281 stories by "Lynne Menefee"
It has been an exciting season this year with a few Baltimore theaters expanding their repertoire by including a musical in their traditionally non-musical lineup. Chesapeake Shakespeare …
As the story goes, BSO's SuperPops conductor Jack Everly walked into Feinstein's/54 Below supper club in New York City while this group of multi-talented Broadway actors was performing. He k…
Literally translated, “Los Otros” means "the others." With immigration a huge part of the current political maelstrom, Everyman could not be debuting a more relevant new piece of…
The comedy, “I Hate Hamlet,” written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Tom Colonna, is the current production presented by Dundalk Community Theatre and performed at the wonderf…
Earth, Wind & Fire is one of America's top-selling musical groups of all time. The band began its legendary career in 1969 but took off in 1972. With a mix of gospel, jazz, pop,…
Playwright, director, teacher and actor Gale Childs Daly has done a brilliant job of adapting one of Charles Dickens' most beloved novels, “Great Expectations,” for the stage.…
Everyman's Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi has brought (and directed) another new gem of a play from the 2015 Humana Festival of Plays. Written by actor/writer Colman Domingo (…
Still under a significant renovation, Center Stage opens its 2016/17 season with a masterful piece of theater written by Christopher Hampton, based on the 1782 novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuse…
If you are looking for a break from the typical holiday fair and shopping madness and love a comical whodunit, Spotlighters has the show for you. Directed by Artistic Director Fuzz Roark …
It is refreshing to see a new play about an oft-forgotten demographic. Whether it be in film or theater, there aren't many great roles written for women in their 50s. Playwright Jen Silverma…
Vagabond Players continues its 100th season in the company's lovely renovated theater with the Broadway award-winning musical, “Avenue Q,” under the clever direction of Eric C…
Founding Artistic Director Ian Gallanar has chosen to direct a powerful and timely tragedy to open Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s 15th anniversary season. “Othello” is al…
Any movie buff and a fan of the luminous Audrey Hepburn is undoubtedly familiar with the 1967 movie starring the actress who was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe in her r…
All for one and one for all! The classic, historical romance, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, opens CSC's summer season at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott…
The musical Kinky Boots was inspired by the 2005 indie British film that was based on the BBC documentary of a true story. It is a tale of the unlikely partnership of a young, straight-laced…
If you are looking for some rollicking good fun at the theater and about theater, look no further than Vagabond Players' Moon Over Buffalo " a perfect ending to the theater's centennial seas…
City of Angels won six Tonys including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical by M*A*S*H creator/writer Larry Gelbart and Best Original Score by the legendary Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, On The…
In a show that was part of last year’s Capital Fringe, D.C.'s brilliant Happenstance Theater, is again gracing the stage at Baltimore Theatre Project. Unlike their previous produ…
Everyman Theatre is ending their 25th anniversary season in a glorious and ambitious fashion. It honors not only Modern American Theatre but also the tradition of rotating repertory. The ide…
The juggernaut of Jersey Boys " the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical based on one of the most successful American pop groups of the last century, The Four Seasons " shows no signs of st…
The Silhouette Stages is community theater at its best, illustrated by its current production of the 1982 farce, Noises Off, written by Michael Frayn and directed by Conni Ross. This award-w…
CSC has rediscovered Wild Oats, a rarely performed play by Irish-born playwright John O'Keefe and it is quite the little gem. It has all the trademark devices of mistaken identity, romantic …
Subtitled "The Romance of Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt," this one-woman production hails from the Lilith, A Woman’s  Theater from San Francisco. The theater's founder an…
With Center Stage's temporary move to Towson University's Center for the Arts, the company can continue to bring great theater to the area while its Calvert Street home gets an exciting, …
The Fells Point Corner Theatre (FPCT) and the new collective of local theater artists, The Collaborative Theatre (TCT), have joined forces to present The 39 Steps based on Alfred Hitchcock's…