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A brilliantly staged classic pulls back the covers on our dreams
By Andrea Appleton
2/1/2012
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Baltimore’s comedy scene is going DIY too
By Joseph Martin
1/25/2012
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A story filled with dramatic changes. one moment, the couple embraces, only to be flung apart again
By Erin Gleeson
1/25/2012
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Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 existential exercise
By Laura Dattaro
1/25/2012
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A classic novel comes to breathtaking life
By Andrea Appleton
1/18/2012
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Hilarious production explores identity, growing up gay, and what happens when your best friend is a chicken.
By Laura Dattaro
1/11/2012
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Featuring Last Chance: The Story of a Broken Heartland
By Andrea Appleton
1/4/2012
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A straightforward show saluting a prolific songwriter charms like her work
By Erin Gleeson
12/28/2011
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A dazzling puppet-filled spectacle hits the Hippodrome
By Erin Gleeson
12/14/2011
The performer talks about writing, acting, and the Golden Age of Baltimore comedy
By Joe MacLeod
12/14/2011
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Local playwright impresses with her theatrical debut
By Laura Dattaro
12/7/2011
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The Unveiled playwright talks about diversity within the Muslim world and the power of theater
By Andrea Appleton
11/30/2011
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An old chestnut takes on a refreshing new flavor
By Andrew Holter
11/30/2011
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Meta comedy about closeted Hollywood mostly convinces
By Andrea Appleton
11/23/2011
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Award winning actor practices a reverse kind of method acting
By Geoffrey Himes
11/16/2011
Taut drama takes on three men, a junk store, and the heist that tears them apart
By Anna Ditkoff
11/16/2011
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A DIY production of Bertolt Brecht's classic promises your money’s worth
By Laura Dattaro
11/9/2011
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A DIY production of Bertolt Brecht's classic promises your money’s worth
By Laura Dattaro
11/9/2011
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A challenging, mixed-race production of the Tennessee Williams play exposes the unspoken
By Andrew Holter
11/9/2011
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15-member troupe explores the fraught topic of body image in B.A.R.E.: Bodies, Attitudes, Reflections, EXPOSED
By Andrea Appleton
11/2/2011
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A riveting production brings a disturbing play to life
By Laura Dattaro
10/26/2011
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The Arena Players produce an idiosyncratic, winning version of a modern classic
By Andrew Holter
10/19/2011
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An 18th-century play skewering young love and parental expectations gets big laughs
By Geoffrey Himes
10/19/2011
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The Strand concocts an odd but compelling experience
By Andrea Appleton
10/12/2011
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Line between theater and religion is rubbed out beyond recognition in Single Carrot Theatre production
By Geoffrey Himes
10/5/2011
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Revives material from the 25-year-old Kathy and Mo Show.
By Andrea Appleton
10/5/2011
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Billie Taylor hopes to transform 65-year-old Charles Village venue into the city's newest performance space
By Andrea Appleton
10/5/2011
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The multi-hyphenate comic talks about his new film, the endangered truth, and Diablo Cody cramming it
By Joe MacLeod
9/28/2011
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Four bumbling losers face their mortality
By Emily Schiller
9/21/2011
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The life stages of one woman, brought powerfully to life by three
By Laura Dattaro
9/21/2011
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Everyman’s shattering production of an American classic
By Andrea Appleton
9/14/2011
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Powerful play confronts racism, Facebook, and madness
By Laura Dattaro
8/31/2011
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Promising local family drama favors the daughter
By Geoffrey Himes
8/24/2011
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BPF musical a confusing detour despite good tunes and strong turns by its college-aged cast
By Audrey Szepinski
8/10/2011
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Time-traveling comedy steers clear of Back to the Future turf
By Audrey Szepinski
7/27/2011
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A local playwright takes on the healing properties of art
By Audrey Szepinski
7/20/2011
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A local playwright brings the internet to the stage
By John Barry
7/13/2011
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Lively play confronts the end with almost childish preciousness
By Bret McCabe
7/6/2011
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Satirical musical adaptation of cult flick a little too eager to please
By Laura Dattaro
6/29/2011
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Veteran local theater gem delivers satisfying, old-fashioned whodunit
By John Barry
6/29/2011
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Cabaret Red Light cruises into town aboard its seafaring theater
By Andrea Appleton
6/15/2011
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Cast highlights a bloody relationship drama
By Bret McCabe
6/8/2011
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BROS delivers a little too much rock opera for one hand night
By Bret McCabe
6/8/2011
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WordBRIDGE wants to bring playwrights, theater communities together
By John Barry
6/8/2011
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A Cockney flower girl learns to speak the queen’s English in this sharp skewering of class
By Geoffrey Himes
5/25/2011
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A half-dozen shorts make up a hit-or-miss night at the theater
By Laura Dattaro
5/25/2011
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Cast fails to find the sparks that make this class-conflict study fire
By Geoffrey Himes
5/4/2011
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Dostoevsky’s philosophical tome streamlined into gripping 90-minute one-act
By Andrea Appleton
5/4/2011
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A supposedly theater thing I’d probably do again
By Bret McCabe
5/4/2011
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The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)
By Bret McCabe
4/27/2011
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Ordinary people take small steps that lead to a death in experimental Russian play
By John Barry
4/27/2011
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More than 50 artists invite you to an adventure through alienation
By Bret McCabe
4/27/2011
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Run of the Mill offers a skillfully handled look at disorder
By Bret McCabe
4/20/2011
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Just your average romantic comedy about a guy and a shark meeting cute
By Bret McCabe
4/13/2011
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MICA’s young Rivals of the West company takes on Streetcar
By Bret McCabe
4/6/2011
Comedy:
On podcasting as career tool and place to be a jerk
By Joe Macleod
4/6/2011
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Holiday memories power this thoughtful, if uneven, play
By Bret McCabe
3/30/2011
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Sly treatment turns boilerplate courtroom drama into something with a bit more presence
By Bret McCabe
3/23/2011
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Family get together redefines “family” in this harshly comic gem
By Bret McCabe
3/23/2011
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The former Fort Thunder filmmaker and theater artist talks about traveling to the sun, debuting his solo show in Baltimore, and failed mini-malls
By Geeta Dayal
3/23/2011
Over-compensating script about escaping planned community lifelessness packs an odd power
By Laura Dattaro
3/16/2011
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Performance Workshop Theatre returns in a new space with some old tales
By Geoffrey Himes
3/16/2011
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A minister experiences a crisis of faith in this durable religious investigation
By Geoffrey Himes
2/16/2011
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The humorist on pain, drinking, and how a dive bar helped cure his depression
By Andrea Appleton
2/16/2011
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Home is where the harsh is
By Bret McCabe
2/9/2011
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Playwright's manipulations far too apparent in this two-character production
By Geoffrey Himes
2/2/2011
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Susan Mele's Roxi Starr returns as a reality TV fame whore
By Laura Dattaro
1/19/2011
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The Arena Players produce an idiosyncratic, winning version of a modern classic
By Andrew Holter
10/19/2011
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Second City's Baltimore satire hits more often than misses
By Andrea Appleton
1/12/2011
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Baltimore Shakespeare Festival dresses the Bard's political drama in power suits
By Anna Ditkoff
12/15/2010
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The Strand Theater offers a peak inside one dysfunctional family's holiday circus
By Wendy Ward
12/15/2010
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Spotlighters Theater playfully wrestles with Charles Ludlam's riff on Hamlet
By Laura Dattaro
12/15/2010
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Single Carrot Theater searches for nirvana in Gao Xingjian's metaphysical play
By Bret McCabe
12/15/2010
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Here are two productions that not only don’t suck, but make holiday shows genuinely entertaining.
By Bret McCabe
12/15/2010
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The year in local stage is bookended by a pair of DIY transitions.
12/8/2010
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Playwrights go straight to the soldiers to bring their stories to the stage
By John Barry
12/1/2010
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Another Arthur Miller play wanders through the minefield of the nuclear family
11/24/2010
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The standup comedian on growing up, reproducing, and stupid babies
11/17/2010
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Narrative performance obliquely veers into headlong confrontation with abuse
By Bret McCabe
11/10/2010
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Playwright/actor Joseph Ritsch ventures into the mind of a serial killer
By John Barry
11/3/2010
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Heady satire takes hilarious and deadly aim at virtual "culture"
By Bret McCabe
10/27/2010
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Curious Shakespeare production fails to bring its interesting ideas into dramatic unison
By Bret McCabe
10/27/2010
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The Strand's cast makes an impressive effort with a disturbing script
By Glennis Markison
10/20/2010
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Giles Havergal's stage adaptation transcribes the source novel way too much
By Geoffrey Himes
9/8/2010
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Side Show tells an ordinary human story through the lives of two extraordinary women
By Bret McCabe
8/24/2010
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Musical charts the rise and early demise of Lubbock’s favorite son
By Rebecca Fishbein
8/11/2010
