Coming to the Folger: The Merchant of . . . D.C.?
Playwright Aaron Posner grapples with the Shylock problem.
Playwright Aaron Posner grapples with the Shylock problem.
Music, plays, poetry " and a very modern, very big version of the Celtic harp.
At Pointless Theatre, drama meets slapstick meets puppets in "Hugo Ball."
Gala Hispanic Theatre sets 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' in a cockfighting ring.
WILD WITH HAPPY By Colman Domingo through June 29 At Center Stage There's a scene early in Colman Domingo's Wild with Happy at Center Stage where the protagonist, a 40-year…
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang Directed by Eric Rosen Through May 25 At Center Stage Anton Chekhov thought of his plays as comedies, while Konstantin Stani…
Pete Ross says that a survey of printed material in the United States between the 1730s and the 1830s turns up 58 different references to the banjo"and 57 of those citations describe the ins…
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Through April 13 At Center Stage I've seen Shakespeare updated in a lot of different ways, but Center Stage's current production of Twelfth Night is …
Written by R.M. O'Brien Directed by Mason Ross Through March 2 At the Annex Theater Buried within the meandering exposition, parodic nostalgia, undigested history, and superfluous…
Tales of Ordinary Madness By Petr Zelenka Through March 2 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre Before the opening night performance of Petr Zelenka's Tales of Ordinary Madness at the…
Where The Whangdoodle Sings Written by K. Frithjof Peterson Directed by J.D. Sivert Through Jan. 19 At the Theatre Project
Beowulf Adapted by Charlie Bethel Through Dec. 22 at the Theatre Project Beowulf, the English language's first literary masterpiece, is a tale with many characters and several important…
A Civil War Christmas By Paula Vogel Through Dec. 22 at Center Stage Have you ever seen one of those historical pageants put on by museums, high schools, or small-town centennials?
St. Nicholas By Conor McPherson Directed by Marlyn Robinson Through Nov. 24 at the Performance Workshop Theatre St. Nicholas , the new production at the Performance Workshop T…
Earlier this fall, Everyman Theatre brought one of the American theater's great characters back to Baltimore.
Allen Christian is standing in front of one of his four striking sculptures in the new exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum when he says, "Sometimes it's helpful to hear the story be…
Animal Crackers By George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Henry Wishcamper Through Oct. 13 at Center Stage George Kaufman co-wrote several stage-comedy classics…
The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams through Oct. 6 At the Everyman Theatre It's tempting to think that we already know all we need to know about Amanda Wingfield, the domineering …
Clybourne Park By Bruce Norris Beneatha's Place By Kwame Kwei-Armah Through June 16 at Center Stage Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a great play for many reasons, …
10x10 Through May 5 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre It turns out that it's easier to make people laugh in 10 minutes than it is to sober them up.
Home Written by Samm-Art Williams Through March 17 at the Rep Stage
EQUUS Written by Peter Shaffer Directed by Mason Ross Through March 3 at the Annex Theater
The Mountaintop Written by Katori Hall; directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah Through Feb. 24 at Center Stage
The Full Circle Dance Company's Moving Passages: Dances Inspired by Writing relies on speech almost as much as it does on music. The challenge for the program's 13 dancers is to find a rhyth…
Mixed Doubles By Eight Playwrights Directed by Marc Horwitz Through Jan. 13 at Performance Workshop Theatre