Jamie Brickhouse is a memorable mimic. His enthralling solo show, I Favor My Daddy, doesn’t feel solo because of how vividly he inhabits his characters. We meet his parents, Mama Jean and Daddy Poo, his brothers, his father’s former girlfriends, and a Neiman Marcus customer service rep. Even with his humor and performance skills on […]

In Let’s Fight and Say We Didn’t, we witness a family at the breaking point. This student-run production from Anne Arundel Community College tackles mental health, child abuse, and the legacy of trauma. Amber (Amanda Lynn Matousek) would never visit her father Everett (Jack Stone) unless she had to. She left for college as soon […]

There are lots of ways to be stuck in life and many of them are explored in Stuck, an engaging two-hander written by Joy Cheriel Brown. Nickie, the winning MoNieshia Hunt, is an ambitious teen with big plans. Noah Williams plays Sequan, Nickie’s neighbor and classmate, with just the right mix of bravado and sensitivity. Home […]

Oh wow,” an audience member said as she stepped into the theater for Heartbeats & Algorithms. The world created by the light and the sound was palpable. The physical sensations continued as a torrent of social alerts and computer chimes hurled us into the opening of Jenny Lee’s captivating one-woman show. Lee, playwright and performer, […]

I am sure there are many lessons in The Mahabharata, an Indian epic which includes the story on which “Draupadi’s Arranged Marriage” is based, but “be careful what you wish for” must be one of them. Draupadi is a princess who prays for the perfect man. She loves Karna, the boy next door, but he […]

If you’re too young or unfortunate enough never to have seen the Carol Burnett Show, my telling you that Hold the Tomato reminded me of it won’t be very helpful. If you do know the TV variety show from the 70s you’ll recognize its goofy, friends-making-friends laugh nature in this production featuring Laugh Index Theatre’s Hot […]

Has our obsession with true crime always been with us? In 1551, Alice Arden and her lover arranged the murder of Alice’s husband, Lord Arden of Faversham. In 1592 this true crime sensation was portrayed in a play, Arden of Faversham (believed to have been written by multiple authors including, some argue, Shakespeare). “Arden of […]