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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

Inside Out and Backwards
Inside Out and Backwards
Mar 2 – Mar 30, 2024

Part of Imagination Stage's Theatre for the Very Young series - Best for ages 1-5. It’s bedtime, and two children use their imaginations to turn their...

The Manhattan Project's Alice in Wonderland
The Manhattan Project's Alice in Wonderland
Mar 24 – Mar 26, 2017

Everyone knows Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, but are you ready for an altogether curiouser version? Because this time, nothing will be what it is because...

Peter Pan and Wendy
Jun 26 – Aug 11, 2013

The Lerner Family Theatre: - Alyn Cardarelli, Steve Goers; dir: Kate Bryer....

James and the Giant Peach
Apr 3 – May 26, 2013

The Lerner Family Theatre: - adapt: David Wood from Roald Dahl; dir: Janet Stanford....

The Magic Finger
Apr 12 – May 24, 2013

The Lerner Family Theatre: - adapt: David Wood from Roald Dahl; dir: Kate Bryer....

Anime Momotaro
Jan 30 – Mar 10, 2013

The Lerner Family Theatre: - Honolulu Theatre for Youth , Alvin Chan, Eric Johnson; dir: Eric Johnson....

Seussical
Nov 14 – Jan 6, 2013

The Lerner Family Theatre: - Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty; lyrics: Lynn Ahrens; music: Stephen Flaherty; dir: Janet Stanford....

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Jun 20 – Aug 12, 2012

Set in the 1940s during World War II, the show follows four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, who escape their mundane world after...

Rapunzel
Apr 4 – May 20, 2012

Feb. 10-26, 2012 • Wells Fargo Playhouse Front Orchestra $18 / General Section $14 Adapted by renowned playwright Max Bush, this production stays true to...

P. Nokio
Feb 1 – Mar 11, 2012
Dr. Dolittle
Nov 22 – Jan 8, 2012

The classic tale of kindness to animals and animal kindnesses trots, crawls and flies onto the stage in DOCTOR DOLITTLE, the big Broadway-sized family musical....

Aladdin's Luck
Sep 23 – Oct 30, 2011

Group sales now available by calling the Tibbits box office at 517.278.6029. Single tickets go on sale April 1, 2023. Single tickets for this event are...

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