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AGRESTE adds Brazilian flavor to Greek Tragedy at Spooky Action Theater
From October 26th through November 19th, Washington’s ever-inventive Spooky Action Theater is home to the opening show of their 2023-24 season, the first entirely programmed and produced by their new artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova. Director and translator Danilo Gambini helms the world premiere of his own new translation of Agreste (Drylands), a play by celebrated […]
THE CHINESE LADY visits Everyman Theatre
From October 22nd though November 19th, Baltimore’s resident Everyman Theatre is producing Lloyd Suh’s critically acclaimed 2018 play, The Chinese Lady. The historical drama, which tells the seemingly fantastical tale of Afong Moy–thought to have been the first Chinese woman in America when she arrived, at age 14, in 1834–across some 70 years of her life […]
E. Faye Butler tells it like it is for the Everyman Theatre gala
Saturday, September 30th, Everyman Theatre hosts “A Night for Baltimore:” a gala event to benefit their education and community programs as well as to celebrate the many artists and creative spirits who help keep live theater alive and well here in our city. Included with admission will be food and drink, eclectic theatrical experiences throughout […]
Classic Theatre of Maryland kicks of 2023-24 season with a 1920s cabaret
Before their fully produced mainstage season launches in November with a signature Holiday Rep, featuring a double bill of the musical White Christmas and a homegrown adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Anne Arundel’s only resident regional producing theater brings audiences a swell and swanky musical appetizer. Their monthly cabaret series (now extended to Monday AND Tuesday […]
Joanie Schultz refines and revisits A DOLL’S HOUSE for Everyman
For anyone who’s been required to sit through a production of Henrik Ibsen’s now-iconic domestic drama, A Doll’s House, or maybe been assigned to read it for a class, and found it either cumbersomely lengthy or maybe a little unbalanced in its sympathies, well your time has come. Until September 28th, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is […]
Last chance for CODE SWITCH at Theatre Project
The Sisters Freehold world premiere production of Shakill Jamal’s hilarious, provocative new play The Code Switch enters its final weekend at Baltimore Theater Project–with performances Thursday July 27th through Sunday July 30th. More information and tickets are here or at the Theatre Project website. Jamal’s play, which he both wrote and directed, uses multiple theatrical devices […]
Switching it up with CODE SWITCH at Sisters Freehold
To switch, or not to switch? This is the question posed by playwright (and director) Shakill Jamal in his brand new play, The Code Switch, debuting with Baltimore’s intrepid Sisters Freehold theater company from July 15-30. Specifically, the play probes the question of codeswitching, whether out of necessity in navigating the fraught dynamics of a […]
Going Round with Kevin McAlister at Everyman Theatre
The much-loved, oft-performed musical revue And the World Goes Round, featuring treasured selections from the songbook of iconic musical theater duo Kander and Ebb (creators of such enduring treasures as Cabaret and Chicago), gets a fresh update and brand new take in a production now running at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. This latest version of a show […]
Jose Rivera’s SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Spooky Action Theater
Washington’s highly regarded Spooky Action Theater, long a leader in innovative and creative programming, features two debuts to close its 2022-23 season: one is the first production selected and helmed by the company’s new artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova; the other is the area premiere of a powerfully resonant play by one of the country’s leading […]
TOFANA takes the stage at Sisters Freehold in Baltimore
For someone as deliciously, enduringly notorious–even infamous–as Giulia Tofana, the legendary Renaissance poisoner, strangely little is actually known. For certain, at least. Plenty of speculation and mythology has accumulated over the centuries since her (probable) execution for helping her fellow Italian wives become happy, wealthy widows via the administration of a secret house-blend of undectable […]
