Experimental theater has a reputation for being unfriendly, if not downright hostile, toward the audience, but Baltimore’s Lola Pierson has been trying to turn that characterization on its…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThings in Russia have changed so much during the five years Yury Urnov has spent in Baltimore that he jokes it feels more like 350 years. When he first arrived in 2009, he worked with the Ce…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMP.O. Box Unabomber by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova Through Aug. 4 at Single Carrot theatre Ted Kaczynski is back this week with Single Carrot’s P.O. Box Unabomber. In his 1…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMA House, a Home Adapted from Chekhov’s Three Sisters by Ben Hoover Through April 14 at the EMP Collective At Glass Mind Theatre’s A House, A Home—based on Anton Chekhov’s …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMOn Sunday afternoon, the capacity crowd at Theatre Project snakes out into the front hall and is chatting with members of the cast of Double Edge Theatre, which has just finished its final w…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMOver the summer, Annex Theater artistic director Evan Moritz was in the Fifth Dimension—known more colloquially as the fifth floor—of the H and H Building, downtown, talking with some fr…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMRichard III Written By William Shakespeare, Directed by Ian Gallanar At PFI Historic Park through Oct. 28 One thing you’ll learn from the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s version …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThere are two types of bands: those that constantly record and play gigs, and those that go into brief hibernations as they try to take themselves to a new level. Those hibernations result i…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMax Garner is a Baltimore writer whose two person play Sphere: The Thelonius Monk Story, directed by Rosalind Cauthen, will be at Woolly Mammoth Theatre this weekend as part of the DC Blac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMSingle Carrot Theater’s Foot of Water opens with this thought, spoken by the narrator (Jessica Garrett): “Love is like a balloon….When you are inside the balloon, love is c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00AMWhite Noise, performed by Wanderlust Theatre at the Fridge this weekend, is a play that’s impossible to separate from the exhibit of paintings by DC artist Tom Block. So I’ll begin by de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMI first saw Michael Stebbins, Artistic Director of Rep Stage, in 2005 juggling several phone lines and over a dozen roles in the solo show Fully Committed. Juggling seems to be what Ste…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:26PMDancer/Choreographer/Director Naoko Maeshiba, at least to me, was one of Baltimore’s hidden artistic treasures until I had the chance to see in 2009. Her journey began in Japan, where sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMThe ACME theatre, which I’ve done a brief piece on, will be going up with a new version of the Three Sisters this weekend. But don’t expect mustached colonels in late 19th century Russia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AMOn May 7th, the Baltimore theatre world received some good news: the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, currently located in Howard County, announced its purchase of the downtown Mercantile S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMIf you’ve watched professional theatre in Baltimore, you’ve probably seen Bruce R. Nelson. But it may have taken you a little while to realize it. When I walked into the Boehmian Café i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMDirector Barbara Lanciers was ready to premiere Kaddish, her version of Imre Kertesz’s novel “Kaddish for an Unborn Child” at the Baltimore Theatre Project. It’s a producti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AMHow director/professor Eve Muson took a Nottage play from a college production to the professional stage I remember, somewhere at the tail end of the Regional II version of the Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMI met Kelli Wright outside the Strand Theatre the day before the premier of Blood-bound and Tongue-tied. She had the lead role, Jocasta, a woman with a literal Oedipus Complex. But she had a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:05AMCenter Stage announced its upcoming 50th season on Friday, March 30th at Case[werks], a gallery across from Baltimore’s Penn Station. Kwame Kwei-Armah (Photo: courtesy of Center Stage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMAs Hungarian theatre artists are under siege, a leading critic speaks out A week ago, Andrea Tompa, President of the Hungarian Theatre Critics Association, came to Baltimore’s Center Stage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThe Katona Jozsef Theatre‘s production of Gypsies isn’t to be confused with Gypsy, the 70′s Broadway hit, but there may have been a few people in the audience expecting a r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMArena Players has been a Baltimore landmark for decades. Since its founding in 1952, it’s the oldest continuously running black theatre in the country. For decades, the Players served as a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13AM“There are sixty nine hundred languages in the world,” according to the linguist George, the central of Julia Cho’s The Language Archive.” Half of them are doomed to disappear in the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:56AMTwo interesting shows are coming up this weekend, that I’d just put out on alert in Baltimore. They’re both mind and genre-bending. And they’re free. First at Maryland Institute Colleg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:58AMIn Baltimore, theatre fans tend to look to Towson University’s Department of Theatre for up-and-coming actors and directors. And opera aficionados look toward Peabody Chamber Opera for tal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMThough Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara, is set in Leenane, Ireland, it’s hard not to think of a front yard in Hampden during Halloween. In Todd Rosenthal’s set for CenterStage,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMPreston Street in Baltimore was packed with cars. That was thanks to Itzhak Perlman, an out-of-town violin player who had decided to drop by the Baltimore Symphony and play Vivaldi’s ̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PMI started writing this article as a retrospective of Baltimore theatre in 2011. But I couldn’t help thinking a little bit about what Baltimore is looking at in 2012. In Baltimore, thanks t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMNathan Cooper, the artistic director and actor for Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre, recently returned from the Festival for Independent Performing Arts in Sofia, where he spent four days…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMAfter watching the Gate Theatre production of Krapp’s Last Tape, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s a play that John Hurt has been waiting for decades to act in. First …
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