This December, the Olney Theatre Center is ushering in the holiday season with Paul Morella’s A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas. There's hardly a Christmas story better…
As the fall semester comes to a close, the theater department at CCBC Essex has taken a turn for the absurd. Julie Lewis directs the double feature of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and Young …
Spotlighters Theatre has gone south for the winter, spending the holidays in Texas with their production of A Tuna Christmas. Written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, and direct…
Three women, bound by blood and tradition. One community in dire straits. And a centuries old rite that can mend all ills. Kerrmoor, written by Susan McCully and directed by Eve Muson, takes…
This semester, CCBC Catonsville’s theatre department has taken on Lynn Nottage’s play, Intimate Apparel. Set in the New York City of 1905, the play tells the story of Esther, an …
In a season devoted to shows that play with fire, Fells Point Corner Theatre's second production, Betrayal by Harold Pinter, keeps the flames alive. Directed by Andrew J. Porter, Betrayal ex…
In their inaugural production, Murder at the Mansion Dessert Theatre has brought murder, mystery, and petit-fours to Kentlands Mansion in the form of Polter-heist. Polter-heist, written by T…
Femme fatales and fedoras, trench coats and torch songs, intrigue and suspense… such is the tagline for Happenstance Theater's Cabaret Noir, and it offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lie…
They say that art is the decoration of space, but music is the decoration of time. More than mere decoration, though, music captures time, preserves it, wrapping a lifetime of memories in th…
On a dark and stormy night, six weekend guests, three servants, and a stranger find themselves trapped in a dead man's country estate. And as the evening progresses, their numbers begin to d…
Washington National Opera  opens its 60th season with Georges Bizet's iconic verismo opera, Carmen, directed by E. Loren Meeker. Arguably the most popular work in the operatic re…
The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre kicks off their 54th season with the North American premiere of A Sensation Novel, a play in three “volumes” written by W. S. Gilbert. If t…
The facade of a blue house dominates the stage at Fells Point Corner Theatre. Sliding glass doors and a kitchen window look out onto a concrete patio, where a grill, fire pit, and a small ta…
The Colonial Players of Annapolis have opened their 67th season with Sherlock’s Last Case, a darkly-funny send-up of the famous sleuth, written by Charles Marowitz and directed by Beth…
“What is honor?” It’s what King Henry IV is fighting to uphold. It’s what Harry Percy, the Hotspur, is fighting to defend. It’s what Prince Henry is trying to g…
Michael Paulsen has news for his nearest and dearest; he’s getting married! Word of the impending nuptials is not being taken well, however. You see, Michael is only three months out f…
The Pretties, written by Ann Turiano, and directed by Lynn Morton, is a retelling of Aeschylus’ ancient trilogy, The Oresteia. The Oresteia tells the story of Orestes and his que…
Heritage Players is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and so is its newest production, Really Rosie, which is directed by Stuart C. Kazanow. Written by Maurice Sendak, with m…
“This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!” sings Matthew Ancarrow at the end of Act 1, as Antipholus of Syracuse finds himself confusingly entrenched in the…
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is the penultimate show of Spotlighters’ 53rd season and boy does it pack a punch. This unauthorized parody, written by Burt V. Royal, …
As the weather turns sultry, Baltimore theater goers with an appreciation for irony should make it a point not to miss 2nd Star Productions current show, Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winnin…
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. And, for the month of May, he’s alive and well at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, too. Â Jacques Brel is “a musical …
Anne Arundel Community College’s Spring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera opens at an auction within the dilapidated Paris Opera House, in the year …
Some of Broadway’s biggest hits have merged into one show and found their way to Baltimore, occupying our own South Broadway in Fells Point. Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue…
There’s a whole lot of hopping going on at Pumpkin Theatre this month. The Frog Prince is the penultimate show of Pumpkin Theatre’s 47th season. Written by Donald J. Leonard …