Spanish Telenovelas beam with explosive family drama, confessions and discoveries of past indiscretions. Watching “Stick Fly” at Fells Point Corner Theatre in Baltimore piqued my…
With Halloween encroaching, it is quite fitting that “The Addams Family” hits the Silhouette Stages at the Slayton House Theatre in Columbia, Maryland, right on cue for the seaso…
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said the characters in the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” "[show] us the difficulty of communication between people who spend their lives saying …
Spotlighters Theatre in Baltimore kicked off its 57th season with Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy, "Lysistrata." Directors Michael Blum and Darlene Harris give this production a relativel…
Voltaire once wrote, "We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth." Playwright Lauren Gunderson has done exactly this with a fascinating trip through time an…
In 2017, a writer on “Odyssey” named Julia Cooper wrote a short article titled "Satire Isn't An Excuse for Bad Writing." It may have been obscure and likely touched a few raw ner…
In Ballybeg, a fictitious town in Ireland, in late summer of 1936, a memory flowing with the interconnected stories of five sisters unfolds that concedes a bittersweet picture of inevitable …
Long, curly blond hair may be a thing of the past for Michael Bolton, but his husky, unmistakable voice, which elevated him to international stardom, is still as unique and hypnotic as ever.…
In modern times, as in any, the legality of a binding contract can be both a benefit and detriment. In the play "Consent," featured now until August 26, 2018, at the Spotlighters Theatre in …
As far as Shakespearean plays go, “King John” (directed by Tom Delise) is not only rare, it is virtually unknown, even for people who love Shakespeare. One might expect a theatre…
Who can resist a live rendition of one of Disney's most enchanting love stories ever? Certainly no man, woman or child. The Way Off Broadway production of "Beauty and the Beast" is now playi…
The Heritage Players' musical production of Roald Dahl's “James and the Giant Peach,” directed by Elizabeth Tane Kanner, is a tale of an accidental adventure involving an orphan,…