293 stories by "Jayne Blanchard"
It's not the air-conditioning causing goose bumps at the Eisenhower Theater. Instead, chills of pleasure are induced by director Eric Schaeffer's deluxe, star-packed production of Follies, S…
In the midst of a rainy spring, the real sunshine can be found indoors, courtesy of Everyman Theatre's fresh-as-a-daisy production of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, directed with wit and…
Even in this age of iPads, mobile apps and handheld computer games, show-and-tell still holds an irresistible allure for grade-schoolers. The Day John Henry Came to School, a world-premiere …
Ever had the hankering to stop being a seat warmer and jump up onstage to join the action? Careening out of your comfort zone and inadvertently breaking the fourth wall are two of the themes…
Multiply Miss Havisham by three, add Irish accents and a peculiarly compelling sense of the macabre and you have Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom, the female-driven companion piece to …
No need to finagle an invite to the LeVay family's handsomely appointed summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Just get a ticket to Everyman Theatre's deliciously enjoyable production of Lydia R.…
St. Patrick's Day madness has safely passed, but Baltimore remains the scene for green, as Shrek The Musical brings the lovable, lime-skinned ogre to the Hippodrome Theatre for a two-week st…
We go to live theater for fireworks, but in the case of Theater J's fine staging of The Chosen, transplanted to Arena Stage for a brief run, often the production's pleasures are revealed in …
Nearly 50 years old and not a speck of flab or complacency. How often can you say that about anything, much less a play? Edward Albee's 1962 majestic three-act matrimonial grudge match, Who'…
Writer Joan Didion insists on having the last word. This insistence comes back to haunt her after she has one of those years"you know, the kind where catastrophes become the warp and woof of…
Before Tom Stoppard got all metaphysical and mathematical on us, he wrote fluff. The Stoppardian word gymnastics and clever silliness are very much evident in On the Razzle, but it has ab…
Centerstage Artistic Director Irene Lewis goes out with a bang with a wickedly scabrous production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, the final show directed by Miss Lewis after a 20-year st…
Sex and theater criticism are not synonymous. Although the majority of ink-stained wretches clean up well, it is a rare occurrence for theatergoers to whistle appreciatively under their coll…
Anna Deavere Smith glides in and out of personas with the ease of just-cut hair slipping to the barber's floor. Her quicksilver qualities and keen listening skills are beautifully utilized i…
Hey Hon. Don't go downy Ocean. You'll freeze your garbanzos off and not even a couple of Natty Bohs will warm you up. Â Fortify yourself with a nice crab cake and head on over to Center St…
Seasonal schmaltz making you farklempt? Â Tarnish that tinsel with a refreshing nip of filth in The Kinsey Sick's raunchy holiday roundelay Oy Vey in a Manger. The Aaron and Cecile Goldman…
The holidays have descended upon first-grade Room One and Junie B. Jones (Casie Platt) is of two minds. On the one hand, she is giddier than Scrooge on Christmas morning with the prospect of…
Arena Stage inaugurates its Kogod Cradle theater, an incubator for new plays, with an invigorating production of Marcus Gardley's Every Tongue Confess, a sprawling tale about hate crimes and…
