110 stories by "Max Garner"
 Erik Satie's "La 1ère Gnossienne" " usually considered a quietly contemplative, slightly melancholy piece of music " is rendered positively spooky in the skillful hands of Sound Design…
The upcoming tenth season of Baltimore's Rapid Lemon Productions features a trio of world premiere presentations, with performance schedules expanded to three weeks. In keeping with the comp…
Conceived, produced, and directed by Troy Burton, "A Real "N***a" Show" is a "choreopoem" performed by an all-male cast which tells stories about the experiences of Black men in Baltimore an…
Actors of every stripe " professional, volunteer, and in-between " have made the Variations Project a highlight of Baltimore's theatrical landscape each year since 2005. Rapid Lemon Producti…
From established stage authors to wannabe first-timers, playwrights from all over the region are drawn each year to create a unique ten-minute play festival called The Variations Project. Fo…
"This is not a Zoom play." From the ides of March to late July, the theater world has endured enough and evolved enough to have both developed and then tired of a whole new format: the Zoom …
Maryland's annual ten-minute play festival The Variations Project returns for its 16th straight year with two collections of world premiere short plays by the region's playwrights. Rapid Lem…
Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra released plans for an upcoming season, set to begin in January 2021. Four mainstage productions are planned: "The Swindlers: A True-…
"Pandemics are Foul, Theater is Fair" Wyrd Sisters Shakespeare Society is an online performance group formed by several Shakespeare-loving friends in April of 2020 as an artistic response to…
Ed Herendeen, Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, announced via email yesterday that this year's event has been canceled: On behalf of our staff: Peggy, Trent, …
In a press conference March 23rd, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced the availability of State funding to 501(c)3 designated non- profits. Organizations may apply for up to $50,000 to r…
These are the End Times. Everywhere, everything is closed, canceled, and abandoned. Our lives are inconvenienced at best, mortally disrupted at worst. Small businesses are hard hit. Arts-mak…
Audiences in Baltimore are extremely fortunate to have not one but two of the most accomplished HBCU theater programs within their City's limits. On the east side is Morgan State University …
One of a pair of older contemporary plays by female authors to open in Baltimore recently (see our review of Fabulation at Strand Theater), Paula Vogel's "The Mineola Twins" is a pre-#metoo …
We're all thoroughly familiar with the rags-to-riches story. It's as essential to the vocabulary of plot dynamic as boy-meets-girl. And, just like the latter, it has given birth to corollary…
Maryland's original ten-minute play festival held its annual kick-off party February 8th at Motor House in Baltimore. At the event, artists of every stripe got together to explore this year'…
The Variations Project is Baltimore's original ten-minute play festival. Each year since 2005, the event has created a diverse collection of world premiere plays through an inclusive and col…
During the run of the company's 2020 season-opening show "Give Me Moonlight", Baltimore's Rapid Lemon Productions invites audiences to a staged reading of Sarah Cosgrove's new play "North Wi…
There's a new America on the way. Maybe. First, though, there's a slew of problems: a tainted inheritance, bones in the walls, and the locksmiths are coming to take away our guns. In the wor…
...presented with kind care and virtuosity.
Ariel Mitchell is a young playwright from Maryland whose star is on the rise. Her play Give Me Moonlight receives its world premiere in Baltimore by Rapid Lemon Productions. We caught up wit…
...a gifted, energetic ensemble and a crack production team
Any time a new performing arts venue is introduced into the landscape, independent theatre companies eagerly take notice. One such spot opened early last year in the Hamilton-Lauraville neig…
Autumn Koehnlein can't find her car keys. Michael Makar may or may not know something about that. In pig Latin. Alliterative dreams of blackberries, butterflies, and ballet combine with a to…
Rapid Lemon Productions opens its 2020 season with "Give Me Moonlight" by Maryland playwright Ariel Mitchell, appearing at Motor House February 7 " 16, 2020. It's is the fictionalized true s…
