78 stories by "Steve Charing"
As we get immersed in the political season in the U.S., one should recognize that what we have here"divisive and often angry politics"is quite tame compared to other periods in our wo…
How do you spell "Quirky"? Q-U-I-R-K-Y. Quirky. It would be one of the easier words to spell in the awesome production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Howard Community Colle…
No matter our age, we can all enjoy a good fairy tale with a happy ending to brighten our lives. Pleasantly, the touring production of Beauty and the Beast produced by NETworks Presen…
Like many successful musicals, Cabaret, which is now playing on the Hippodrome stage, entertains with excellent songs and staging, but navigates through a layer of darkness as part of…
A perfect murder is hard to achieve. Lord knows I've thought about it. In Frederick Knott's gripping play, Dial 'M' for Murder, which in 1954 was adapted to the screen with Alfred Hitchc…
The saga of four choir members growing up in the "Buckle of the Bible Belt" and dealing with their sexuality forms the basis for Southern Baptist Sissies that is currently playing at …
Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore's only queer theater company, unveiled its 2016-17 season that is being billed as its biggest ever. The new season was announced at a Champagne reception on Feb.…
On the heels of the largest snowstorm in Baltimore history, the most financially successful musical in history (approaching gross income of $1 billion on Broadway alone) has come to Charm Ci…
For decades The Sound of Music has enthralled audiences worldwide with its superb score and its uplifting message that the power of love can prevail against all odds during a dangerou…
In Guys and Dolls there are a number of quaint references to slices of New York life from yesteryear: Klein's, Saks, Wanamaker's, the Roxy, the A&P, floating craps games, a casual…
Footloose, the four-time Tony Award-nominated 1996 musical that was adapted by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie from the mega-popular 1984 movie of the same name is on display at the Rockvil…
You know that once the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, Adolf Hitler, Lucifer, Johnnie Cochran, and Genghis Kahn make their way into a musical, you better be ready for non-stop laughter. The Book of…
Any pair of boots would have been welcome to deal with the copious rainfall that landed outside the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center on opening night. But the …
I must admit that when I first saw the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can starring Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, the last thing I suspected was that this crime drama would eve…
It might be seen as a miracle, but the cozy Spotlighters Theatre has been transformed into a spacious Baltimore concert hall where screaming fans of the 5-member Christian boy band Altar Boy…
In a turnabout from its previous musical that offered the relatively sober Carousel, Olney Theatre Center, in the midst of its 77th season, is currently mounting the gregarious, laugh-a-minu…
If there is anything wrong with Burt V. Royal's play, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead currently playing at Spotlighters Theatre, it is that not enough people will catch t…
Center Stage's 2014/2015 season comes to a close with the world premier production of the new musical Marley, which weaves together the life and songs of reggae music legend Bob Marley. The …
Similar to other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classics, Carousel, now playing at the Olney Theatre Center's Main Stage, offers memorable music combined with a serious theme that hovers ov…
Four thousand miles may seem like nothing in our connected world. It's huge, however, when you're on a bicycle trip for that distance, and it could be a chasm that wide when peopl…
Imagine having a voice in selecting the cast of a play. As an audience member of Eat the Runt, which will run for three consecutive weekends at the Arts Collective (AC) at Howard Communi…
The tragedy of gay 21 year-old college student Matthew Shepard's brutal murder at the hands of two young men in Laramie, Wyoming in October 1998 still pains most decent people. Â Hatred by…
In its recent works, Iron Crow Theatre, Baltimore's queer theatre company, has delved into the subject of death from different angles. From the Jeffrey Dahmer murders in Joseph W. Ritsch…
Even if one entered Olney Theatre Center's Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab without knowing anything about George Brant's taut play Grounded, the visuals already established will tip you off that…
Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky"that surely defines that ooky Addams family. You can add hilarious and goofy to the mix and you have the recipe for a delicious, zany production of T…
