42 stories by "John Barry"
In Baltimore, theatre fans tend to look to Towson University's Department of Theatre for up-and-coming actors and directors. And opera aficionados look toward Peabody Chamber Opera for talen…
Though Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara, is set in Leenane, Ireland, it's hard not to think of a front yard in Hampden during Halloween. In Todd Rosenthal's set for CenterStage, the…
Preston Street in Baltimore was packed with cars. That was thanks to Itzhak Perlman, an out-of-town violin player who had decided to drop by the Baltimore Symphony and play Vivaldi's ‘…
I started writing this article as a retrospective of Baltimore theatre in 2011. But I couldn't help thinking a little bit about what Baltimore is looking at in 2012. In Baltimore, thanks to …
Nathan Cooper, the artistic director and actor for Baltimore's Single Carrot Theatre, recently returned from the Festival for Independent Performing Arts in Sofia, where he spent four days w…
After watching the Gate Theatre production of Krapp’s Last Tape, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s a play that John Hurt has been waiting for decades to act in.Â…
CenterStage's American Buffalo hits its high point when Teach (Jordan Lage), a bald guy with a mustache who sports a leisure jacket and bellbottom highwaters, pulls out a shiny silver gun an…
The City of Baltimore has recently found itself under the harsh gaze of the Russia Today: in a 500 word piece, shaped by an hour or so of immersion in Baltimore's one-block red zone, and man…
It Ain't Easy Being a Founder, Director, Treasurer, Official Greeter, Artistic Director, and Ticket Seller for a Small Startup Theater in the Middle of Baltimore in the Middle of a Recession…
“when opening night comes … it's like the play's going out the door to go to college, and I'm giving it one more apple and one more kiss." Â When I finally reached DC playwrigh…
"We do Bar Mitzvahs." In the benefit production Portrait of Poe, that's about as close to optimism as Edgar Allan Poe, gets on October 8, 2011, at Area 405. And the show hasn't even begun. H…
In an era where 'sour' seems to say it all, there’s one thing to like about South Pacific at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre even before seeing it. This 1949 musical about American Seab…
I came to DC’s Studio Theatre  to talk to Duncan Macmillan about his latest play, Lungs, which will be making the first part of its rolling world premier at Studio on October 2nd (i…
This column is about Baltimore theater, and, admittedly, the connection between Studio Six (in New York City) and Baltimore is a little tenuous. The artistic director, Vaz Santosham has root…
Baltimore inspired him, and now he intends to return the favor. “Cool. Savvy.” That branding for the 2011-2012 season dangles outside the CenterStage theater on Calvert Street in…
“I’m all about wild stuff”, he says, and shows he really means it with the baby-in-the-microwave play Bump! In the underworld of Baltimore's theatre, success comes, but it …
DCTS welcomes Baltimore columnist John Barry In the dark, sweaty, jam-packed basement of the Bell Foundry Building " located in a neighborhood off Baltimore’s Penn Station "Â Un Sadd…
