In 2015, the faces on screens big and small looked a little bit more like those in real life than they had in years past. Comic book characters who were people of color in print actually remained people of color through their transition from 2D to 3D. Falcon, for example, played by Anthony Mackie, appeared…
Baltimore Theatre Project’s The Holiday Special is a coupling of Jeffrey Solomon’s The Santa Closet and Charlie Bethel’s adaption of The Seven Poor Travellers. Both of these one-act, solo-performer shows are Christmas stories. The similarities between them pretty much stop there. While this sort of pairing could be jarring or nonsensical, these two plays compliment…
There was a festive atmosphere at Everyman Theatre last night. Irish music played as the audience arrived for the Baltimore/DC Metro premiere of Outside Mullingar. The music alone could lift your spirits; the songs of the tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhran were made for dancing and merry-making. But it was more than that. We were…
As we draw nearer to the opening of The Force Awakens, many fans are celebrating by going to movie marathons or having one for themselves and friends. Ever since the prequels came out, there has been a debate on the proper order on how to watch them. While some prefer to watch them in…
I have to admit I had extremely high expectations when I went to last night’s opening of Total Verruckt!, the one-woman show currently – briefly – playing at Baltimore Theatre Project. I always try to approach the performances I’m reviewing with as neutral a disposition as possible, but I interviewed this show’s creator and performer,…
Total Verruckt! presents the real-life story of members of the Camp Westerbork Theatre Group, an unlikely troupe that was formed at the Westerbork Transit Camp – a Nazi transport and detention center in the Occupied Netherlands during World War II. From 1942 to 1944, alongside thousands of other prisoners, some of the day’s most talented and…
Cohesion Theatre’s second season kicked off last night with the World Premiere Production of A Little Bit Not Normal, which is also the first play in the company’s Trans* Voices Workshop Series. Ambitious? Yeah. But you don’t get named Baltimore City Paper’s “Best New Theater 2015” for playing it safe. The entire stated mission of…
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s production of The Taming of the Shrew is a delightful romp of quick-witted dialog and rollicking physical comedy. With their commitment to presenting Shakespeare’s work with “the staging conditions, spirit, and atmosphere created by Shakespeare’s theatre company during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods,” BSF makes one of the great works of classical…
You know how you can think back to early days with your partner and recall certain moments so clearly as one of those things that “made you fall in love” with him or her? I remember when we had just started dating, my now-husband noted how his son – a youngster at the time –…
I tend to avoid posting stuff in my blog that isn’t all about me me me, but this is important. And it is about me in a small way. The thing that’s letting you read my post right now – the internet – is in need of protection. If we do not secure an open…
