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 03:46PM“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 04:01PMAt 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 11:57AMThe 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 11:05AMThe 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 10:44AMThere’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 02:38PMFor 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 01:56PM“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 02:34PM“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 11:22AMIn 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 11:41AMJoshua 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 06:23PM“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 06:52PM“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 12:36PMLong 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 12:08PMAs 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 04:04PMWith 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 11:04PMBeginning 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 11:18AMFor 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 10:14PMThe 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 11:25PMTakoma 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 11:58AMA 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 04:10PMSeven 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 11:57PMNoah 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 10:21PMContemporary 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 05:20PMIn 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 11:08AMNot 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 12:25PMFriday 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 02:22PMIt’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 01:34PMImagine 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 02:55PMFifteen 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 03:03PMAt 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…
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