Performing Arts Stories

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Two Much: The Mystery of Irma Vep delivers laughs, surprises, and reams of frilly dresses

Stage | 11/18/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Ladies and gentlemen, hurry, hurry, hurry: come see a fabulous, fantastical tale of love and death, fear and trembling, pride and prejudice, queen bees and wannabes, dumb and dumber, angels and demons...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

JUST DANCE Traditional Indian and modern dance comes to Theatre Project (45 W. Preston St., [410] 539-3091) Nov. 20-21 courtesy of Washington-based Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. This pe...[MORE]

Boys in the Hood: A gritty look at life in the drug game transfixes at Arena Players

Stage | 11/18/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

Actor Laurence Fishburne wrote Riff Raff, his first and, it appears, only play, in eight days while he was filming a movie. And--and this is really going to piss off struggling playwrights--it's a gre...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 11/11/2009 |

Karma Chameleon Euan Morton, the Scottish singer and actor who originated the role of Boy George in the West End production of Taboo, takes on CenterStage (700 N. Calvert St., [410] 332-0033, centers...[MORE]

Woman's Work: A play about housekeeping is too stylized to connect with audiences

Stage | 11/11/2009 | By Geoffrey Himes

Is Sarah Ruhl the next major voice in American theater? The 35-year-old playwright, an Illinois native now based in Manhattan, has already been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the subject of a New Yorker...[MORE]

Will-e Robo at the Baltimore Comedy factory Oct. 22

Arts and Minds | 11/3/2009 | By Nicholas Harsh

When Will-e Robo took the stage Oct. 22 at the Baltimore Comedy Factory, he had a lot working against him. The joint was less than half full and the audience was lethargic. To warm himself up, Robo dr...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 11/4/2009 |

Notes of Note American Opera Theater kicks off its season with a brand new show called Songspiel. The Baltimore-based touring opera company created the show, featuring songs by Kurt Weill, to show of...[MORE]

Hells Belles: An over the top Christmas show feels like too much, too soon

Stage | 11/4/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

It was jarring to hear Christmas carols on a Sunday afternoon in October. Even the woman handing out tickets at Vagabond seemed perplexed by it. "What are we listening to?" she asked of the holiday ...[MORE]

It's Alive...Almost: A revival of an unpopular play shows why it was unpopular

Stage | 11/4/2009 | By John Barry

The writer of The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal, currently running at the Spotlighters Theatre, isn't mentioned in the program. Intentionally or not, that tells you something about the play itself. It's t...[MORE]

Switching Roles: Everett Quinton imparts a ridiculous truth to Everyman Theatre's The Mystery of Irma Vep

Stage | 11/4/2009 | By Bret McCabe

"We had no idea how demanding it was gong to be," says Everett Quinton, recalling an opening night in a small Greenwich Village theater in the fall of 1984. "We had no idea if it was going to work. A...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 10/28/2009 |

Transylvania Twist DanceRink returns to Theatre Project (45 W. Preston St., [410] 539-3091, theatreproject.org) to perform its version of Dracula. Adapted from a 1938 radio-play starring Orson Welles,...[MORE]

Monster's Ball: Baltimore's newest theater company makes an energetic debut

Stage | 10/28/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

It's easy to forget that The Rocky Horror Show was a stage play before it was a picture show. Originally performed in London in 1973, the play was Richard O'Brien's homage to B-movies. Two years later...[MORE]

Wilde at Heart: The humor is in the little things in Oscar Wilde's romantic comedy

Stage | 10/28/2009 | By John Barry

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde writes that "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the important thing." With that in mind, Riccardo Hernandez's set for the CenterSta...[MORE]

An Intimate Venue: Simone Dinerstein at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup Oct. 23

Music | 10/27/2009 | By Bret Mccabe

Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein is so chill even after gorgeously playing two lively, emotive solo pieces the morning of Oct. 23 she exudes the penguin cool of somebody who just woke up. That's n...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 10/21/2009 |

Brand Aid In these tough economic times, people in the arts need any leg up they can get. So on Oct. 21, the Strand Theater (1823 N. Charles St., [443] 874-4917, strandtheatercompany.org) is hosting ...[MORE]

Toy Story: A Holocaust survivor uses puppets to heal in this arresting drama

Stage | 10/21/2009 | By Geoffrey Himes

From the start of The Puppetmaster of Lodz, it's obvious that something's wrong with Samuel Finkelbaum. He lives in the fourth-floor garret of a Berlin rooming house but refuses to open the door for a...[MORE]

One Myth Call: Eurydice brings joy to every man in her life—until she doesn't

Stage | 10/14/2009 | By Bret McCabe

With its stripes of rain falling in an elevator, a chorus of talking stones, a shower of ping-pong balls that coat the stage, a juvenile lord of the underworld, and small pool of water directly at the...[MORE]

Surreal Genius: Drama and farce come together in an enthralling work

Stage | 10/14/2009 | By Anna Ditkoff

There’s absolutely no way Hysteria can work. It’s part broad farce, part serious drama. It wants you to take a lisping Salvador Dali seriously and giggle at Sigmund Freud’s slapstick antics. There’s j...[MORE]

Going Up: Tim Scofield and Mara Neimanis turn their love of flight into Baltimore's first ever aerial festival

Stage | 10/7/2009 | By Bret McCabe

For some people, the laws of gravity were made to be broken. "We have an airline recoiling spool at work," says local kinetic sculpture artist Tim Scofield, who uses his mechanics' hands to describe ...[MORE]

Curtain Time

Curtain Time | 9/30/2009 |

WELCOME HOME The Annex Theatre returns from its recent Beowulf tour--which took the DIY company down to Gainesville, Fla., out to Minneapolis, Minn., and over to Northampton, Mass.--and stages its tra...[MORE]