With stars overhead and faint sounds from picturesque Ellicott City, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) brings a homey atmosphere to their movable Macbeth, performed amongst the renovated ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute. The former girls’ boarding school has been home to CSC for 17 years, but it wasn’t until 2008 that the company did their […]
Archives for June 12, 2019
Review: A Doll’s House, Part 2. Funny, sharp and smart
The door slam heard around the world. Has there ever been a more memorable exit than Nora Helmer banging the door closed on her life, marriage and children in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House–other than perhaps the odd stage direction in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale: “Exeunt, pursued by bear.” Nora’s action shook audiences in 19th […]
Theater Alliance’s next season: dramas and new Psalmeyene 24 hip hop musical
Theater Alliance’s first season under the helm of Producing Artistic Director Raymond O. Caldwell will take a hard look at the experience of being Black in America in its three-play 2019-2020 season. The Theater Alliance season will kick off with Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 play Day of Absence. In a sleepy Southern town, White residents […]
Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance fails to connect art worlds
The title Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance comes from a painter’s refrain to a film director that the subject of your art doesn’t matter, only that you make it. To this end, the audience of the work is irrelevant, so long as the work satisfies the creator. Gwen & Ida starts […]
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