Saturday, May 27, 2023
In 1946, 13-year-old Eunice Waymon made her piano concert debut. Her parents were forced to vacate their front row seats in the segregated venue. Eight years later, she found herself gigging…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PMSunday, May 21, 2023
“Cool Hand Luke” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” are both high on any list of classic films of the modern period. They’re the same kind of hero/martyr story, centered on on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:25PMFriday, May 19, 2023
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:14PMMonday, May 8, 2023
Barbara Kahn’s screwball comedy, “The Lady Was a Gentleman,” is a hilarious mélange of six disparate women in 1858 St. Louis. Charlotte Cushman (Julia Williams), a famous actor, is on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:32PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
In October, 1972, a new play made its world premiere in Cape Town, South Africa. Published under the title “Sizwe Bansi [sic] is Dead,” the piece was devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:19PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
“Henry VIII” is one of Shakespeare’s less frequently produced plays. It actually isn’t Shakespeare’s alone, rather, it was a collaboration with John Fletcher. Here is a fun fact (t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:01PMIn the 1980s and ‘90s, Christopher Durang was at the peak of his popularity. He’d arrived at precisely the right time, when the world of American stage comedy desperately needed an heir …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:42PMSunday, April 16, 2023
It is a chaotic time for several of Baltimore’s small theater companies. Stillpointe Theatre, Rapid Lemon Productions, and Baltimore Shakespeare Factory all lost their performance spaces a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:08PMSunday, April 2, 2023
It’s late at night. There’s a thunderstorm. A man unlocks the door to a moldy motel room and steps inside. He hopes to get a little rest after a long day of travel and giving speeches. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:14PMMonday, February 20, 2023
Through partnerships with Everyman, Olney, and Center Stage, Baltimore’s ArtsCentric is presenting its mainstage works in regional theaters all across the state. In fact, it’s been a min…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Fresh on the heels of a four million dollar grant award, Baltimore’s Arena Players is in high spirits. Renovations are still two years away, though, and the company is currently focused on…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PMSunday, January 29, 2023
“We create only from familiar elements, the possibilities of which are enhanced by imagination.”– May Miller, “The Creative Urge,” Journal of National Association of College Women …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:01PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
At one point in his six-minute curtain speech, Spotlighters’ Executive Director and Managing/Artistic Director, Fuzz Roark, gives a telling description of “[title of show].” “It’s …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:57AMTuesday, January 10, 2023
The career of Neil Simon nestles neatly between two periods of daring exploration. He followed Beckett and Ionesco, toiling away writing for television while they made a revolution. When his…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:05AMSunday, December 11, 2022
The holidays are a time when many of us entertain out-of-town guests. It serves as a wonderful opportunity to show off our area to them. Family and friends whose ideas of Baltimore come from…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:44AMSunday, December 4, 2022
There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the gloriesof Christmases long, long ago– Eddie Pola & George Wyle, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” There’s a pecul…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:38PMMonday, November 21, 2022
For some of us, October is too short. Come Thanksgiving, we still crave the creepy and desire the demonic. Luckily, Stillpointe Theatre is serving up a frightening feast with all of the ghas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:56PMMonday, November 14, 2022
“Four white people can’t do a Thanksgiving play that doesn’t p*ss off the funders, or the parents, or the universe.” In a minefield, no movement is safe. When movement is the stated …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:34PMSunday, November 13, 2022
“People try to label you. Put you in a box. Try to make you one way, even if you’re not.” It began thirteen months ago, with a conversation. Multi-hyphenate artist Nate Couser called d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:22AMMonday, November 7, 2022
In the fifteen years since its founding, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society has been responsible for some incredibly ambitious productions of original material. The latest of these is “Love …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AMSaturday, October 22, 2022
Joshua Poole, Zachary Bryant, and Gabriel Hernandez. Photo by Katie Simmons-Barth. Was America’s 16th president gay? Does it matter? In the world premiere, chamber opera, “Yours Forever,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:23PMMonday, 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 04:10PM 
