Baltimore Theater Reviews

BWW Reviews: It's A Good Play CHARLIE BROWN

Will Charlie Brown ever win a baseball game or the love of a certain red-haired girl? Will Linus let go fo his blanket or Sally find her philosophy? Will Lucy become queen and Schroeder the next Beethoven? Will suppertime ever come soon enough for Snoopy? (more...)

BWW Reviews: MEMPHIS at the Kennedy Center is mmmmmmmmm Marvelous!

See the four-time Tony Award winner and you won't miss a beat. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Mobtown Players' BENT is an Act of Defiance

To be gay was to be a criminal in Nazi Germany. Martin Sherman's play, 'BENT,' takes on the issue of homosexuality under Hitler's rule in this 2-act, 2+ hour production now at Baltimore's Mobtown Players theater. (more...)

BWW Reviews: MUSIC MAN at Arena Stage - A Melodious Masterpiece

This is a Music Man not to be missed. It's filled with great music, superb acting, lovely voices, and superb dancing. (more...)

BWW Reviews: WELL at The Strand Plays with Humor and Grace

"This play is not about my mother and me," says Lisa Kron at the beginning of her autobiographical play, WELL . Of course,WELL is all about the playwright and her long-suffering mother. It's a funny and sad examination of the intensely complicated relationship of mothers and daughters where love and hostility co-exist as the past clashes with the present. (more...)

BWW Reviews: THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Oh what a circus, oh what a show...THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS extended to July 8 by popular demand. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Minding 'THE GAP' at Glass Mind Theatre

Glass Mind Theatre's third-annual short-play festival pairs playwrights with play settings submitted by audience members. (more...)

BWW Reviews: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU at Everyman Theatre - A Hit in Every Way

You can take it to the bank though, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU is a hit! (more...)

BWW Reviews: Iron Crow's THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM Sweetly Examines Modern Reality

A typographer, a geographer and a stenographer sit down at a bar. There's no punch line to be found in Iron Crow Theatre Co.'s production of Adam Bock's The Typographer's Dream, but rather an unveiling of personalities and of how so often what we do is inseparable from who we are. (more...)

BWW Reviews: XANADU at the Signature Theatre is Just Plain Delicious

XANADU will bring you ninety minutes of non-stop fun and enjoyment. (more...)

BWW Reviews: E. Faye Butler in Concert at Center Stage

Baltimore welcomes E. Faye Butler in her all-new act, 'What a Difference a Diva Makes'. (more...)

BWW Reviews: THE WHIPPING MAN at Center Stage

'Let My People Go' given a new meaning in this terrific production (more...)

BWW Reviews: LAS MENINAS at Columbia's Rep Stage

Complex play by Lynn Nottage Deserves Your Attention (more...)

BWW Reviews: Get Up Close and Personal with DOLLY at Spotlighters Theatre

There's nothing more personal than theater in the round, especially when it's on such an intimate scale as that at Spotlighters Theatre where there's a maximum of three rows of seating on each side. And it seems a fitting way to get to know Dolly Gallagher Levi, star of Hello, Dolly!, since her greatest joy is getting to know you-in the hopes of making a little money off of what she's figured out. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Welcome Back to the 60s: HAIRSPRAY at Toby's Baltimore

The portrayal of Edna by Lawrence B. Munsey is outstanding; more than any other Edna I've seen, Munsey brings out the femininity and vulnerability of the character without sacrificing her drag queen strut at appropriate moments. (more...)

BWW Recaps: DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Surprise guest, lyricist Alain Boublil appears on stage at Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to the delight of an SRO crowd (more...)

BWW Reviews: Retooling Makes Rep Stage's LAS MENINAS Strong and Tragic

I was intrigued as soon as I heard that Director Eve Muson was bringing the show to a professional company. My sense was that Muson felt she could build a better product on the same platform of stars, costume and set. She was right. The end product is a modern historical tragedy that obviously speaks directly to contemporary racial and gender issues but also past them to the human condition, as all great tragedy does. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Shakespeare Theatre Company's STRANGE INTERLUDE is Reduced but Riveting

See why Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play was banned in Boston. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Iron Crow Theatre’s THE SOLDIER DREAMS Wages War on Death Through Joy and Dancing

In his notes about the play, director Steven J. Satta-Fleming writes that The Soldier Dreams "is no more a play about AIDS than The Wizard of Oz is the story of a cyclone," and it's interesting how AIDS and homosexuality, while important catalysts, are both omnipresent and barely there in this beautiful, sad, hilarious, heartwarming offering that Iron Crow Theatre doesn't just produce but conquers. (more...)

BWW Reviews: INTO THE WOODS at Centerstage

If you're in the mood for entertainment both magical and meaningful, step Into the Woods with Centerstage. The play, co-produced with the Westport Country Playhouse and directed by Mark Lamos, is beautifully staged as it trips lightly through a mix of classic stories before turning down a different and darker path. (more...)

BWW Reviews: INTO THE WOODS at Center Stage is a Triumph

Another Sondheim musical at Center Stage is a huge success (more...)

BWW Reviews: THE BROTHERS SIZE at the Everyman Theatre - Altogether Refreshing

If you like experimental theater, you may enjoy 'The Brothers Size'. (more...)

BWW Reviews: BROTHER RUSSIA at the Signature is a Hoot

Signature Theatre once again mounts a World Premiere musical with success. You'll have a rockin' good time. (more...)

BWW Reviews: 1776 at the Ford's Theatre in DC is Just Plain Revolutionary

Ford's Theatre has themselves another hit with '1776'. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Sometimes The Path Strays From You: INTO THE WOODS at Center Stage

The folklore passed on from parents to children under the deceptively superficial name of fairy tales is profound. The kitchen drudge who yearns to become a princess, the little girl vanquishing a wolf encountered on the way to grandmother's house, the simpleton who sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, and their kindred, are archetypes of each of us, at various moments in the trajectories of our lives. (more...)