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In Medea, now playing at Mobtown Players, an ancient drama is played out amidst the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood. It is the story of a woman driven by rage and indignation, seeking revenge for the destruction of her marriage, who makes a choice no mother should have to make. Directors Melissa O’Brien, Caitlin [...]
Private Lives by Noel Coward, now playing at Vagabond Players, is over eighty years old but no less funny or relevant than when it first premiered in 1930. It tells the story of Elyot (Michael P. Sullivan) and Amanda (Ann Turiano), a divorced couple who discover that they are both honeymooning with their new spouses [...]
The main advantage of Spotlighters Theatre’s rather unconventional and intimate space is that a family drama like Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance feels as if it is taking place in your own living room. In this case, the effect is both enlightening and a little debilitating–we are privy to nearly three hours of household drama, [...]
Washington, DC’s Shakespeare Theatre Company is well known for its remarkable talent, fearlessness, and ingenuity in reproducing the Bard of Avon’s plays for a contemporary audience. The Winter’s Tale constitutes a particular challenge, because its tone shifts between the third and fourth acts between tragedy and comedy (the reason it is sometimes grouped with Shakespeare’s [...]
The collapse of the housing bubble in 2007 is considered one of the major causes of the recession. It in itself was caused by unscrupulous businessmen focused on short-term gain at the expense of long-term security. While David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross was written in the 1980s, it is a microcosm of the brutal business [...]
On December 17, 1996, a rebel group called the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took hundreds of high-level dignitaries hostage at the Japanese embassy residence in Lima, Peru. While many hostages were released, some were held for a total of 126 days–more than four months since first stepping through the doors to attend Ambassador Aoki’s [...]
Mud Blue Sky, currently in its world premiere at Centerstage, is hands down one of the most nuanced, coherent shows to come out of Baltimore this season. On the surface, it sounds like a bizarre premise–three flight attendants and a teenage boy in a rented tux and Chuck Taylors wind up spending prom night in [...]
The Last Five Years, now playing at Spotlighters Theatre, is more of a song cycle than a musical but its organization does not deflect from its emotionally raw and occasionally devastating content. The story, told almost entirely through song, follows the relationship of struggling actress Cathy (Norma Gomez) and novelist Jaime (Bart Debicki) through five [...]
The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell, now playing at Vagabond Theatre, is rather maudlin in subject but surprisingly funny. The story follows three Queens, NY widows who meet each month at the graves of their deceased husbands. Each one has a different outlook—Doris (Janise Whelan) spends her time cleaning the area around her husband’s tombstone, [...]
In-Flight Theater’s Naomi’s Flight, currently playing at Baltimore Theatre Project, is something truly unique and significant in the scope of performance. In-Flight Theater’s brand of aerial theater (performed inches above the floor, on steel sculptures suspended from the ceiling) is interesting in and of itself, but what is important about this piece is the theater’s [...]
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds her Chameleon Skin by Kirsten Childs, now playing at Strand Theater, is a musical journey of self-discovery and racial identity. It follows the life of one Viveca “Bubbly” Stanton (Ines Nassara), a young woman whose efforts to appear as inconspicuous and cheerful as possible lead her to question her surroundings, [...]
Theatre is very seldom an interactive process. The experience of an audience member generally is as follows: one walks into the theatre, sits down, and watches—the process is voyeuristic, certainly, but not participatory. Dog & pony dc is turning this notion on its head with A Killing Game, their new “audience integrated” show now playing at [...]
The Strand Theater Company, where Deletta Gillespie’s What A Girl Wants is currently playing, has a rather unassuming exterior. It is nestled in the heart of Station North, Baltimore’s slowly gentrifying theatre district. Inside, a dramatic high ceiling, low stage, and comfortable chairs make it a truly unique space in which to see anything, let [...]
The late, great Nora Ephron once said: “I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.” Love, Loss and What I Wore, co-written with her sister Delia and currently playing at the Fells Point Corner Theatre, is the culmination of that ideal. This play began as a [...]
