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Hold onto summer heat and humid emotions just a little while longer with Baltimore Center Stage's juicy production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The lies we tell ourselves so we can sleep and th…
What an opening for an opera! After a low tremolo on the bass and some nice string section writing as violins, viola, and cello join in, suddenly on stage appears a bearded, para-military du…
"I like to write about the things that matter, whether they matter emotionally, or whether they matter dramatically, or whether they matter politically. If you can get all those in one, that…
Toby's Dinner Theatre is THE place and its joint is jumping thanks to the infectious melodies of the late, great Mr. Thomas Waller, a.k.a Fats Waller. The show is Ain't Misbehavin', one of t…
She was on her way to an annual Christmas day party and never made it. The news of her murder shook all who knew Tricia McCauley as a beloved actress, a precious yoga instructor, a fello…
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Jude who kicked a pram (a baby carriage). An empty one, don't worry, but nonetheless Jude has to complete an anger management program to avoid charg…
Svanda Theatre has journeyed to Washington from Prague in a residency that includes 'Four Plays from Prague' in repertory " works that confront us with difficult periods of history when huma…
The devotion that Dorothea "Polly" Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense th…
Mona Golabek has adapted The Pianist of Willesden Lane from her book The Children of Willesden Lane, written with Lee Cohen and performs it alone on stage. Golabek's presence as she recal…
How do we honor our past without closing doors to the future? What do we owe our parents and grandparents, when weighed against the prospects of our children and their children? These wr…
Eye rolling and harrumphing over Broadway musical writers being out of ideas feels pretty banal at this stage in the game. It's no secret that creators of musical theater are relying more th…
We are riveted by a need to understand the perpetrator of a mass shooting, but isn’t it more pertinent to know what the survivor feels? After all, it’s much more likely that we w…
Dick Gregory was never afraid to speak truth to those who most needed to hear it. Even when it fell like acid rain. Gregory"the rebel comedian who paved the way for provocative, black funny …
The skies opened up as Route 66, going west, became Route 81, going south, frustrating my vow to drive at 80 mph for the rest of the way. We had left at ten after ten, a reasonable enough st…
Playwright and performer Lacresha Berry spent ten years working as a public school teacher in New York. A teacher inevitably wonders if some children are simply beyond her power to help,…
The lean, black box staging of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Joseph W. Ritsch packs a more muted wallop than other versions I have seen but is highlighted by a cast of…
I've seen Macbeth performed in the round, outdoors, in the nude, multiple film and TV versions, various homages and parodies across multiple media, I saw a spirited production last month by …
Walking into Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) I knew, as you may, that there was a best-selling Spanish language movie of its time, and an equally popular novel/cookboo…
Dancing at Lughnasa casts a spell before the actors utter a word. Irish music peppily plays as you enter the theater and drink in Yu-Hsuan Chen’s painterly set–with sinuously twi…
Giuseppe Verdi revered Shakespeare and wrote a Macbeth, an Otello, and a Falstaff. He longed to write a King Lear as well and even worked with two librettists toward that goal. But although …
A war hero returns to his hometown after 17 years with a new wife with hopes for a new life. Yet the scandalous circumstances of his departure and long-standing regrets challenge his pla…
While a very popular musical currently running at the Kennedy Center is asking audiences, "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" across town at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Brandon …
Was ever a message musical wrapped in such a luxurious bounty of romance? Those love songs! Seventy years later, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific still floors us with its lyricism.Â�…
Engaging Shaw is a fun-loving romp of a parlor comedy that hits its mark at Best Medicine. The script by John Morogiello imagines one of the truly most gifted social writers in history c…