78 stories by "Wendi Winters"
Fangs for the Memories The Women by Clare Booth Luce, which opened on Broadway Christmas week in 1936 after its premiere in Philadelphia three weeks earlier, and included an actress named Do…
2nd Star Productions' over-the-top presentation of Peter and The Starcatcher is a recent addition to the cannon of lore surrounding the first appearance of that ever-young, pre-tween char…
Charles Dickens career as a writer, journalist, and editor was well-established when he wrote Great Expectations. He did not disappoint. Originally published in All Year Round, a weekly maga…
An updated classic that rocks! Shakespeare's comedy, As You Like It, is the icing on the Folger Theatre's 25th season and its observance of the 400th anniversary of The Bard's passing.…
Five BRASS Stars! Doc Severinsen may have not appeared on your screen since Johnny Carson turned the keys to The Tonight Show over to Jay Leno in 1992, but he hasn't slowed down. Hired as a …
Some critics go to music performances as a modern day Shakespearean Brutus: They come to bury the performance, not praise it. And, bury it they do with raised pinky, off-putting, arcane phra…
The Music Center at Strathmore was filled with nary an empty seat. The crowd was there to see " and listen to " their favorite National Public Radio star, 73 year-old 6 foot 3 inch Garrison …
Chris Botti and his Band know how to rock a house. Â "There are a few things that make us different from other bands," announced popular trumpeter Chris Botti from the stage in the concert…
Silhouette Stages has a remarkable production of Young Frankenstein that is so dynamic, audience members kept checking the program to make sure they weren't teleported back to 2008 when the …
Get Thee to This Beer Fest " er " Show! Love's LaBEERS Lost is a production in danger of becoming a hot, must-see show that will bring the fire department roaring down on DC Reynolds to clea…
Macbeth: A Bloody Good Show In his time, Macbeth was a successful, lauded warrior. He owned a castle and had an attractive wife whose ravenous ambitions, drive and ego matched his own. Neith…
Mervin Primeaux-O'Bryant, who conceived Look Through My Eyes, is the Assistant Director for Quest Visual Theatre, a group of deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing performers/teaching artistsÂ�…
Fells Point Corner Theatre’s Venus in Fur will knock you over. Whew! It is amazing! The dynamic talents of actors Andrew Porter and Anne Shoemaker fill the Fells Point Corner The…
The sign in the Strathmore ticket booth said a lot about Alan Cumming's appeal. "SHOW SOLD OUT!" it blared. An hour before the show, the place was filling up with people eager for the…
Laughs and tears, cheers and sizzlers or Learning to love the "C" word Vagina. Vagina. Vagina. Cunt. Pussy. Twat. Snatch. There. I said it. The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play about va…
Fifty years later, audiences can still get anything they want " but Alice is still not part of the package. Alice's Restaurant 50th Anniversary Concert with Arlo Guthrie played to a pa…
A Thriller! Grab your hoverboard and blast over to Greenbelt Arts Center to see its latest show, Zombie Prom. It's totally nuclear, a tongue in chic fusion of Happy Days, Grease, and T…
A sure sign the holiday season is in full swing is the annual return of classic ballet, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. It is almost as iconic as Santa Claus, a Christmas tree and catching …
Michael Feinstein is as warm, relaxed, and personable a musician as you'll ever find. Last night, he worked every seat in the big house, making sure the folks in the nosebleed balconies in b…
Have yourselves a very merry Christmas " go see this timeless classic with a Charm City twist. Bring the family to this show! Kids of all ages will love it. Instead of watching the Mister…
How do you spell T-E-R-R-I-F-I-CÂ S-H-O-W? Those of us with Millennial-generation children are used to the intensity of youth sports, like football, lacrosse or soccer, being played outdo…
Presenting Bertolt Brecht's play, Galileo, is a terrific feat for Director Christy Stanlake of The Masqueraders. It is a production, a spectacle, filled with color, light, and delight " and …
A Wonderful "Mom-ologue" Many Baby Boomers' earliest memories were of their stay-at-home mothers laughing at a risque line in an Erma Bombeck column, carefully cutting the column out " then …
This musical comedy goes nuclear! Zombie Prom, with Music by Dana P.Rowe, and Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey, currently stalking the underground stage of Spotlighters in Baltimore, is…
The version of Carousel, with Music by Richard Rodgers and Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, presented in the recently renovated theater of Maryland Hall for the Creative Art…
