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Monday, June 9, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Bareback Ink’ at Iron Crow by Steve Charing

There are three groups of theatergoers who will particularly enjoy the Iron Crow Theatre Company’s production of Bareback Ink: aficionados of Greek mythology, gay men, and folks who apprec…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:01PM
Monday, June 2, 2014

Top 10 LGBT Broadway Shows by Steve Charing

June is LGBT Pride month, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising regarded by most historians as the beginning of the modern day gay rights movement. To salute LGBT Pride month, I am …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:00PM
Monday, May 5, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ at Dundalk Community Theatre by Steve Charing

Ce qu’est un grand spectacle!  A kaleidoscope of lovable characters in a town on the French Riviera, zany humor, high camp, splashy costumes, chromatic sets, superb music, stellar perform…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:24AM
Monday, April 14, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Once On This Island’ at Olney Theatre Center by Steve Charing

A booming storm yet again rocks this vulnerable Caribbean island, which happens to be Haiti, “The Jewel of the Antilles.”  And in a matter of 90 minutes—the length of a typical wind-s…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:41PM
Monday, March 24, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘The Homo Poe Show’ at Iron Crow Theatre Company by Steve Charing

It was an ambitious undertaking for the Iron Crow Theater Company’s founder and artistic director Steven J. Satta to create a production inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and presen…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:00PM
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ at Olney Theatre Center by Steve Charing

I don’t think anyone wants to return to the time when the workplace was rife with sexism and sexual harassment was a normal occurrence.  Nor does anyone want to see a business setting whe…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:45PM
Monday, January 27, 2014

Theatre Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Spotlighters Theatre by Steve Charing

“Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona, where we lay our scene/From ancient grudge break to new mutiny/Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean./ From forth the fatal loi…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:39PM
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Theatre News: A Labor of Love: A Silver Anniversary Cabaret by Steve Charing

A joyous, tuneful 25th anniversary cabaret called A Labor of Love took place at Howard the Smith Theatre of the Howard Community College Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on Decembe…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:35PM
Monday, November 25, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Into the Woods’ at Spotlighters by Steve Charing

I was a little skeptical that the intimate, in-the-round stage at the Spotlighters Theatre would be able to do justice to the action-packed musical production Into the Woods. Failing to lear…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:04PM
Monday, November 11, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Breaking the Code’ at the Kossiakoff Center (APL) by Steve Charing

It is so fitting that a play about the British cryptanalyst and trailblazing mathematician, Alan Turing,  who shortened World War II by breaking Hitler’s U-boat Enigma codes and is consid…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:00PM
Monday, October 21, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Death and the Maiden’ at the Spotlighters by Steve Charing

Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman felt compelled to write about his own experiences as a witness to the ghastliness of the General Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in his country from 1973-1990.…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AM
Monday, September 30, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Apartment 213′ at Iron Crow Theatre by Steve Charing

“Hi, I’m Jeff.  Can I buy you a drink?  I’d like to take your picture…of poses and stuff.  I can pay $50.” These were the pick-up lines that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer used in…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:29AM
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Animal Crackers’ at Center Stage by Steve Charing

“It’s hard to overstate the genius of the Marx Brothers,” says Center Stage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah during rehearsals for Animal Crackers. “This is high-flying, laugh-a-mi…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:55PM
Monday, August 19, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ at Beth Tfiloh Community Theatre by Steve Charing

If you ever wanted to be part of solving a murder mystery then you will have that opportunity if you attend the Beth Tfiloh Community Theatre’s production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:47PM
Monday, August 12, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘A Chorus Line’ at Olney Theatre Center by Steve Charing

It may have been 1975 with the birth years of the dancers auditioning for a fictional Broadway musical ranging from 1942 to 1955, but the competition for such chosen roles by “gypsies,” …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:37PM
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Steve Charing

Tevye, the central character in Fiddler on the Roof, must pull a milk cart by himself because his horse is lame.  In doing so, he slowly, pedantically drags it through Anatevka, a small vil…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:52PM
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

BPF Review: ‘The Rainbow Plays’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre by Steve Charing

The 32nd annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival started off on the right foot with Rich Espey’s The Rainbow Plays currently running at the Fells Point Corner Theatre.  Mr. Espey, a Baltimo…

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AM
Monday, June 10, 2013

Theatre Review: ‘Nunsense’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore by Steve Charing

Most of us probably do not know what actually goes on behind the stark, sturdy walls of a traditional convent.  We believe that such an edifice would reflect austerity, include much prayer …

SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:15AM

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