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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....
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at Vagabond Players
by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026
This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....
Review: WICKED at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025
For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...
Review: DECEIVED at Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025
Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...
Past Shows
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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