Monday, October 17, 2022
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”.– Aristotle “Why you wanna fly, Blackbird? You ain’t never gonna fly”.– Nina Simone A world premiere chore…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:52PMSunday, September 11, 2022
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mold me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” – John Milton, from “Paradise Lost” There have been several stage adaptati…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:36PMSunday, August 21, 2022
Long ago, in the “before times” (pre-COVID), there was a growing trend among our more cutting-edge companies: “devised” theater. Starting without roles or even a script, performing e…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:08PMMonday, July 18, 2022
As the souls of the dead live for’er in my mindAs I live all the years that they left me behindI’ll stay on the shore but still gaze at the seaI remember the fallen and they think of meF…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:04PMWednesday, July 13, 2022
With a few notable exceptions, the 21st century has been a bit of a dry spell when it comes to new Broadway musicals. Still, the beast must be fed, and a popular method for creating new inco…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:04PMSunday, July 10, 2022
Beginning in 2018, the Baltimore group, Fools and Madmen, has created a marvelous series of hip-hop adaptations of Shakespeare’s works. Their unique distillations are designed for a travel…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:18AMSunday, May 8, 2022
For the second time in its four-year history, Baltimore’s Asian Pasifika Arts Collective has partnered with an established theater company to co-produce a new work for the stage. Their 201…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:14PMSunday, May 1, 2022
The late Tim Kelly was a prolific playwright who caught the parody bug sometime in the late 1970s. His “The Butler Did It” was a silly, formulaic melodrama, in which every detective ster…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:25PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Takoma Park–based Alex and Olmsted is a puppet theater company also specializing in film work. Two years ago they received a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation (their second) for develop…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:58AMSunday, April 10, 2022
A doorman building in one of the fashionable artsy neighborhoods of lower Manhattan finds two couples getting together for an evening of drinking and vitriol. The hostess, a white artist, is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:10PMSunday, April 3, 2022
Seven years have passed since Tamir Rice. These years are producing a creative upheaval in the theater as playwrights raise defiant voices against broken systems and tragically wasted lives.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57PMThursday, March 10, 2022
Noah Silas is a company member of Baltimore’s Rapid Lemon Productions, the resident theater company at Motor House in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District of Baltimore. For th…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:21PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Contemporary French playwright Yasmina Reza specializes in obnoxious characters who bicker over first-world problems. In both of her best-known works, “’Art’” and “God of Carnag…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:20PMSunday, February 20, 2022
In 2013, an NSA subcontractor named Edward Snowden stole classified information and leaked it to members of the press. This play isn’t about him. …complex, satisfying theatrical experien…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
Not all history lessons are simple. Not all are easy to digest. Sometimes, one is confronted by a human story in which heroes and villains aren’t so readily tagged, where the message is…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:25PMSunday, February 6, 2022
Friday morning in the cramped Southside Chicago apartment of the Younger family finds Ruth making breakfast. Walter Lee, her husband, is jockeying for time in the shared bathroom down the ha…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:22PMSaturday, January 8, 2022
It’s a morning like any other morning. The sun is bright; it’ll be hot later. A pair of shopkeepers make small talk. But something is awry. Peculiar. Gradually, the men realize that all …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:34PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Imagine a story of an 11-ish-year-old girl caught up in a catastrophic weather event. It lurches her away from familiar surroundings and forces her to embark on an epic, heroic adventure so …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:55PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
Fifteen years ago, six Black students at Louisiana’s Jena High School were arrested, accused of attacking a white student. The case of the “Jena Six” gained wide notoriety, in part, be…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:03PMSunday, October 31, 2021
At the turn of 17th century, the Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Hungary. Related to the king of Poland, the grand duke of Lithuania, and the pri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:26PMSaturday, October 23, 2021
Add another Baltimore stage to the growing list of “post-COVID” re-openings. The pandemic is not yet over, of course, but thanks to thorough precautions and a brand new HVAC system, Spot…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:07PMMonday, October 4, 2021
Shortly before eight o’clock on the last evening in September, an announcement rang out through the lobby of Fells Point Corner Theatre: “Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in 570 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:19PMFriday, July 9, 2021
In the late 1970s, Bill Cosby’s career was flat-lining. He had paid his dues in nightclubs and as Robert Culp’s television sidekick, but after the ’60s, he found acting jobs few and sm…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:12AMMonday, July 5, 2021
Fans of downtown Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company have long considered their yearly al fresco performances in Ellicott City as a favorite summertime happening. This year, CSC ren…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:49AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
Fans of gospel music will immediately recognize the title of Arena Players’ current offering, “Cleveland,” not as reference to a city, but as reference to its central character. The Re…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMSaturday, April 17, 2021
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:26PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
“Huck, who is you hollerin’ at?”“I’m hollerin’ at Tom.”“Oh, Huck, how can you act so, when you know po’ Mars Tom –“ Then he let off an awful scream… Tom Sawyer Abroad…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:14PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
A Korean Christian girls’ youth group from L.A. is in Bangkok with its pastor. The teen missionaries are excited over the prospects of saving the souls of red light district tourists — o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:18PMSaturday, March 13, 2021
On February 17th, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced updates to the City’s phase 1 COVID restrictions. These included the return of live indoor entertainment at 25% capacity, with …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:08AMSunday, January 17, 2021
In 1999, the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays was in its 24th season. Beginning to feel creative pressure from the relative upstart Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:31PMThursday, December 24, 2020
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Ba…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:15PM 
