Review: ‘Bound to the Rocks’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Bound to the Rocks, written by Laura Katherine Hayes and produced by Something About KAZ, deals with domestic violence in a relationship. Based on...
Review: ‘Frosty the Snowman’ at Adventure Theatre MTC
Adventure Theatre MTC presents Frosty the Snowman, written by William Francis, with additional dialogue and lyrics Jason Schlafstein and Kenny Neal. Schlafstein also directs...
Review: André Watts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Strathmore Music...
André Watts brought an ecstatic audience to its feet after his magnificent performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor....
Review: ‘Coffin in Egypt’at Quotidian Theatre Company
Anyone who thinks that storytelling is a lost art should hurry on over to the Quotidian Theatre Company, where Jane Squier Bruns is now...
Review: ‘Hamlet’ at American University Rude Mechanicals
There are some who argue that the works of William Shakespeare should never be altered, but instead be treated as sacred texts, performed just...
Review: ‘Charlotte’s Web’ at Imagination Stage
If you’re on the lookout for an engaging, kid-friendly activity this holiday season, look no further than the classic tale of Charlotte’s Web at...
Review: ‘St Nicholas’ at Quotidian Theatre Company
Make no mistake, St Nicholas at Quotidian Theatre Company is not a Christmas play. Conor McPherson’s one-man-show starring Steve Beall and directed by Jack...
Review: ‘The Lion King’ at the Hippodrome Theatre
The Lion King is epic. It is so full of throat-tightening spectacle and aural splendor that Baltimore’s grand Hippodrome Theatre can appear at times...
Review: ‘Annie’ at Olney Theatre Center
The musical Annie is 40 years old this year, and thanks to the Olney Theatre Center’s cheerful new production, a whole new generation of...
In the Moment: ‘Crazy for You’ at Signature Theatre
What a giddy, joyful afterimage of mouthwatering kinetic alchemy. Under the confident direction of chemistry-setter Mathew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has produced an irresistible Crazy...
Interview: Submersive Productions Co-Artistic Directors GLENN RICCI and URSULA MARCUM on...
In April of this year, I wrote:
Submersive Productions has outdone itself with its new production, H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum presents: The Treasures of New...
Review: Pinchas Zukerman Performs Bach at The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
We learned, shortly after 8 p.m., that half the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was stuck on 495. Traffic unites people with weak social bonds; it...
Review: ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
MAP Underground, the 14 Karat Cabaret performance space in the basement of the Bromo Arts District’s Maryland Art Place, was the perfect venue to...
In the Moment: Arena Stage and USO “Annual Military Thanksgiving”
It is a season of thanksgiving and spending time with family and friends. But, untold numbers of D.C. and Baltimore area military families spend the...
Review: ‘It Takes Two…’ at Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D.C.
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC has just offered the DC Metro Theatre Region an alternately wistful, romantic, and humorous cabaret review entitled...
Review: ‘The Real Americans’ at Mosaic Theater Company
"Why am I a stranger in my own land?" the preternaturally talented actor-writer Dan Hoyle asks during his solo excursion into the heartland of...
In the Moment: Interview with Theater Photographer Teresa Castracane
Often, images of a theatrical production help establish the initial interest and expectations for a potential audience. Photographs can draw an audience into a...
Review: ‘All My Sons’ at The Potomac Playmakers
All My Sons, the post-WWII Arthur Miller drama presented by the Potomac Playmakers, tells the story of how one man’s greed and dishonesty can...
Review: ‘Childish Things’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Hamlet Cooper is an archaeologist. In Childish Things, they use real artifacts from their childhood to recreate scenes which take the audience back to...
Review: ‘The Little Mermaid’ at Damascus Theatre Company
Both “Under the Sea” and in “The World Above,” Damascus Theatre Company brings us a truly charming production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Based...