Takoma Park"based Alex and Olmsted is a puppet theater company also specializing in film work. Two years ago they received a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation (their second) for developme…
A doorman building in one of the fashionable artsy neighborhoods of lower Manhattan finds two couples getting together for an evening of drinking and vitriol. The hostess, a white artist, is…
Seven years have passed since Tamir Rice. These years are producing a creative upheaval in the theater as playwrights raise defiant voices against broken systems and tragically wasted lives.…
Noah Silas is a company member of Baltimore's Rapid Lemon Productions, the resident theater company at Motor House in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District of Baltimore. For the …
 Contemporary French playwright Yasmina Reza specializes in obnoxious characters who bicker over first-world problems. In both of her best-known works, "'Art'" and "God of Carnage," she …
In 2013, an NSA subcontractor named Edward Snowden stole classified information and leaked it to members of the press. This play isn't about him. …complex, satisfying theatrical experience…
 Not all history lessons are simple. Not all are easy to digest. Sometimes, one is confronted by a human story in which heroes and villains aren't so readily tagged, where the message is…
Friday morning in the cramped Southside Chicago apartment of the Younger family finds Ruth making breakfast. Walter Lee, her husband, is jockeying for time in the shared bathroom down the ha…
It's a morning like any other morning. The sun is bright; it'll be hot later. A pair of shopkeepers make small talk. But something is awry. Peculiar. Gradually, the men realize that all of t…
Imagine a story of an 11-ish-year-old girl caught up in a catastrophic weather event. It lurches her away from familiar surroundings and forces her to embark on an epic, heroic adventure so …
Fifteen years ago, six Black students at Louisiana's Jena High School were arrested, accused of attacking a white student. The case of the "Jena Six" gained wide notoriety, in part, because …
At the turn of 17th century, the Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Hungary. Related to the king of Poland, the grand duke of Lithuania, and the p…
Add another Baltimore stage to the growing list of "post-COVID" re-openings. The pandemic is not yet over, of course, but thanks to thorough precautions and a brand new HVAC system, Spotligh…
Shortly before eight o'clock on the last evening in September, an announcement rang out through the lobby of Fells Point Corner Theatre: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in 570 days…
In the late 1970s, Bill Cosby's career was flat-lining. He had paid his dues in nightclubs and as Robert Culp's television sidekick, but after the '60s, he found acting jobs few and small. R…
Fans of downtown Baltimore's Chesapeake Shakespeare Company have long considered their yearly al fresco performances in Ellicott City as a favorite summertime happening. This year, CSC renew…
Fans of gospel music will immediately recognize the title of Arena Players' current offering, "Cleveland," not as reference to a city, but as reference to its central character. The Reverend…
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"Huck, who is you hollerin' at?""I'm hollerin' at Tom.""Oh, Huck, how can you act so, when you know po' Mars Tom "" Then he let off an awful scream… Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detectiv…
A Korean Christian girls' youth group from L.A. is in Bangkok with its pastor. The teen missionaries are excited over the prospects of saving the souls of red light district tourists " or, o…
On February 17th, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced updates to the City's phase 1 COVID restrictions. These included the return of live indoor entertainment at 25% capacity, with ma…
In 1999, the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays was in its 24th season. Beginning to feel creative pressure from the relative upstart Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana…
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings' Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Balt…
 A little over 200 years separate the publications of Jane Austen's beloved novel, "Pride and Prejudice," and its theatrical successor, "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley" by Lauren Gu…
Baltimore's Everyman Theatre is preparing to open their 2020-21 season with a third entry in the "Queens Girl" trilogy by Caleen Sinnette Jennings. Consistent with the two earlier production…