Bethesda’s Round House Theatre has elected to cancel the 2020 portion of its live theater schedule, the company announced on Tuesday. “Governor Hogan’s Roadmap to Recovery outlines a phased process for reopening Maryland. As Round House falls into the final phase of that plan, it has become increasingly clear that we will be unable to […]
Thank You, Dad review. A searing solo performance about Jim Jones and blind faith
Furloughed? Sick of snow? Cheer up. You could be a member of the People’s Temple. The Reverend Jim Jones (Lance Bankerd) and his tragically devoted followers are back from the jungles of Guyana and as ghoulishly riveting as ever in Rapid Lemon’s world premiere production of Thank You, Dad, a three-act, documentary style play about […]
Review: D. W. Gregory’s Dirty Pictures at Baltimore Theatre Project
Racy photographs stoke the mayhem and comedy of local playwright D.W. Gregory’s world premiere play, Dirty Pictures, but its true catalyst lies in finding beauty in the ordinary and overlooked.
Review: Palindrome: Sphere and Pentz at Baltimore Theatre Project
Two musicians, two stories: “Palindrome,” Rapid Lemon’s latest piece, is actually two one-acts, linked by themes of music and madness. Both pieces take their titles from the middle names of the main characters: Sphere follows Thelonious Sphere Monk as he examines his life in a fictional therapist’s office; Pentz visits Marvin Pentz Gaye both before […]
Four looks at love: Love Is a Blue Tick Hound (review)
Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Love Is A Blue Tick Hound gives us not one play but four by local playwright Audrey Cefaly. These mini one-acts are but a half hour long each, yet so skillfully written that the depths of each character shines through. The playlets transverse a theme, though they don’t […]