This month, Baltimore’s Asian Pasifika Arts Collective has partnered with another established theater company to co-produce a new work for the stage: a “book in hand” performance of new shor... Read more
The late Tim Kelly was a prolific playwright who caught the parody bug sometime in the late 1970s. His “The Butler Did It” was a silly, formulaic melodrama, in which every detective stereoty... Read more
Takoma Park–based Alex and Olmsted is a puppet theater company also specializing in film work. Two years ago they received a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation (their second) for developme... Read more
A doorman building in one of the fashionable artsy neighborhoods of lower Manhattan finds two couples getting together for an evening of drinking and vitriol. The hostess, a white artist, is... Read more
Seven years have passed since Tamir Rice. These years are producing a creative upheaval in the theater as playwrights raise defiant voices against broken systems and tragically wasted lives.... Read more
Noah Silas is a company member of Baltimore’s Rapid Lemon Productions, the resident theater company at Motor House in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District of Baltimore. Fo... Read more
Contemporary French playwright Yasmina Reza specializes in obnoxious characters who bicker over first-world problems. In both of her best-known works, “’Art’” and “God of Carnage,” sh... Read more
In 2013, an NSA subcontractor named Edward Snowden stole classified information and leaked it to members of the press. This play isn’t about him. …complex, satisfying theatrical experience…a... Read more
Not all history lessons are simple. Not all are easy to digest. Sometimes, one is confronted by a human story in which heroes and villains aren’t so readily tagged, where the message is ob... Read more
Friday morning in the cramped Southside Chicago apartment of the Younger family finds Ruth making breakfast. Walter Lee, her husband, is jockeying for time in the shared bathroom down the ha... Read more
