participating in theatre for perhaps their first time. S...

Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Is A Sumptuous Ride At CCBC Dundalk Through March 15, 2026


by Cybele Pomeroy - March 24, 2026

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: The beautiful theater inside of CCBC Dundalk hosts an equally beautiful production. What a treat to view this classic, seeing and hearing people respond to its twists and turns as if seeing it for the first time- or perhaps actually seeing it for the first time- realizi...

Review: CAESAR/AMERICANA at Fells Point Corner Theatre


by Jack L. B. Gohn - March 15, 2026

A logistically and artistically ambitious mashup of Shakespeare's play and modern American songs with some great acting....

Review: Iron Crow's NEXT TO NORMAL, Next To Hippodrome, at M&T Bank Exchange


by Cybele Pomeroy - March 14, 2026

Iron Crow’s brave production of NEXT TO NORMAL deserves a longer run. The script is a dramatic treatment of a nearly untouched topic, and the music is gorgeous and brilliantly rendered by excellent musicians and vocalists....

Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE at The Hippodrome


by Timoth David Copney - February 26, 2026

The Act II energy, the dazzling effects, and the powerhouse leads make for a wildly entertaining night at the theatre....

Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company


by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026

Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...

Review: DAWN at the Everyman Theatre


by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026

In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...

Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre


by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026

History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....

Past Shows

August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mar 28 – Apr 20, 2025

Set in a Chicago recording studio, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom chronicles a day in the life of the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and her...

The Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys
Jun 28 – Jul 21, 2024

Based on the true story of nine black men ripped from a train in Alabama and accused of rape by two white women in 1931....

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Apr 19 – May 12, 2024

Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece which captures the brutal, tender, and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, "For Colored Girls..." offers...

Once on this Island
Once on this Island
Aug 31 – Sep 17, 2023

A Caribbean Fairytale!As the show opens, a child is terrified by a tropical storm, and the community comes together to comfort her with a story....

RENT
RENT
Jul 30 – Aug 28, 2022

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling...

The Wiz
The Wiz
Dec 7 – Jan 12, 2020

The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is a joyous modern retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s story reflecting contemporary African-American...

Black Nativity
Black Nativity
Dec 7 – Dec 29, 2018

ArtsCentric Presents Black Nativity, a retelling of Langston Hughes' classic Nativity story in scripture, verse, song, and dance. The show features traditional Christmas songs sung...

ELTON JOHN AND TIM RICE'S AIDA
ELTON JOHN AND TIM RICE'S AIDA
Aug 3 – Aug 26, 2018

Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA is a contemporary musical take on a grand classic tale of the timeless bond between an enslaved Nubian princess...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Oct 17 – Nov 2, 2014

BALTIMORE - Maryland-based theater production company, ArtsCentric, will revive the iconic 1970s rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” this October in a newly designed theater space...

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Jul 26 – Jul 28, 2013

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a "choreopoem". "Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles African-American women face...

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