293 stories by "Jayne Blanchard"
Listen up, guys and molls. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has pumped lead, film noir lead, see, into that chestnut Wait Until Dark and it's a looker. Youse need to leg it to Everyman Theatre bec…
How fitting in this season of remembrance to see a play about the nature of memory. Sharr White's The Other Place, currently receiving a haunting, heartbreaking production under the intellig…
Signature Theatre's revival of the 1992 musical Jelly's Last Jam is a rich slurry of jazz, blues and ragtime music, thunderous performances and some of the most extraordinary tap dancing you…
Self-hatred is the most lethal hatred of them all. It runs through your veins like hot lead, poisoning your thoughts and perspective, filling every cell with corrosive anger and clouding you…
Meet the Riches. But don't forget your body armor. An upper class couple living the late 1980s yuppie dream in suburban Minnesota, David (Dana Scott Galloway) and Carolyn (Adele Robey) Rich …
How do you solve a problem like Medea? Long a figure of fascination and derision in Greek mythology, the sorceress Medea got revenge on her two-timing husband Jason by killing their children…
Two years ago at CATF, playwright Chisa Hutchinson caused a stir with her rich and raucous two-character dramedy Dead and Breathing, about the right to die and the haves versus the have nots…
If Wendy Wasserstein were alive and well today, you'd imagine she would be writing such warm, witty and cannily perceptive plays as Susan Miller's 20th Century Blues, a world premiere at CAT…
A summer of fun kicks off with a musical bouncier and brighter than a beach ball"Hairspray, presented in all its teased, sprayed and teen-spirited glory at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia …
You've heard of feel-good theater. How about smell-good theater? A delectable aroma wafts through the Anacostia Playhouse during Going to a Place where you Already Are, the handiwork of Scen…
Actor Holly Twyford is a tour de force as Vivienne, a force of nature with a soft Southern accent, mad baking skills, impeccable manners and oh yes, a mother with Alzheimer's and dementia. T…
The elite and what writer H.L. Mencken called "the booboisie" clash over what is a genuine masterpiece and the higher purpose of art in Stephen Sach's uproarious and sneakily thoughtful play…
Oh, what a night in Baltimore Wednesday. One year after the Freddie Gray violence, there was a festive air downtown as people of all stripes thronged the streets, cafes and restaurants as th…
A sunny April Sunday and distractions such as spring cleaning, the Orioles or neglected reading beckon. Instead, all of those things are cast aside for sitting quietly in the dark for nearly…
Audio announcements and a note in the program request that audience members stay seated for all 90 minutes of Fur and not totter off to the restrooms since the actors need full backstage acc…
You can't trust anything these days, especially memories. Being human, we treat them like modeling clay"stretching, reshaping, pounding and molding our memories until they are the lumpen lef…
Whether ancient Greece or modern megalopolises, women get a raw deal. The classic Greek playwright Sophocles wrote about this human predicament enduringly in his Oedipus plays, which charted…
Two actors on an austere stage plus director John Vreeke equal nirvana in Woolly Mammoth's revelatory production of Rajiv Joseph's tough, funny, poetic play Guards at the Taj. This is one of…
Jack and the Beanstalk has been given a musical and psychological twist by Stephen Sondheim in Into the Woods and now the classic fairy tale becomes modernized and kid-powered in a world pre…
Organ donation may not be something you automatically associate with comedy, but playwright Michael Hollinger attempts to find the zanier side of bum kidneys and dysfunctional family …
Let Snowzilla 2016 do its worst. We've got sunshine right here in Charm City, where the pure magic of director Wendy C. Goldberg's production of As You Like It stirs the summer of love insid…
10. Macbeth Not a stage production per se but a movie adaptation of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy directed by Justin Kurzel whose extraordinary clarity of vision brings this tale of cruelty a…
Feeling droopy, as if you need to dip your candy canes in Prozac? Copious cheer (of the non-holiday variety) greets you at Everyman Theatre via the lovely, loving production of Outside Mulli…
Half a Matilda is better than none, one decides. The challenge of fitting this Broadway show into the wide and deep Opera House stage compromises the exuberance and dark energy of Matilda…
Full disclosure: Â I am a theater-loving football fan. It is in my blood. I was almost born at a Baltimore Colts game. I wasn't supposed to be born until January so my Mom toddled off to a…
