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reviewed by Sherrita Wilkins If you're on the lookout for an engaging, kid-friendly activity this holiday season, look no further than the classic tale of Charlotte's Web at Imagination Stag…
Make no mistake, St Nicholas at Quotidian Theatre Company is not a Christmas play. Conor McPherson's one-man-show starring Steve Beall and directed by Jack Sbarbori is a Gothic meditation on…
Office politics, gender-based inequality in the workplace, and self-damning outbursts of flagrant misogyny fuel the flames of Theresa Rebeck's razor-sharp feminist comedy What We're Up Again…
Review by Jason Williams Playfully tagged as a less expensive alternative to The Book of Mormon, which it satirizes, The Book of Merman quickly moves beyond just being a parody of the aforem…
The Lion King is epic. It is so full of throat-tightening spectacle and aural splendor that Baltimore's grand Hippodrome Theatre can appear at times like a modest host. With Julie Taymor's m…
The New York premiere of William Bolcom's composition, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, could not be more timely. With so much news focused on racial tensions, as well as the recent uproar o…
The gutsy woman-centric theater company Nu Sass is notable for producing works that feature women in major roles, onstage and off, typically in a tiny second-floor space on F Street that sea…
The musical Annie is 40 years old this year, and thanks to the Olney Theatre Center's cheerful new production, a whole new generation of theater goers will get the chance to travel back in t…
After the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963, Nina Simone turned her singing career toward the Civil Rights’ struggle. After a decade of singing mostly popular…
A play from the 1980s about revenge for a rape, based on an ancient story from Greek mythology, comes alive in a student production as though it was about now. As though everything in it abo…
Last night, the Mason Players opened another excellent student-directed play at George Mason University. Following strong performances of Deadman's Cell Phone and 1984 earlier this semester,…
The list began after her first attempt. A list of everything brilliant about the world. Everything worth fighting for. If I were to make a list of every brilliant thing about the world, audi…
What a giddy, joyful afterimage of mouthwatering kinetic alchemy. Under the confident direction and chemistry-setter Mathew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has produced an irresistible The Gersh…
For anyone who is more than a little unnerved that President Trump might go off half-cocked and trigger a war"which he could do with as little thought as he puts into a tweet"this civic-mind…
In April of this year, I wrote: Submersive Productions has outdone itself with its new production, H.T. Darling's Incredible Musaeum presents: The Treasures of New Galapagos, Astonishing Acq…
Reviewed by Steve Weinstein Stephen Sondheim had it nearly right in his lyrics to "I'm Still Here." First, you're a legend, then you're camp, then you become an icon. As the Founding Mothers…
The sun'll come out tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar that Tomorrow there'll be sun…. Those familiar lyrics seem fresher than ever in Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Annie. With it…
When the Born Again have the opportunity to witness, they do it before their congregation, and everyone shouts “Hallelujah!” When the Stand Up Comics have that same opportunit…
A few weeks ago I found myself hankering to have a look at the London theater season, so I spent a day in the friendly skies of United Airlines to spend a week in which our own NY scene was …
Guilty or not guilty? And of what crime? An intriguing real-life episode from 20th-century Art History provides the basis for The Craftsman, Bruce Graham's latest world-premiere play commiss…
A junk bond is a high-yield, high-risk maturity in the financial markets, and a greedy group of investors bought them and enjoyed the 10-12 percent interest that was sent out semi-annually, …
Registration is now open for the 13th Annual Capital Fringe Festival. Those wishing to participate in the festival can apply from now through January 16th, 2018. The 2018 Capital Fringe Fest…
We learned, shortly after 8 p.m., that half the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was stuck on 495. Traffic unites people with weak social bonds; it gives us something communal to commiserate abo…
MAP Underground, the 14 Karat Cabaret performance space in the basement of the Bromo Arts District's Maryland Art Place, was the perfect venue to meet "philosopher clown," Jack Golden. Befor…
I have a perpetual soft spot for Crazy for You, which was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. What with George and Ira Gershwin songs, Tony-winning choreography by Susan Stroman, and the …
