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A Dispatch from the Charm City Fringe Festival

The Charm City Fringe is on! Here’s what I got up to last night. Reviews Poly-Theist “Brett was a married, 21-year-old monogamous Evangelical. Then he became the opposite.” When real people talk about...

The Eighth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival Launches This Week: How to Get Your Fringe On!

October 10 marks the Launch Party for the Eighth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival, a celebration of new and emerging independent theatre that will continue through October 20th. The kickoff party,...

Eighth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival: What to See and Where to See It

The Eighth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival is taking place in the Bromo Arts District from October 10 through 20, 2019. Here’s a listing of all the shows. Ready, Set, Fringe! Fringe Shows with...

Review: ‘The Bodyguard’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre

Suspense-thrillers used to make up a sizable portion of every dinner theater menu, but the days of Death Trap and Agatha Christie yarns have given way to a nearly non-stop diet of musical...

Review: ‘Miss You Like Hell’ at Baltimore Center Stage

Theater – including musical theater – has long been used as a medium for analysis of societal issues and concerns in a way that is more entertaining than an essay or lecture. Miss You Like Hell, now...

Review: ‘Proof’ at Everyman Theatre

No gift comes without a cost. And that lesson courses through every moment of Proof, David Auburn’s very fine Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which is being given a thrilling revival at Everyman Theatre....

Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre

Long a mainstay of the Baltimore community theater landscape, Fells Point Corner Theatre has been on quite a roll recently – delivering knockout productions like Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem last...

News: Charm City Fringe Announces 2019 Festival Lineup

Charm City Fringe announces the lineup for the eighth annual festival, now in its third year in the Bromo Arts District. Charm City Fringe will present 22 productions and over 90 performances during...

Review: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ by Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s (BSF) production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Tom Delise, delivers the “merry” promised in the title. The wives – Alice Ford (Emily Classen) and Margaret...

Review: ‘The Few’ by Unexpected Stage Company

The American interior West has long been a favored setting for stories about loneliness. The visual emptiness of vast open spaces – think of your favorite John Ford film – and the emotional distance...

Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

Not to be confused with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (1993-2011), the current “BSF” – Baltimore Shakespeare Factory – has another hit on its hands with their new production of Romeo and Juliet...

Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’ at Spotlighters

It’s the mid-1980s. The Oval Office is occupied by a former movie star, Al Gore has yet to create the Internet, and an aspiring actor from Alabama named Robert Harling lost his younger sister....

Review: ‘Tornkid’ by Cohesion Theatre Company and Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective

For its second show of the season, Cohesion Theatre Company has partnered with the recently-formed Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective to devise and produce the world premiere of Tornkid, by...

Review: ‘Queens Girl in Africa’ at Everyman Theatre

As the middle section of Caleen Sinette Jennings’ “Queens Girl Trilogy,” Queens Girl in Africa is presented in rotating rep with the first piece, Queens Girl in the World (read our review by Belle...

Review: ‘10x10x10’ A Ten-Minute Play Festival at Fells Point Corner Theatre

Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipation. For...

Review: ‘Cabaret’ at Silhouette Stages

Bless playwrights John Van Deuten/ Joe Masteroff, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb who give us a specific piece of theatre, which is chilling in its applicability to the social climate of...

Local Arts Institutions Among Recent NEA Grant Recipients

The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced more than $80 Million in arts funding awarded across the United States. This is the second round of NEA grant announcements for this year. The...

Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ at Spotlighters Theatre

Mount Vernon at the heart of Baltimore City is home to many fabulous jewels. One of these, tucked away below street level, is the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre. Distance-wise, it’s hardly a far...

Review: ‘Variations on Myth’ at Rapid Lemon Productions

This weekend at Baltimore Theatre Project, Rapid Lemon Productions opened Variations on Myth, both the second show in RLP’s Season of Belief and the historic 15th annual production of The Variations...

Review: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at Everyman Theatre

The mark of good theatre, of a truly transformative piece, is how universal it is. How much it speaks to the then and the now. Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinnette Jennings – currently playing...

Review: ‘How to Catch Creation’ at Baltimore Center Stage

Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage’s How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwright Christina...

Everyman Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Season

Everyman Theatre proudly presents its lineup for the upcoming 2019- 2020 season with a slate of offerings sure to enthrall audiences. This season features revered big-name revivals—award-winning plays...

Review: ‘Pink Milk’ at Single Carrot Theatre

“Those who can imagine anything can create the impossible.” – Alan Turing For its final production in its Remington home, Single Carrot Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Pink Milk. Written by...

Review: ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a challenging and much-loved absurdist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, has had long runs and featured many famous actors. Fells Point Corner Theatre’s ambitious...

Review: ‘Hamlet’ at the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

You’ve seen ten productions of Hamlet, you’ve seen ‘em all, right? There is nothing new you care to see at this point, because even the innovative approach is becoming tired. But have you ever seen a...

Director Laura Giannarelli Muses About ‘Ghost-Writer,’ Michael Hollinger’s Tale of Mystery and Love at Quotidian

Laura Giannarelli is a woman of many roles. A founder of Washington Stage Guild, she’s been a fixture of the DC stage for almost four decades. She’s been the mother-in-law from hell in Gulf View...

Review: ‘Beehive’ at Spotlighters Theatre

There are times when the theater takes daring artistic risks, asks uncomfortable questions, and exposes the darkest truths about our institutions and ourselves. We love the medium for that. We also...

Review: ‘Dinner with Friends’ at Everyman Theatre

Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, opened to an enthusiastic full house at Everyman on Friday. The play gives Director...

Review: ‘Henry IV, Part II’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its predecessor...

Baltimore Center Stage Announces 2019-2020 Season

Baltimore Center Stage today announce its upcoming season of mainstage plays to mark the debut programming under Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra: Miss You Like Hell Book and lyrics by Quiara...

Review: ‘Anything Goes’ at Silhouette Stages

Silhouette Stages’ production of Anything Goes with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse is presently playing at Slayton House...

Review: ‘Indecent’ at Baltimore Center Stage

As presented at Baltimore Center Stage, Indecent is a timely, timeless story, about a sexuality, about a religion, about a people, about all people. Audiences will leave this production emotionally...

Applications Now Being Accepted for 2019 Charm City Fringe Festival

The Charm City Fringe Festival has opened applications for its 8th annual theatre festival in Baltimore’s Bromo Arts District. Once again, application fees for Baltimore artists are waived in an...

Review: ‘The Effect’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre

It is impossible to ignore how closely the plot of The Effect, which opened Friday night at Fells Point Corner Theater – and in which two impressionable, screwed up young people are inextricably drawn...

Wagner’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ Arrives at Baltimore Concert Opera

Baltimore Concert Opera will present The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner on March 1st and 3rd. Based on Heinrich Heine’s retelling of the legend, a sea captain in a ghostly vessel is cursed to sail...

Review: ‘Cymbeline’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

You may never have heard of William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, King of Britain, as it is not often produced. More’s the pity. It’s much maligned as derivative, though the author merely borrows from...

Review: ‘Henry IV, Part I’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Intrigue! Battles! History! Excitement! In a stunningly entertaining display of stagecraft, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV, Part I features three of the best performances you’ll see this...

Review: ‘Everything is Wonderful’ at Everyman Theatre

Having helmed last season’s widely-acclaimed The Book of Joseph, Everyman Theatre Associate Artistic Director Noah Himmelstein has returned to the director’s chair for Everyman’s latest offering. Told...

2019 Helen Hayes Nominations Are Announced

Tonight, at a celebration honoring theater excellence on stages across the Washington area, theater artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre’s Helen Hayes...

Review: ‘The Mystery of Love and Sex’ at the Iron Crow Theatre

Human beings are mysterious creatures: how deeply can we know even those closest to us, or ourselves? What’s the cost of knowing? In Bathsheba Doran’s 2015 play, The Mystery of Love and Sex, having...

Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Baltimore Center Stage

“Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.” With this lyric, the Bechdel family invites the Baltimore Center Stage audience into their home – free of judgment and with all their family dysfunction on full...

Review: ‘Company’ by Stillpointe Theatre

When you go downtown to the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore City, you might not immediately think of the Wilkes School on Park Avenue as a theatrical venue, especially with the Baltimore School for the...

Review: ‘Jerusalem’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre

People staying when they need to go; people going when they long to stay. People hanging on to bits of myth and legend, or a bit of land, in the face of overwhelming forces of economic logic....

Review: ‘Thank You, Dad’ at Rapid Lemon Productions

In 2018, the 40th anniversary year of what’s become known as The Jonestown Massacre, Rapid Lemon Productions commissioned its first full-length play. Emerging local playwright Aladrian C. Wetzel was...

Review: ‘Blithe Spirit’ at Spotlighters Theatre

British comedies considerably older than Noel Coward’s 1941 Blithe Spirit enjoy frequent, high-spiritedly successful revivals. Think The Importance of Being Earnest or Charley’s Aunt (a sprightly...

Review: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ by Iron Crow Theatre

When the pre-show features an audience participation orgasm contest, can things possibly get any wilder? Yes indeed, as Iron Crow Theatre’s Rocky Horror Show readily proves. Rocky has always been an...

‘From Here to There’: Reston’s Elizabeth Bishop Shares Her Musical Journey With Hometown Audience

A perfect fit for a convivial concert on a winter’s night is coming to the acoustically rich Reston CenterStage. It is a cozy evening of personally selected music and song with critically acclaimed...

Review: ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ at Everyman Theatre

The Importance Of Being Earnest, often touted as a perfect comedy, plays at Everyman Theatre in downtown Baltimore through the end of the month. Oscar Wilde’s final play, as performed by Everyman’s...

Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ at Ballet Theatre of Maryland

Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s production of The Nutcracker is a colorful sensation, with beautiful costumes and lovely dancing mixed with inventive lighting and a charming set. Choreographed by...

Review: ‘A Wonder in my Soul’ at Baltimore Center Stage

“We fight like cats, but we love like dogs.” Marcus Gardley, the author of A Wonder in my Soul has just the right way of putting things. Baltimore Center Stage continues its standard of excellence...