10. Macbeth Not a stage production per se but a movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy directed by Justin Kurzel whose extraordinary clarity of vision brings this tale of cruelty and revenge to savage life. Intensely atmospheric, the film is almost entirely shot in the Scottish countryside—full of mist and fog and fen—and shows us […]
Outside Mullingar at Everyman Theatre (review)
Feeling droopy, as if you need to dip your candy canes in Prozac? Copious cheer (of the non-holiday variety) greets you at Everyman Theatre via the lovely, loving production of Outside Mullingar, which has the power to revive wilting spirits and restore your faith in romance and, what the heck, even mankind.
Fences scores a hit at Everyman Theatre (review)
Sometimes you just get in your own way. Dragging my heels on Fences at Everyman due to a horrible cold and my dogged belief it is not my favorite August Wilson play—Pulitzer Prize and love for the playwright notwithstanding. Turns out, it’s not the play. I had never seen a production of Fences that did […]
Stage Briefs: NYT praise, free theatre, new company, gender twists and Deathtrap cast
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Everyman Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare, Interrobang Theatre, Strand Theatre, L’Enfant Rebelle, Brave Spirits and NextStop Theatre. We’re more than half way through the Women’s Voices Festival (the last play opens October 31st), and it’s abundantly clear that congratulations are in […]
Everyman’s An Inspector Calls rings for thee
There’s a fall-ish chill in the air and a delectable thrill inside Everyman Theatre, where they are opening their 25th season with a slam-bang, conscience-prickling production of that old chestnut An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley, written in 1945 but set in pre-WWI England.
Blithe Spirit at Everyman, a balm for Baltimore’s soul (review)
Sign of a good time had by all? Patrons of Everyman Theatre’s Blithe Spirit in the parking garage elevator making plans to return for another performance. Grandchildren, reluctant spouses, Nöel Coward devotees, pretty much anyone who admires wit and style will bask in the Prosecco-light, bubbly glow of this production, directed with 1920s elan by […]
Center Stage gives free Bob Marley concert Saturday to help heal Baltimore
While the nation watched, the streets of Baltimore erupted in violence Monday night, April 20th, in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. As the week unfolded and the city became locked down around them, we asked what the impact of these unprecedented events was having on the cast working on a […]
Deathtrap at Everyman puts the ho-ho-ho in homicide
Holly’s poisonous, faulty lights can electrocute you, Christmas trees are firetraps, and watch out for salmonella lurking in that egg nog. The holidays can be murder.
Henry Strozier remembers Tana Hicken. Tribute is Monday Sept 29 at Studio Theatre
“She was fun to be onstage with. She was always there, and giving and generous.” I was talking to the actor Henry Strozier, long-time member of the Arena Stage acting company, about his friend and colleague Tana Hicken. They acted in dozens of plays together over the years at Arena. When news came last month […]
The Understudy at Everyman Theatre
Metamorphosis meets The Actor’s Nightmare in Theresa Rebeck’s boisterous and mind-bending comedy The Understudy, a satisfying season-opener at Everyman Theatre directed with absurdist elation by Joseph W. Ritsch.
Tribes at Everyman
Normally, a feeling of weariness accompanies seeing two productions of the same play so close together. Wasn’t it just yesterday that Studio Theatre in Washington did Tribes, British playwright Nina Raine’s play about a young deaf man’s struggle to be heard, accepted and listened to?