‘Lookingglass Alice’ at Center Stage Updates Lewis Carroll’s Classic
Photo by Richard Anderson, courtesy of Jmore By Martha Thomas Baltimore Center Stage had “Lookingglass Alice” in its season lineup long before Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was on the radar or...
View ArticleOld Goucher Theater to be Revived as Second-Run Playhouse, Research Lab
Image via Twitter. After several years sitting dormant, the theater building on W. 25th Street in Old Goucher will soon serve two purposes. During the day, it will be a fully functional research lab...
View ArticleCast of ‘Corpus Christi’ suspends Iron Crow Theatre show in wake of...
Image via Facebook In the wake of allegations of sexual harassment and unprofessional behavior at the city’s only dedicated queer theater company, Iron Crow Theatre, the cast of the upcoming show...
View ArticleEvent Pick: ‘Homebodies,’ a two-person puppet show centered around a puzzle box
Still via Alex & Olmsted/YouTube “Homebodies,” a curious-looking play about a puzzling box and the larger concept of what makes a home a home, premieres tonight at Mid-Town Belvedere’s Baltimore...
View ArticleAmid growing buzz, Baltimore Improv Group tries an experiment: Make shows free
Photo via Baltimore Improv Group/Facebook The last six months have been kind to the Baltimore Improv Group. The nonprofit comedy organization has settled into its newly renovated home in Station North,...
View ArticleBaltimore Rock Opera Society turns to ‘pure B-horror’ for its latest original...
Cover for “Incredibly Dead!” courtesy of Baltimore Rock Opera Society Having previously acted in two Baltimore Rock Opera Society shows,”Incredibly Dead!” co-director Mike Ziccardi was familiar with...
View ArticleEvent Pick: See Acme Corporation’s ‘Follow No Strangers to the Fun Places’
Photo by Britt Olsen-Ecker, via the Acme Corporation. A review in D.C. Metro Theater Arts likened seeing “Follow No Strangers to the Fun Places” to “attending a graduate class for which you never got...
View ArticleExit Interview: Kwame Kwei-Armah reflects on his time at Center Stage, his...
Image courtesy of Center Stage. Over the course of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s seven-year run as artistic director, Baltimore Center Stage regulars have grown accustomed to seeing him walking around during...
View ArticleQ&A With James Magruder, Baltimore Writer of the Go-Gos Musical on Broadway
Since previews of Head Over Heels, the Go-Gos musical which opens tonight on Broadway, began at the gorgeously restored 970-seat Hudson Theatre on June 23, the demographic of its audience has leaned a...
View ArticleSisters of Pantry Pride
Just in time for Halloween, Baltimore-born playwright/actor/director and fiction writer Kimberley Lynne recounts the evening she and her mother gallivanted in most conspicuous costumes. In 1976, my...
View ArticleThe Play’s The Thing: Shakespeare In Love Brings Love, Humor to Baltimore...
Shakespeare In Love at Baltimore Center Stage. Video still via Baltimore Center Stage Baltimore Center Stage has continued its fall season with Shakespeare In Love, a theatrical adaptation of the...
View ArticleIn new three-act opera, Acme Corporation invites audience members to watch...
Admit it. You were introduced to opera by Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes. No shame, most of us were. But how many of us created a theater company based on the tragic persistence, scientific creativity,...
View ArticleIron Crow Theatre’s production of ‘Rent’ coming to M&T Bank Exchange, Feb. 16-18
After hosting parties, conferences and other community gatherings, Baltimore’s newest events venue will be used for the first time as a theater. Iron Crow Theatre announced that it will present five...
View ArticleHow Chesapeake Shakespeare Company awoke ‘The Oresteia’ for a modern audience.
Imagine it: Argos, one island of many in the Peloponnese region of Greece. In the dim evening a lone watchman, fighting off bad dreams, sees a beacon light from the East: a fair omen indicating the...
View Article‘Miss Holmes’ reimagines iconic detective duo of Holmes and Watson
“Miss Holmes,” a gender-swapped reimagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, will premiere in Baltimore next month at Fells Point Corner Theater...
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