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Review: 10X10X10 PLAY FESTIVAL at Fells Point Corner Theatre Scores Tens Across the Board!
Tucked between row homes on a quiet, one-way street in Upper Fells Point lives an 18th century firehouse with a community whose heart could carry the entire city of Baltimore. No single event showcases this better than Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10 Play Festival. This festival is not to b…
Review: MY FAVORITE SOCIOPATH at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Thanks to a serious discussion wrought by the end, the play avoids being a mere entertainment. The characters are not merely competing, ruthlessly but wittily too, for whatever prizes journalism may have to offer, but are visibly debasing their souls to win those prizes, and with their souls, part o…
Review: REFUGEE RHAPSODY at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Refugee Rhapsody, by Yussef El Guindi, is kind of funny. You may consider that an odd trait for a play about violence, racism, immigration and the dangerous effects of celebrity culture, but it happens to be true. In our media environment we are frequently confronted by enormities that leave us very…
Review: BEST LINE WINS at Contemporary American Theater Festival
There are a lot of good laughs there.…
Review: THE SMOKER at Contemporary American Theater Festival
In the end, this is not so much of a takedown of one specific person as of a way of being a person. To shrink down to that person’s size is to lose out on life. In this good and carefully-written play, D’Amour makes that clear.…
Review: ¡VOS! at Contemporary American Theater Festival
This play had been a powerful emotional experience, one I would have delightedly seen again, even before I’d mastered the fact pattern.…
Review: VARIATIONS ON SILENCE at Rapid Lemon Productions
Variations on silence is a collection of twelve short plays, each with it's own powerful interpretation of the chosen theme: silence.…
Review: Viciously Funny MEAN GIRLS AT Rules Toby's In Columbia
MEAN GIRLS at Toby’s in Columbia is a popcorny treat with juicy musical numbers. Enjoy climate-controlled family-friendly live entertainment and a great meal with wonderful service, provided primarily by the show's actors. Through August 23, 2026.…
Review: THE DIVINE SISTER at Vagabond Players
THE DIVINE SISTER is a devilishly funny. It is a fun, comedic, irreverent, and enthralling. It's unlike any of the works that inspired it. The play will seem vaguely familiar at times, but it stands on its own as uniquely creative!…
Review: BOUNCE at Strand Theater Company
What did our critic think of BOUNCE at Strand Theater Company?…
Past Shows
August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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 band as they navigate the racial tensions and power struggles of the music industry. Through Wilson’s powerful dialogue and the characters’...
The Scottsboro Boys
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. The Scottsboro nine were hauled to jail without a shred of actual evidence against them, and were rushed through trial procedures, found guilty and sentenced...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
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 a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry and is performed by a cast of...
Once on this Island
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. On an island where people are separated by color and class, the four Gods (Earth, Water, Love, and Death) place a bet. A young girl...
RENT
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 to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. ArtsCentrics Rent will be highly...
The Wiz
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 culture. After Dorothy gets swept up in a tornado, she finds herself in the fantastical world of Oz. There...
Black Nativity
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 in gospel style with a few songs arranged specifically for this production by Cedric D. Lyles...
ELTON JOHN AND TIM RICE'S AIDA
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 and an Egyptian soldier. As forbidden love blossoms between them, the young lovers are forced to face death or part forever. Together...
Jesus Christ Superstar
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 located in The Best Western Plus Hotel & Conference Center (location of the former Toby’s Dinner...
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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 throughout their lives. It is performed by a cast of seven women characters each of whom is only...
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Bocking Baltimore Center Stage (8/14-9/06) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (10/25-11/01) |
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Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 Little Pigs The Puppet Co. (8/22-9/20) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Classic Theatre of Maryland (12/03-1/03) |
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Kim's Convenience Everyman Theatre (8/31-9/27) |
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The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
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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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Bacon to School! "The Comedy Pigs" at MET Comedy Night Maryland Ensemble Theatre (9/11-9/11) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "HOLIDAY INN" Classic Theatre of Maryland (11/27-1/03) |
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MET's Comedy Extravaganza Maryland Ensemble Theatre (8/28-8/29) |