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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....

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

Heartbreak Hotel
Jan 29 – Feb 15, 2026

Heartbreak Hotel, a musical that explores the life of Elvis Presley, will open the 38th Season at the Cumberland Theatre. Written by David Abbinanti and...

Love's Labour's Lost
Aug 8 – Aug 9, 2025

Cumberland Theatre presents a reimagined production of Love's Labour's Lost, a comedic tale set in a world of pirates and romance. The story revolves around...

Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Oct 10 – Oct 27, 2024

Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, presented by the Cumberland Theatre, dives into the complex life of the iconic American...

Confessions From the Ladies Room
Sep 25

The Cumberland Theatre will host a stage reading of Confessions From the Ladies Room, a play written by Shane Riggs, on September 25th. The story...

Evil Dead the Musical
Evil Dead the Musical
Oct 12 – Oct 29, 2023

This hilarious show takes all the elements of the cult classic films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness and combines them...

Gypsy
Gypsy
May 10 – May 27, 2018

Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, GYPSY is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’...

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