If I Hold My Tongue is a short play written by Patricia Henley, a former Perdue University professor, who now lives in Frostburg, MD. The play was selected as one of 51 by and about women…
Women Laughing Alone With Salad is a completely mesmerizing, multi-media show. Like a gourmet salad bar, this one has all the good stuff, plus a lot of dressings " and undressings. It ear…
First things first: Happy Big One Oh Oh! to The Vagabond Players. The show was not only a Five Star treat, but the opening night audience was also treated to birthday cake in honor of the…
Yes, they're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, but they're altogether ooky " and that's just the "normal" members of the dynamic cast of The Addams Family, directed by Debb…
Blue-Eyed Soul Singer Boz Scaggs Seduces a Sold out Strathmore Audience Call Boz Scagg's music blue-eyed soul, rock, blues rock, soft rock, jazz rock, whatever " he rocked the house. Despite…
Need a major pick-me-up after a week locked up with a dictatorial boss and coasting co-workers? An evening at the Bowie Community Theatre, tucked into the woodlands of White Marsh Park in Bo…
It'll be nice to look back a few years from now and say: "I told you so!" Mario Correa's Commander, which opened on The Vagabond Players' stage in Fells Point July 11th, has the vibe of a bl…
Remember that now-classic line from Jerry Maguire? "You had me from hello!" That's how the audience felt about one minute into The Second City's new production Let Them East Chaos, onstage a…
Go ahead. It's okay to scream with laughter and stomp your feet. Though short by Shakespearean standards, this play is howlingly funny as it exploits every lesbian stereotype and cliché kno…
What's not to like about Annapolis Shakespeare Company's presentation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona? The playwright has had some good reviews. So, too, has the show's director/choreograp…
Diamond-studded diva dazzles at The Strathmore The house was packed Wednesday night at Strathmore Hall in North Bethesda, MD. It was crammed with a diverse, ready to rock audience of seni…
The sharp jab at the crusty, Victorian era British upper crust in Ernest in Love, with Book and Lyrics by Anne Croswell, Music by Lee Pockriss, and directed by Rick Wade, is not …
 Come to the Cabaret " 2nd Star style! 2nd Star Productions is hosting its 4th annual cabaret. This year's theme was inspired by the Broadway shows that, since 1949 when it was firs…
Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts’ Anything Goes, currently on the boards at the Ira Aldridge Theater, is a show to which everyone should go see. It is not to …
StillPointe Theatre Initiative’s The Benefactor is a production that a million people will want to see, but there's only room for about three dozen audience members at each show. Be a …
It's one thing to hate a beloved Shakespearean work; it's a major faux pas to say so out loud. Paul Rudnick wrote the book for I Hate Hamlet while he was living in an apartment once occup…
Other Desert Cities, a two act play by Jon Robin Baitz, is a drama with a premise that sounds like a dysfunctional family sitcom.Now at Fells Point through Feb. 8th, it is a play about a fam…
Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bercusse's Jekyll & Hyde on stage at Spotlighters Theatre in Baltimore is a close-up look at one man's self-destruction. Despite a book that lacks depth and, so…
For a change, catch this show before it gets away DO run to catch Caroline, or Change at Stillpointe Theatre Initiative. It’s a must-see show, it is worth several times the ticket p…
Be prepared to be dazzled. When this reviewer spotted hundreds of young children, mostly girls 3 to 16 in pretty party dresses, swarming through the lobby of George Mason University's Center…
The plot of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Christopher Hampton,  makes those old TV soap operas, Peyton Place and Dynasty look like child's play. The main characters are corrupt…
The opera great Beverly Sills, who shared a birthday with me " and, sometimes, the same hair color, was saddened when she learned I had never attended an indoor opera. That I'd been to sever…
Verbal wordplay flies faster than bullets Jack Sharkey's The Murder Room" is a delightfully wacky, witty spoof of the dead serious British murder mysteries of the post-war era of the 1950s. …
Annapolis Shakespeare's Macbeth is a bloody good way to baptize the company's new theater space Macbeth is the inaugural production of the Annapolis Shakespeare Company in its new home…
Just too good to be true, we can't take our eyes off Frankie Vallie and his crew The Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons show at Strathmore last night was sold out and so is tonight’…