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Beautiful stories of human connection in the Off-Broadway premiere of ‘Los Otros’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres
Presented by Premieres NYC as part of its revived bi-annual Inner Voices series, the new one-act musical Los Otros, by Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh (book and lyrics) and Michael John LaChiusa...
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An electric ‘Skin of Our Teeth’ at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre
A 5,000-year hurricane of familial, environmental, and societal destruction is unleashed on a typical American family in this classic by Thornton Wilder.
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How to fight injustice? Felicia Curry on the crux of ‘My Lord, What a Night’
The incisive and inspiring play filmed at Ford’s Theatre is now streaming through November 4.
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With ‘Flyin’ West,’ Everyman Theatre delivers on its commitment to EDI
Pearl Cleage’s groundbreaking play features pioneering Black women overcoming daunting odds.
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‘Steel Magnolias’ at Everyman Theatre is a beauty
Endearingly heartwarming, the production demonstrates the enduring power of friendship and the therapeutic magic of laughter.
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New troupe to gender-bend ‘Twelfth Night’ at the DC War Memorial
A new adaptation with pop music, performed by Her Majesty & Sons al fresco.
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Everyman Theatre’s all-live 2021/22 season kicks off in August
Six-play lineup includes family hits, award-winning Broadway plays, updated American classics, and world premieres.
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A powerhouse performance in ‘An Almost Holy Picture’ from Everyman
Bruce Randolph Nelson stars as a father whose faith and love are tested in a play full of grace.
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Perisphere Theater to stage R. Eric Thomas’s comic ‘Time Is On Our Side’
DC-area premiere of award-winning play about queering history.
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Magical ‘Almost Holy Picture’ to top off season at Everyman Theatre
Heather McDonald’s Pulizter Prize–nominated play will be the final show in the company’s ambitious and nontraditional 2020–2021 season.
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An enthralling story of love in ‘Berta, Berta’ from Everyman Theatre
I could not help but root for these two lost and lonely souls to find solace in each other.
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Angelica Chéri’s epic love story ‘Berta, Berta’ is next at Everyman
Playwright Angelica Chéri’s mystical and moving play Berta, Berta is next up at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. Founder and Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi announced that Everyman is set to stream...
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Everyman Theatre updates slate of plays for 30th-anniversary season
After delivering on the promise of rehearsing, filming, and streaming the first two production of the season, Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains and Cry It Out, the staff and artists at...
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‘Cry It Out’ at Everyman Theatre airs real-life new-mom pressures
Award-winning playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out is a beautiful commentary on real life. The struggles of parenting in an age of never enough. An homage to working parents and stay-at-homers...
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‘Cry It Out’ comedy about motherhood up next from Everyman Theatre
Everyman Theatre actors, designers, and crew are back in the rehearsal room preparing for the run of Molly Smith Metzler’s 2017 play, Cry It Out. The full production will be filmed at the theater and...
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Felicia Curry is a sheer powerhouse in ‘Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains’ at Everyman Theatre
In its efforts to further enhance its commitment to theater accessibility on every level of comfort, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre reawakened its 30th-anniversary season opener to digital access,...
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Everyman Theatre premieres ‘Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains’
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre will bet on another successful run with Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, premiering for in-person performances on November 19. The...
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What’s the future of live theater beyond COVID-19?: A point-counterpoint between Audrey Cefaly and Elliott Bales
What follows is an extraordinary conversation. It started as a Facebook post by award-winning playwright Audrey Cefaly. It was joined by her dear friend, acclaimed actor Elliott Bales, who doubles as...
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‘The Royale’ Director Paige Hernandez talks boxing, hip hop, and the virtue of politeness
Multidisciplinary artist Paige Hernandez is not a fan of boundaries. Whether performing, directing or teaching, the Baltimore native has made a career out of blending artistic forms and reaching...
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Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer on directing her play ‘Be Here Now’ at Everyman Theatre
I’d say Deborah Zoe Laufer is having a bit of a moment right now, but it’s been going on so long I think it’s fairer to say she’s having a bit of an amazing career. Laufer’s plays have been produced...
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‘Murder on the Orient Express’ thrills at Everyman Theatre
All Aboard! Get your ticket for Everyman Theatre’s Murder on the Orient Express and enjoy a visually striking whodunnit that is twisty-turny fun for this holiday season. In attendance opening night...
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‘Radio Golf’ at Everyman better than par for the course
Everyman Theatre’s current production, billed as August Wilson’s Radio Golf, as though his name is part of the title (it isn’t), doesn’t have much golf in it. It’s not even about golf. It’s about a...
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Prominent NYC scenic designers debut at Everyman with ‘Radio Golf’
Everyman Theatre of Baltimore is proud to have Christopher and Justin Swader in house to design the set for their new production of August Wilson’s “Radio Golf.” The New York-based team has worked...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Review: ‘Sweat’ at Everyman Theatre
Lynn Nottage last year became the first woman to win a second Pulitzer Prize for Drama thanks to her play Sweat, a dramatization of the collapse of the American unskilled labor market circa 2000, now...
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Review: ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ at Everyman Theatre
True magic happens not when we’re convinced that an illusion is true, but when we realize that it can’t be so yet still refuse to believe it isn’t. Such a spell is cast over the audience at Everyman...
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Review: ‘The Book of Joseph’ at Everyman Theatre
With the advent and popularity of exploratory DNA tools like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to unearth family lineage, people are increasingly fascinated with discovering who they are and where they come...
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A Modern Classic Takes on Epic Proportions: Constellation Theatre Brightens Brecht’s Manifesto, Adds Musical Makeover to ‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’
Last week, I decided to venture off my usual path and check out the Constellation Theatre, which performs at Source in the lively 14th Street corridor. What lured me there was the chance to see a new...
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Review: ‘Aubergine’ at Olney Theatre Center (Women’s Voices Theater Festival)
There are certain meals that stay with you forever. It could be the pie that your mom makes every Christmas, the soup that you made for your son when he had the flu, or the casserole you made your...
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Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ at Everyman Theatre
Long Day’s Journey Into Night chills to the bone. The wind was howling as the cold air clipper passed through downtown Baltimore last Friday evening. Inside Everyman Theatre, an even more ferocious...
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In the Moment: Interview with Director Stevie Zimmerman on Special ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Performance
Inspiring generations of theater-goers and music lovers alike is one of the aims of Director Stevie Zimmerman by connecting the talents of the professional Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO) with the...
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Review: ‘The Revolutionists’ at Everyman Theatre
“It’s a powerful thing to come together and laugh in a scary time.” – Playwright Lauren Gunderson Mon Dieu! I had no idea how much I needed a good laugh until I attended a performance of Everyman...
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Review: ‘Intimate Apparel’ at Everyman Theatre
In 2015, Everyman Theatre produced an acclaimed run of Playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined. Tazewell Thompson directed and actors Jade Wheeler, Bueka Uwemedimo, and Resident...
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Interview: Jade Wheeler and Bueka Uwemedimo from Everyman Theatre’s production of ‘Intimate Apparel’
Intimate Apparel is the story of a woman named Esther. In 1905, Esther is a 35-year-old woman who lives in a rooming house with other single ladies. She is a skilled seamstress who makes her living...
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Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ at Everyman Theatre
Though written 30 years ago, few contemporary plays speak so profoundly to America’s current situation in the world as does David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, now playing at Baltimore’s Everyman...
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Interview: Everyman Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi on Serendipity and ‘M. Butterfly’
There’s a story circulating about Everyman Theatre’s Artistic Director, Vincent Lancisi, and it’s one of the best What I Did on My Summer Vacation yarns around. It involves two continents, 16,000...
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Everyman Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival join forces for stage-inspired screening series at the Parkway
Six-part guest-hosted series merges audiences and art forms Baltimore, MD – Everyman Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) are pleased to announce “Everyman at the Parkway,” a season-long...
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Interview: Dawn Ursula and Vincent Lancisi on ‘Trouble in Mind’ and Everyman Theatre’s Salon Series
Everyman Theatre of Baltimore is nearing the end of its season with the opening of Noises Off on May 19th, and soon the performance of their last Salon Series staged reading, Trouble in Mind on June...
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Review: ‘Noises Off’ at Everyman Theatre
It is always a good time seeing a production of Noises Off, but Everyman Theatre (Everyman) took it to another level last night. If you are a regular theatregoer, it is quite likely you have seen...
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‘The Show Must Go On!’ Preview, Part 2: Interview with Jessica Myles Henkin
Stoop Storytelling, the Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features regular people telling “the extraordinary, true tales of their lives” is partnering with Everyman Theatre to present a night...
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‘The Show Must Go On!’ Preview, Part 1: Interview with Everyman Founding Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi
In conjunction with their last show of the 2016/17 season – the classic farce, Noises Off – Everyman Theatre is partnering with Stoop Storytelling to present a night of side-splitting stories about...