This is sad news to report for our local theatre community. Rep Stage, the professional regional theatre at Howard Community College, will present its final season with a world premiere by l…
"People try to label you. Put you in a box. Try to make you one way, even if you're not." It began thirteen months ago, with a conversation. Multi-hyphenate artist Nate Couser called directo…
 Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball") is the Maryland Lyric Opera's second production in an all-Verdi season featuring some of the composer's best-loved works. In true Verdi …
What's a fringe festival? As a newbie, I had absolutely no idea. What I saw at the newly renovated Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum (and the oldest museum in the United States), was a tas…
"The Lifespan of a Fact," written by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell is loosely based on a book by the two male leads, John D'Agata and Jim Fingal about their relationship.…
Silver Spring Stage is currently presenting a delightful, absurdist gem, "An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf," written by Michael Hollinger and directed by Karen Fleming. Featuring a…
 One of the more adventurous theatre companies working in Maryland is Rogue Swan Theatre Company. Their latest production was the B-horror movie, musical homage, "Silver Scream," created…
"The Shakespeare Wagon" to Visit Baltimore Neighborhoods and Counties in Maryland Baltimore's CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY"one of the fastest-growing classical theater companies in the…
In the fifteen years since its founding, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society has been responsible for some incredibly ambitious productions of original material. The latest of these is "Love &a…
To me, a concert program full of the best of Broadway is like an extensive dessert menu that is ever so satisfying, but somehow never fills you up, making you want for more. If I'm being hon…
What does assimilation into U.S. culture mean for immigrants from different Latin American countries and economic classes? The points made in "Fade" by Tanya Saracho may break no new ground …
Dorrance Dance, under the artistic direction of Michelle Dorrance, began their "SOUNDspace" performance at the Strathmore by inviting the audience to quiet our mouths, bodies, minds, and hea…
Bemoaning the fact that I haven't been able to travel anywhere fun, I requested to cover the opening of a play at Baltimore's renowned professional theatre, Baltimore Center Stage. Little di…
 "It is so terrifying that my soul wants to be extinguished." So sings Klytämnestra on stage. The same might be said of Richard Strauss' ability to bring the "pity and fear" (catharsis)…
Directed by artistic director Simon Godwin, Shakespeare Theatre Company will be presenting the Bard's "Much Ado About Nothing" beginning on November 10. This play is probably one of the most…
The retelling of history has traditionally been told from the winner's perspective. Without a true winner, the narrative is for the world. In the story of Emmett Till, there will never be a …
 Some of the opera world's most glorious voices are currently filling the Kennedy Center Opera House in the Washington National Opera's dazzling production of Verdi's "Il trovatore" …
A small bundle of tremendous energy, with a strong will to right wrongs and find love, burst on the scene at the Children's Theatre of Annapolis' (CTA) current fall musical production of "Ma…
Life, loss, legacy. These are just three, short words, but they're certainly not small in concept. How, then, could composer and lyricist William Finn"best known for "Falsettos" and "The 25t…
"Legally Blonde," with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, is an energetic, feel-good story where the worst character is justly punished and all …
In mid-2000s Newark, there were few good options for the young people we today know as "DREAMers." DACA would not begin accepting applications for years, NYC was over a decade out from passi…
A PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES PROJECT Launching October 30, 2022 Beyond the bureaucracy and marble columns, there's a steady beat that drives the Nation's Capital. Dive into more than a century of DC …
 Honorary Producers Joseph and Lynne Horning An expanded three-week festival featuring local, regional, and international artists! Washington, D.C. " GALA continues a beloved staple of e…
Love or fear. Old Nicky Machiavelli said there are only two choices. In "A Bronx Tale, the Musical," presented by Dundalk Community Theatre, Calogero has to make a choice between the love an…
  Fun! Fun! Fun! (if only for a too-brief hour) best describes the opening night at the Kennedy Center where "The Look of Love," (a Kennedy Center co-commission) made its East Coast …