Dramatic Promises
Center Stage features workshop readings of three of Thomas Bradshaw’s controversial and thrilling plays, Southern Promises, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist, and Mary, on consecutive nights as part of...
View ArticleDancing About Poetry
The Full Circle Dance Company’s Moving Passages: Dances Inspired by Writing relies on speech almost as much as it does on music. The challenge for the program’s 13 dancers is to find a rhythm in...
View ArticleDr. King’s Last Dream
The Mountaintop Written by Katori Hall; directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah Through Feb. 24 at Center Stage
View ArticleAugust and Everything After
August: Osage County Directed by Vincent Lancisi Written by Tracy Letts Through Feb. 17 There are several reasons why Vince Lancisi, artistic director of the Everyman Theatre, might have chosen August:...
View ArticleBrave New World
The Tropic of X Directed By Nathan A. Cooper Written By Caridad Svich At Single Carrot Theatre Through March 3
View ArticleThe Means of Reproduction
+1, or, The Bearable Delightedness of Being Controlled By Scott Burke At the Yellow Sign Theatre through Feb. 23 The misanthropic French novelist Michel Houellebecq makes the case that the sexual...
View ArticleHigh and Low
Marisa Wegrzyn, a Chicago native, is an author of numerous plays who recently moved to L.A. to pursue screenwriting. City Paper sat down with her at Center Stage the day before Mud Blue Sky’s...
View ArticleThe Unfriendly Skies
Mud Blue Sky Written by Marisa Wegrzyn Directed by Susanna Gellert Through April 14 at Center Stage Mud Blue Sky is a play that examines the kinds of connections we make when we are at work, out of...
View ArticleFail Better
Play Written by Samuel Beckett Directed by Stephen F. Nunns and Lola B. Pierson Friday, Noon: I enter St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Station North as three actors, Nathan Cooper, Naomi Kline, and Sophie...
View ArticleMight Makes Right
God of Carnage Written by Yasmina Reza Directed by Eleanor Holdridge Through April 7 at Everyman Theatre The backdrop to the stage for Everyman Theatre’s new production, God of Carnage, says it all:...
View ArticleMy Own Private Iowa
Slipping Written By Daniel Talbott, directed by Steven J. Satta Through April 13 at Baltimore Theatre Project
View ArticleChekhov, a Little Bit Crazy
A House, a Home Adapted from Chekhov’s Three Sisters by Ben Hoover Through April 14 at the EMP Collective At Glass Mind Theatre’s A House, A Home—based on Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters—audience members...
View ArticleEnter, Stage Right
Last week, Center Stage began its public previews of Clybourne Park (pictured), Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun. Norris’ portrayal of race, class,...
View ArticlePlaying Fast
10x10 Through May 5 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre It turns out that it’s easier to make people laugh in 10 minutes than it is to sober them up.
View ArticleSay you want a revolution
The VIP Written and directed by Aldo Pantoja Through May 12 at Single Carrot Theatre Bow down on one knee or two—those are the options the Spanish offered Atahualpa
View ArticleBrother Against Brother
Topdog/underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson through May 19 at Everyman Theatre Coming into a play like Topdog/Underdog, you expect a certain degree of symbolism.
View ArticleTwo Scoops
Clybourne Park By Bruce Norris Beneatha’s Place By Kwame Kwei-Armah Through June 16 at Center Stage Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a great play for many reasons, but one of those reasons...
View ArticleCommunity Metal Killing Machine
Barbara Geary is teaching Derek Brown how to slice a throat. About two weeks before the May 10 opening of the new Baltimore Rock Opera Society production, Murdercastle, the cast and crew occupy the...
View ArticleWhat a Tangled Web
If You Can Get to Buffalo: An Exploration of A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell Written by Trish Harnetiaux Directed by Eric Nightengale Through May 25 at Acme Corporation Imagine that I am...
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