I admit it. Whenever I head into dark Baltimore warehouses for vaudeville-era musicals, I put on my night vision goggles and start looking for the glow in the dark talent. After about fiftee... Read more
Hip-Hippo Hooray for composer, lyricist and book writer Joan Cushing who returns to Imagination Stage with her funny, rhythmic, heart-warming and charming musical George and Martha: Tons of... Read more
No curtain divides the stage from the audience at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Upon entering the amphitheater, one has no choice but to co... Read more
In the dog days of summer in a muggy Mississippi courtroom in rural Ford County, the chilling details of Pete Willard’s confession to the recent rape and torture of Tonya Hailey, a 10-year o... Read more
It seems fitting that the heavenly voices from the Chesapeake Chamber Opera are heard echoing throughout the historic Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill. This season general director,... Read more
Based on the popular TV show, HAPPY DAYS, this lively musical version at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia is as sweet as a strawberry milkshake with lots of whipped cream! Toby Orens... Read more
42ND STREET, the tap-dancing backstage musical set during the Great Depression, is making audiences happy at the Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore. It is 1933 and Prohibition had jus... Read more
Singer Tony Bennett recently said in a video promo for his album, “The Ultimate American Songbook,” that “the end of the 20’s and into the 30’s and 40’s w... Read more
All together now! “Shirley, Shirley, Bo Birley, Banana, Fanna Fo Firley, Fee Fi Mo Mirley…Shirley!” That, of course, is an example of the popular 60’s game, “T... Read more
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” The musical masterpiece, SWEENEY TODD by Stephen Sondheim, is challenging for even professional adul... Read more