One of the gifts of Carroll’s Wonderland is that its world of illogical situations and creatures both provides the structure of a narrative while allowing plenty of space to imagine and interpret the absurdity in whatever way one may choose.
UpClose: Patti Kalil, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Pointless Theatre’s production of Gimme a Band! Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre.
UpClose: Mel Bieler, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Gimme a Band! Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre, produced by Pointless Theatre.
UpClose: Tammy Turner, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Tammy Turner will be performing her new play Glass Rainbows: Colored Pieces of a Mended Heart beginning October 9, 2015, produced by Baltimore Theatre Project.
When She Had Wings (review). Yours are waiting at Imagination Stage
There’s a not-so-secret code in Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) productions. Whether you’re a parent/guardian or just someone interested in theater, you might read the synopsis of a TYA production on a snazzy postcard or a painstakingly-crafted advertisement with the intention of maybe checking out the show, but you probably won’t decide to go until […]
Playwright takes the spotlight in No Spring Chicken at NextStop (review)
“Forty is old to have a baby.” Those words rang in the ears and down to the depths of Ginna Hoben’s soul as a skinny, way too young nurse pronounced her sentence over the actress desperately trying to conceive a child.
UpClose: Allison and Margaret Engel, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, the new play from Allison and Margaret Engel, opens October 9, 2015 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater.
UpClose: Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Playwright Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay’s new play, For the Love of Oscar, debuts October 28, 2015, produced by The New Millennium Howard Players.
Monique LaForce, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Monique LaForce’s new play Hootenanny opens October 2, 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
At Folger, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR (review)
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, created and directed by Karin Coonrod, draws on the letters, prayers, and speeches of the queen who reigned in Shakespeare’s time. A fitting choice for the Folger Theatre, whose library of resources provided much of the source material for the play. The production was developed with Compagnia de’ Colombari, an international collective dedicated to […]
Phoebe in Winter at Single Carrot (review)
Power. Chaos. Family Loss. Race. War. Colonialism. Gender. These are themes playwright Jen Silverman has packed into her dense and powerful work, Phoebe in Winter. There is something both muscular and very poetic about the terse language and situations that constantly shift the “truth.” You have to be willing to wade in deeply with her […]
Princess Margaret at Thelma Theatre (review)
Princess Margaret, by Patricia Connelly, is an emotionally charged journey into the life of a poor young girl in the late 1960s. Eleven-year-old Margaret (Allison Frisch) is caught stealing milk from a small Catholic parochial school in Upstate New York in 1969. Instead of calling the police, the kindly nun Sister Anastasia (Elizabeth Bruce) suggests […]