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It is a measure of the Obama Administration’s successful wind-down of the war in Iraq that Dear Sara Jane, Victor Lodato’s complex meditation on the uses of violence now being given a careful and intelligent production by the Hub Theatre, [Read more...]
Quest: Arts for Everyone, a Maryland-based organization “committed to using the arts to…enable individuals who have been marginalized to realize their full potential” will collaborate with The Theater Project and Creative Alliance of Baltimore and Washington’s Gallaudet University to stage QuestFest 2010, a two-week festival of primarily non-verbal theater, in the two cities. The festival will run from March 1 until the 14th. [Read more...]
Matthew R. Wilson is a breath of fresh air, a Miracle Man, a robust Harlequin with many faces. From the moment Wilson somersaults on stage and stares at us in terror and runs for the nearest EXIT, he throws us off-guard. A master of many masks, he’s an acrobat full of surprises, [Read more...]
QuestFest 2010, an international visual theatre festival produced by Quest in partnership with Gallaudet University in Washington and the Theatre Project and Creative Alliance in Baltimore, returns to the Baltimore/Washington area March 1-14, 2010, with a two-week long festival of performances and workshops featuring an international roster of deaf and hearing artists. 
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Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960′s Baltimore where the 50′s are out and change is in the air. Lovable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show. Over night she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess (without mussing her hair of course!)? [Read more...]
The Charles Dickens classic tale of a waif in 19th century England comes alive brilliantly in this wondrous musical. Fleeing a life of workhouse servitude, Oliver arrives in London to seek his fortune, discovers the Crime School for Boys and a gallery of unforgettable low-lifes. [Read more...]
Oh, those English boarding school girls—they are such scamps, hazing a hapless 13-year-old student (Angela Welchbrodt) in an S&M ritual that involves a torture hood, restraints and a too-liberal dose of Mummy’s Valium, and in their off-hours tramping around and boozing it up with their peers. [Read more...]
This classic romantic comedy seems to have withstood the test of time. Many remember Marilyn Monroe, as Cherie, in the 1956 film. The story still warms the audience like stepping inside from the cold of the Midwestern blizzard that provides the background for the play. [Read more...]
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