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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Review: ‘Yellowman’ at Arena Players (closing tomorrow!) by Patricia Mitchell

This is what my mother/her mother before her believed / they believed had they been born “rich and high yella,” they wouldn’t have suffered. Clear your calendar, call the sitter and po…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56AM
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Interview: Jade Wheeler and Bueka Uwemedimo from Everyman Theatre’s production of ‘Intimate Apparel’ by Patricia Mitchell

Intimate Apparel is the story of a woman named Esther. In 1905, Esther is a 35-year-old woman who lives in a rooming house with other single ladies. She is a skilled seamstress who makes her…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AM
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Review: Margaret Cho: ‘Fresh Off the Bloat’ at Warner Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

Aptly named this year as one of the “50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time” by Rolling Stone magazine, five-time Grammy and Emmy nominated comedian, actress, and activist Margaret Cho retu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43PM
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Review: ‘Lear’ at Single Carrot Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

 Go call your dad. I’m not even kidding. By the time Young Jean Lee published Lear, in 2010, she was already le dernier cri in New York theater. The New York Times called her “A rising …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Review: ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ at Iron Crow Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

It takes a lot of Joes to make a sound you can hear. Iron Crow Theatre is on fire right out of the gate with its fantastic season opener, The Cradle Will Rock. Under the expert direction of …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:09PM

Review: ‘Julius Caesar’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by Patricia Mitchell

“Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried ‘Alas, good soul!’ and forgave him with all their hearts: but there’s no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed thei…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46AM
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Review: ‘Sally McCoy’ at Cohesion Theatre Company by Patricia Mitchell

“Every man on earth would kill for somethin’. Any says different – jus’ ain’t found out wha’s worth killin’ for yet.” – Devil Anse Hatfield, in Sally McCoy In the middle o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41AM
Friday, September 8, 2017

Interview: Everyman Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi on Serendipity and ‘M. Butterfly’ by Patricia Mitchell

There’s a story circulating about Everyman Theatre’s Artistic Director, Vincent Lancisi, and it’s one of the best What I Did on My Summer Vacation yarns around. It involves two con…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM
Friday, August 18, 2017

Everyman Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival join forces for stage-inspired screening series at the Parkway by Patricia Mitchell

Six-part guest-hosted series merges audiences and art forms Baltimore, MD – Everyman Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) are pleased to announce “Everyman at the Parkway,” a …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46AM
Monday, June 12, 2017

Review: ‘BootyCandy’ at Iron Crow Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

You need to take up some sports. This weekend, Iron Crow Theatre (“Iron Crow”) opened the final show of its 2016-17 Season of Dark Play – the Baltimore premiere of Robert O’Hara&…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56PM
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Interviews with Cohesion Playwrights Fellows, Part 2 of 2: Utkarsh Rajawat, Playwright of ‘Here Be Dragons’ by Patricia Mitchell

After its award-winning Trans* Voices Workshop Series in Season 2, Cohesion Theatre Company (Cohesion) introduced a Playwrights Fellowship for Season 3. Cohesion’s Playwrights Fellowship a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PM

Review: ‘Promenade: Baltimore’ at Single Carrot Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

“We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one.” – The Eleventh Doctor Have you ever been driving in a car or riding on the subway and seen a tussle on the street? A group o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PM
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Review: ‘Men on Boats’ at Cohesion Theatre Company by Patricia Mitchell

MANifest Destiny, or Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls Cohesion Theater Company (Cohesion) is closing its third season with playwright Jaclyn Backhaus’s historical adventure-with-a-twist, Men …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Interviews with Cohesion Playwrights Fellows, Part 1 of 2: Jen Diamond, author of ‘Porn: A Love Story’ by Patricia Mitchell

After its award-winning Trans* Voices Workshop Series in Season 2, Cohesion Theatre Company (Cohesion) introduced a Playwrights Fellowship for Season 3. Cohesion’s Playwrights Fellowship a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21AM
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Review: ‘She Kills Monsters’ at Spotlighters by Patricia Mitchell

“My party is a leather-clad dominatrix and an Elvin supermodel?” Shimmy into your chainmail and grab a broadsword, there’s an awesome campaign starting at Audrey Herman Spotlighters Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46AM
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Review: ‘The King of Howard Street’ at Annex Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

“We are human beings, right? We were at one point in our lives.” There was an excited energy in the air on opening night of The King of Howard Street. Not only was it the World Premiere …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AM
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Review: ‘Voices in the Rubble’ and ‘Endgame’ at Rapid Lemon Productions by Patricia Mitchell

Max Garner’s Rapid Lemon Productions (“Rapid Lemon”) is pairing two short Absurdist Theater gems to create an evening of darkly-humorous nihilism at the Motor House performance space. …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PM
Thursday, May 11, 2017

‘The Show Must Go On!’ Preview, Part 2: Interview with Jessica Myles Henkin by Patricia Mitchell

Stoop Storytelling, the Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features regular people telling “the extraordinary, true tales of their lives” is partnering with Everyman Theatre to p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

‘The Show Must Go On!’ Preview, Part 1: Interview with Everyman Founding Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi by Patricia Mitchell

In conjunction with their last show of the 2016/17 season – the classic farce, Noises Off – Everyman Theatre is partnering with Stoop Storytelling to present a night of side-splitting st…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Saturday, May 6, 2017

ENDS TONIGHT: Knee Plays – ‘The Cobweb’ by Lucia Treasure and ‘They Were the Ocean’ by Evan Moritz by Patricia Mitchell

The Cobweb “I’m really scared of forgetting things” When I was four or five years old, my brother climbed me up to a high branch in the apple tree in our back yard. Then he left me the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PM
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Remembering Anthony Lane Hinkle by Patricia Mitchell

Last week, the theater community suffered a great loss with the death of Anthony Lane Hinkle. Below is a lovely tribute, penned by our fellow Baltimore theater reviewer, The Bad Oracle. Plea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AM
Saturday, April 22, 2017

‘Sally McCoy’ Fully-Staged Workshop Performance at The Strand Theater by Patricia Mitchell

I’ve got to make this quick because there are only two more chances to see the fully staged, workshop performance of Sally McCoy at The Strand Theater Company (“Strand”), and one of th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:29PM
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Review: ‘Fun Home’ at The National Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

I never made it up to New York to see Fun Home. I did the same thing with The Ramones; it just always seemed like there’d be time to do it later. Fortunately for me – and unlike my gaffe…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AM
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Review: ‘That Face’ at Baltimore Center Stage by Patricia Mitchell

On Saturday, I attended the inaugural production in the newest post-renovation Baltimore Center Stage (“BCS”) performance space – the descriptively-named Third Space. BCS chose a play …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11PM
Friday, April 7, 2017

Review: H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum Presents: ‘The Treasures of New Galapagos, Astonishing Acquisitions From the Perisphere’ by Patricia Mitchell

In the less than two years since it was founded, Submersive Productions (“Submersive”) has established so positive a reputation that tickets to many performances of its new immersive the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:42PM
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Review: ‘Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them’ at Iron Crow Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

The Kids Are Alright Mom’s dead. Dad is never there. What happens when kids are left – virtually abandoned by the adults in their lives – to fend for themselves? In Edith Can Shoot Thi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PM
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Review: ‘The Shattering Frame: A Bridgette Miakowski Mystery’ at Annex Theater by Patricia Mitchell

It was night like any other night in Charm City; me and my fella were sitting home, gabbin’ about what to do. We remembered hearing some buzz about a brand new play that ain’t never been…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22AM
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Review: ‘Dad Jokes: A Stand Up Tragedy by Emily Hall’ at Annex Theater by Patricia Mitchell

Dad jokes are an odd construct. As likely to make you cringe as to laugh, they are both funny and not funny at the same time. You may laugh at a dad joke, but you almost feel bad that you di…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PM
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Review: ‘Henry V’ at Cohesion Theatre Company by Patricia Mitchell

I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about Cohesion Theatre Company (“Cohesion”) setting its production of Shakespeare’s Henry V in Appalachia, smack dab in the middle of the feud …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18PM
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Review: ‘Colorblind: The Katrina Monogolgues’ at Arena Players-ONE MORE PERFORMANCE TODAY AT 4 PM by Patricia Mitchell

One More Performance – See Colorblind: The Katrina Monologues at Arena Players TODAY at 4:00 PM This Friday, it was my good fortune – courtesy of Artistic Director Donald Owens – to ex…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Review: ‘Great Expectations’ at Everyman Theatre by Patricia Mitchell

Everyman Theatre (“Everyman”) continues its 2016/2017 season with an ambitious production: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. A work of literature epic in scope and scale, the most n…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards