The Phantom of the Opera is an entertainment phenomenon. Can we all just agree about that and move on? It's still going strong after 30 years in London and 27 years on Broadway. As a reminde…
The South Pacific of your dreams was just sighted at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia. Never mind the current debate over "New York values" versus "Iowa values" " here you will find R…
The world premiere of the new musical Peter Rabbit at Red Branch Theatre Company in Columbia finally puts to rest one of life’s great riddles: Why are bunny tails so short? Answer: …
The Sound of Music strikes a slightly different tone but its hills are still full of life in the new national touring show at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. Season ticket-holders should bra…
The Book of Mormon is like a short, bracing vacation from political correctness. Between now and November 15th, taking a seat in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre signals your willingness to st…
Three generations of women in one contemporary American family prove "ready for their close-up" in Technicolor Life, a world premiere at Rep Stage in Howard County. Don't make a mistake thin…
Kinky Boots is getting Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre year off on the, er, right foot. Here's a show so full of energy and charm that it doesn't care a fig whether you think of it as chic or…
Dogfight is a drama that deals almost entirely with surfaces " surface beauty, surface values, surface concerns and surface victories. Taken on that level, the fine new mounting of the music…
The emotionally stirring historical patchwork known as Ragtime: The Musical is back at Toby's Dinner Theatre in a wonderful new professional mounting. It was twelve years ago that Toby Orens…
Something is undeniably right about a play that keeps you chuckling all evening then sends you off with a lump in your throat. That, in a nutshell, is Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz, now …
Good news, theatergoers. Your favorite sassy surrogate love puppets are back at Red Branch Theatre Company performing at Columbia's Drama Learning Center. Now through August 8th the neighbor…
Are you ready to veer from the path and take another tumultuous journey Into the Woods? Go ahead, throw caution to the wind. You'll find yourself in amusing company at Toby's"The Dinner Thea…
Pippin is one glorious flashback to a time when musicals were happenings, Broadway casts called themselves "tribes," and playwrights broke through the fourth wall to make profound statements…
The wonderful young talents at the Drama Learning Center in Columbia are pushing youth theater ahead by leaps and bounds " literally. There are so many back flips required by their newest TY…
If you absolutely adored the movie Dirty Dancing and wouldn't change a thing about it, Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre has just the show for you. Dirty Dancing "Â The Classic Story on Stage…
If you've ever wanted to applaud Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers of the Land of Liberty, here's an opportunity. All of them come out for well-deserv…
Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby is social realism with snap. It knows how to "unlock all that attitude," as one of the play's three characters puts it, and audiences attending the regional…
Spring Awakening always makes a strong impression on audiences. But it is a particularly bold choice for the season-opener at Red Branch Theatre Company. The 2007 Tony-winning musical, adapt…
No matter how low your spirits these days, Angela Lansbury will raise them. That's the professional promise now drawing people into Washington, D.C. from all over the Mid-Atlantic region to …
The 2009 Obie-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation is like a five-finger exercise minus a digit or two. In its well-mounted area debut at Rep Stage in Howard County, it makes for a plea…
For a show with more moving parts than a clock museum, it's surprising how often Glenelg Country School's Hot Mikado is in the groove. Revivals of this 1986 Ford's Theatre staging are very h…
Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre is having its hottest season ever. Indeed, if you shovel out of your snow and ice fast enough, you will find its current offering of Chicago making things even…
Baltimore’s vibrant and growing Chesapeake Shakespeare Company looks comfortable indeed inside its gorgeous new digs on South Calvert Street. If only it looked as comfortable inhabitin…
If there is any theater role that Lawrence B. Munsey cannot master, he certainly keeps it hidden. The musical star drew huge laughs playing a cross-dressing ham in La Cage aux Folles then sw…
Forget about "Tomorrow." In Baltimore the sun came out the minute the latest road tour of Annie unpacked its bags. From its elaborate sets by Beowulf Boritt, Suzy Benzinger’s costumes,…