42 stories by "John Barry"
Experimental theater has a reputation for being unfriendly, if not downright hostile, toward the audience, but Baltimore's Lola Pierson has been trying to turn that characterization on its h…
Things in Russia have changed so much during the five years Yury Urnov has spent in Baltimore that he jokes it feels more like 350 years. When he first arrived in 2009, he worked with the Ce…
P.O. Box Unabomber
by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova
Through Aug. 4 at Single Carrot theatre
Ted Kaczynski is back this week with Single Carrot's P.O. Box Unabomber. In his 199…
A House, a Home
Adapted from Chekhov's Three Sisters by Ben Hoover
Through April 14 at the EMP Collective
At Glass Mind Theatre's A House, A Home"based on Anton Chekhov's Three Si…
On Sunday afternoon, the capacity crowd at Theatre Project snakes out into the front hall and is chatting with members of the cast of Double Edge Theatre, which has just finished its final w…
Over the summer, Annex Theater artistic director Evan Moritz was in the Fifth Dimension"known more colloquially as the fifth floor"of the H and H Building, downtown, talking with some friend…
Richard III
Written By William Shakespeare, Directed by Ian Gallanar
At PFI Historic Park through Oct. 28
One thing you'll learn from the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's version of R…
There are two types of bands: those that constantly record and play gigs, and those that go into brief hibernations as they try to take themselves to a new level. Those hibernations result i…
Max Garner is a Baltimore writer whose two person play  Sphere: The Thelonius Monk Story, directed by Rosalind Cauthen, will be at Woolly Mammoth Theatre this weekend as part of the DC Bl…
Single Carrot Theater’s Foot of Water opens with this thought, spoken by the narrator (Jessica Garrett): “Love is like a balloon….When you are inside the balloon, love is c…
White Noise, performed by Wanderlust Theatre at the Fridge this weekend, is a play that's impossible to separate from the exhibit of paintings by DC artist Tom Block. So I'll begin by descri…
I first saw Michael Stebbins, Artistic Director of Rep Stage, in 2005 juggling several phone lines and over a dozen roles in the solo show  Fully Committed.  Juggling seems to be wh…
Dancer/Choreographer/Director Naoko Maeshiba, at least to me, was one of Baltimore's hidden artistic treasures until I had the chance to see  in 2009. Her journey began in Japan, where sh…
The ACME theatre, which I've done a brief piece on, will be going up with a new version of the Three Sisters this weekend. But don't expect mustached colonels in late 19th century Russian mi…
On May 7th, the Baltimore theatre world received some good news: Â the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, currently located in Howard County, announced its purchase of the downtown Mercantile…
If you've watched professional theatre in Baltimore, you've probably seen Bruce R. Nelson. But it may have taken you a little while to realize it. When I walked into the Boehmian Café in Ba…
Director Barbara Lanciers was ready to premiere Kaddish, her version of Imre Kertesz's novel “Kaddish for an Unborn Child” at the Baltimore Theatre Project. It's a producti…
How director/professor Eve Muson took a Nottage play from a college production to the professional stage I remember, somewhere at the tail end of the Regional II version of the Kennedy Cente…
I met Kelli Wright outside the Strand Theatre the day before the premier of Blood-bound and Tongue-tied. She had the lead role, Jocasta, a woman with a literal Oedipus Complex. But she had a…
Center Stage announced its upcoming 50th season on Friday, March 30th at Case[werks], a gallery across from Baltimore’s Penn Station. Kwame Kwei-Armah (Photo: courtesy of Center Sta…
As Hungarian theatre artists are under siege, a leading critic speaks out A week ago, Andrea Tompa, President of the Hungarian Theatre Critics Association, came to Baltimore's Center Stage t…
The Katona Jozsef Theatre‘s production of Gypsies isn’t to be confused with Gypsy, the 70′s Broadway hit, but there may have been a few people in the audience expecting a r…
Arena Players has been a Baltimore landmark for decades. Since its founding in 1952, it's the oldest continuously running black theatre in the country. For decades, the Players served as a l…
"There are sixty nine hundred languages in the world," according to the linguist George, the central of Julia Cho's The Language Archive." Half of them are doomed to disappear in the next ce…
Two interesting shows are coming up this weekend, that I'd just put out on alert in Baltimore. They're both mind and genre-bending. And they're free. First at Maryland Institute College of A…
