When one thinks of Christmas and the holidays, traditionally joyous thoughts of family get-togethers, presents, lovely dinners, and a festive electricity come to mind. "Traditionally" being …
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "I refuse to accept the view mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood ca…
The COVID nightmare drags on and it feels like forever since anyone has been able to watch a live theatre performance. In desperation, I suppose a Zoom play seems better than no play. At lea…
The human experience presents many obstacles"seemingly at random. Deepak Chopra once said, "Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true de…
Julie Klausner said, "Cabaret is a great format"all you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically." And in the heart of Little Italy in Baltimore, a picturesque establishment with an upst…
Ballet Chesapeake's 2019 performance of "The Nutcracker" is an annual holiday favorite that is a must-see for audiences of all ages. Of course, it is a challenge for any ballet production to…
"Who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream, separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream? The Candy Man can." "Willy Wonka The Musical" presented by Charm City Players is Roald Dahl's cla…
Jimmy Buffett has a great line in his song "Barometer" that says "Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see." In many ways, this was my sense of the compilation of short plays in t…
It has been written, "As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflected the real person." In the story presented in "Queens Girl in Africa," playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings retells…
There is funny ha-ha, clever funny, and situationally funny. Though many of the things we find hilarious in our lives generally fall into one of these categories, it is certainly quite the b…
In post-war England, in the town of Chipping Cleghorn, a most precarious stage has been set in a quiet country house where a murder is plotted and advertised in the local paper. What seems l…
There were several brilliant gems in last weekend's "Symphonic Pops" performed by the Columbia Orchestra. A trifecta of enormously talented performers stemming from the Peabody Conservatory …
The storyline for this beloved musical seemed a little over the heads of the 12 and under crowd that amounted to nearly half the audience for the hit show "Mamma Mia!" presented by Charm Cit…
The story has some familiar facets: a man cursed for sins of the past, doomed to remain in the purgatory of earthly surroundings until he redeems himself. Such is the undercurrent cadence of…
Since the emergence of antidepressants, pharmaceutical companies have been tripping over themselves to get as many people on them as possible. Perhaps getting their share of the tens of bill…
As Brené Brown puts it, "Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging." Shame and forgiveness are centr…
Two friends since childhood, Charlotte and Jonny (played by Amandine Thomas and Quincy Vicks), discover a great deal about themselves and their primal (as well as carnal) needs in Bathsheba …
Caption: “There are some qualities "some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type of that twin entity that springs from matter and light, evinced in soli…
Wondrously choreographed and directed by Dianna Cuatto, Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of "The Nutcracker" is spirited after the original, including the classic composition by Tchai…
The witty, classic satire "The Importance of Being Earnest" takes jabs at the pretentious Victorian era on an alluring stage at Everyman Theatre. Their impressive production, under the direc…
The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall is generally a place where magnificence and magic fuse in musical symmetry. With violin soloist, chamber musician, and Grammy award-winning recording artis…
It's the holiday season and that means Christmas themed stories galore. Such as the classic retelling of Jean Shephard's "A Christmas Story," which found much cultural fanfare from the 1983 …
The seemingly random but hilarious zig zag story in the “King of the Yees,” directed by Desdemona Chiang at Baltimore Center Stage, ascends from reflections of playwright Lauren …
After watching "Sweat," it's not surprising Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for this brilliantly stirring drama. This story flips back and forth between the years 2000 and 2008 i…
A Broadway musical on so many actors' bucket list, “Cabaret,” presented by Vagabond Players in Fells Point, Baltimore. It is as quaint as it is racy "like so many renditions o…