223 stories by "William Powell"
'Black Violin' serves up a musical potpourri at Strathmore "This is a party!" said Wil B (Wilner Baptiste) one half of the group Black Violin, which performed a genre-mashing amalgam of hip …
The Migration Project is a live music, multi-media event directed and developed by Jane Franklin of the Jane Franklin Dance Company that raises many questions: When is it necessary to pick u…
'Dinner With Friends' serves broken relationships, dreams Why do people break up, but never make up? Is having kids a sacrifice or a blessing? Are some people not just built for marriage? Is…
Vagabond Players' Avenue Q, expertly directed by Eric C. Stein, is a "Triple Crown"-winning musical (Tony for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book) with a spectacular cast. The show is ano…
 'The Bluest Eye' is a moving tale about race, dysfunction, and poverty Director Tavia La Follette, a Towson University professor, in choosing The Bluest Eye to direct, chose to examine h…
Director Matt Bassett, a faculty member of Montgomery College, in choosing Bat Boy: The Musical to direct, chose to examine, "how someone who doesn't fit the social norm must struggle for re…
With Halloween drifting in the cool, autumn air, Zombie Prom, as directed by Unexpected Stage Company Co-Producing Director Christopher Goodrich, and with Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey, is…
DAS BARBECÃœ, as directed by Greg Bell, and with Book and Lyrics by Jim Luigs, was a rousing and at times, funny-bone-breaking re-telling of Wagner's Ring Cycle, reimagined as a Texas fabl…
'Much Ado About Nothing' brings amusement, merriment and mirth Appearances can be quite deceiving, especially in the realm of love. Deception, misunderstandings and much merriment were on di…
 Hollywood actors, singers and local talent fuel the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture One-hundred years in the making, the National Museum o…
''Night, Mother' explores depths of depression, family secrets The Highwood Theatre's Night, Mother, expertly directed by Madison Middleton and wonderfully acted by Melissa B. Robinson and J…
Culture Club channels the 80s at Strathmore The UK pop-soul music group Culture Club has been grooving for over 30 years with hits like "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time," "Karma Chamel…
 'All My Sons' highlights painful secrets from the past Vagabond Players' All My Sons, expertly directed by Michael Byrne Zemarel, is a masterful staging of a classic work by one of the g…
MetroStage's Blackberry Daze adapted by novelist Ruth P. Watson and Director/Choreographer/Lyricist Thomas W. Jones II from Watson's best-selling novel, and with a soulful, beautiful, and em…
Review: Kraftwerk brings electro-pop and 3D imagery to The Music Center at Strathmore The electro-pop group Kraftwerk has been shredding the envelope of what is possible in electronic instru…
Radio Golf, expertly directed by Terry Spann, and written by the late, esteemed playwright August Wilson, is a powerful study of Black men with two different approaches to progressing in a c…
Tick, Tick…BOOM!, as directed and choreographed by Jillian Locklear Bauersfeld, and with Book, Music and Lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, was an insightful semi-autobiographical and mus…
 'Julius Caesar' draws political and historical parallels Julius Caesar, directed by Chris Cotterman, in a production by the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, is an exploration of what motiv…
'Yes, And' explores the history of improv Yes, And… directed by Jeff Quintana and expertly written and acted by Playwright Zack Myers is a quirky bit of work that questions the nature of i…
Poe, Times Two directed by DeLisa M. White and expertly written, adapted and acted by Playwright Greg Oliver Bodine, is a haunting double-dose of one-man plays based on two classic tales of …
Cake! Directed by Corin Andrade and created by burlesque impresario Ché Monique asks a profound, yet comical question: What happens when a 300 pound woman jumps out of an eight-foot birthda…
Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville channels pre-radio\TV entertainment America's Got Talent, The X Factor, Benny Hill, The Gong Show, and The Ed Sullivan Show are nothing new. The variety s…
'Next to Normal' Confronts Depression, and Anxiety Depression hurts. It deadens and dulls the edge of life and can even kill. With a Tony Award-winning score composed by Tom Kitt with lyr…
Ten stories, ten plays, ten minutes per play. That was the set up for 10x10x10, a collection of plays by local area playwrights, which played at Fells Point Corner Theatre. The audience got …
 'Lost in Wonderland': Journeys Through an Author's Imagination Have you ever wanted to ask a famous, classic author, say a Mark Twain or an Edgar Allen Poe how and why they shaped their …
