Max Garner is a Baltimore writer whose two person play Sphere: The Thelonius Monk Story, directed by Rosalind Cauthen, will be at Woolly Mammoth Theatre this weekend as part of the DC Black Theatre Festival. [Read more...]
Foot of Water, conceived and performed by Single Carrot
June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Single Carrot Theater’s Foot of Water opens with this thought, spoken by the narrator (Jessica Garrett): “Love is like a balloon….When you are inside the balloon, love is completely natural, it’s what’s supposed to happen.” And when you’re outside, things get strange. That’s all you really need to understand this alternately weird and highly affecting production.
Michael Stebbins, juggling Rep Stage
June 8, 2012 By 3 Comments
I first saw Michael Stebbins, Artistic Director of Rep Stage, in 2005 juggling several phone lines and over a dozen roles in the solo show Fully Committed. Juggling seems to be what Stebbins is all about. He’s managed to take lead roles, direct plays, nurture a subscription base, and balance budgets for a small professional theatre in Columbia Maryland. Since he took over in 2005, Rep Stage has used its location – on the Howard Community College Campus – to build up an audience from both DC and Baltimore. [Read more...]
Baltimore auditions for A Behanding in Spokane
June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fells Point Corner Theatre announces auditions for A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE By Martin McDonagh
Synopsis- In Martin McDonagh’s first American-set play, we are introduced to four quirky characters whose lives intersect in a seedy hotel room in small town America. Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for a quarter of a century. Enter two bickering, drug-dealing lovebirds with a hand to sell, plus a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we’re set for a hilarious and profane roller coaster of love, hate, desperation and hope. [Read more...]
Naoko Maeshiba, dancing on the edge of theatre
May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dancer/Choreographer/Director Naoko Maeshiba, at least to me, was one of Baltimore’s hidden artistic treasures until I had the chance to see in 2009. Her journey began in Japan, where she was born and trained, before she headed to Hawaii, DC, and, ultimately, Charm City, where she is now in the Department of Theatre Arts at Towson University. [Read more...]
Three zombie Sisters at Bell Foundry in Baltimore this weekend
May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The ACME theatre, which I’ve done a brief piece on, will be going up with a new version of the Three Sisters this weekend. But don’t expect mustached colonels in late 19th century Russian military attire. [Read more...]
Chesapeake Shakespeare expands to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
May 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
On May 7th, the Baltimore theatre world received some good news: the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, currently located in Howard County, announced its purchase of the downtown Mercantile Safe Depost and Trust Building, a classically designed brownstone built in 1885. What was born as a bank, and transfomed as an afterhours spot for Baltimore party people, is now going to be a 250-300 seat theatre with three levels of seating. The theatre is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014. [Read more...]
The many faces of Baltimore actor Bruce R. Nelson
May 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
If you’ve watched professional theatre in Baltimore, you’ve probably seen Bruce R. Nelson. But it may have taken you a little while to realize it. When I walked into the Boehmian Café in Baltimore’s Northern Arts district, I thought I’d missed him. But he was there, in the shadows, complete with a graying beard, which he’d grown for his upcoming role as Kohlenkov, the eccentric Russian in Everyman’s upcoming Kaufman and Hart comedy, You Can’t Take it With You.
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[Read more...]Kaddish, based on a Nobel winning novel, makes its world premiere in a tiny Baltimore space
April 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
Director Barbara Lanciers was ready to premiere Kaddish, her version of Imre Kertesz’s novel “Kaddish for an Unborn Child” at the Baltimore Theatre Project. It’s a production she’s been waiting almost a decade to bring to the stage. And for herself and actor Jacob Goodman, it’s been a labor of love. There was only one thing missing: the Hungarian Nobel Prize Laureate hadn’t given her permission to stage his text. [Read more...]
Eve Muson on directing Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas
April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How director/professor Eve Muson took a Nottage play
from a college production to the professional stage
I remember, somewhere at the tail end of the Regional II version of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2010, being led into the Towson University Theatre Center one more time. I’d already seen more plays in one weekend than I usually see in two months, and, frankly, the weekend was shaping itself into a chaotic mélange of diamonds in the rough. [Read more...]
