The third installment in playwright Dominique Morisseau’s play cycle entitled “The Detroit Projects” opened recently at Baltimore Center Stage. “Skeleton Crew,” which tackles the threat…
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“There’s nothing like watching the slow unraveling of another human being,” my friend said as we stepped out of Everyman Theatre after the opening night…
“The press release says something about the ‘absurdities of motherhood,’” Dawn Ursula says of the play she is directing later this month as she drives…
It’s always incredibly refreshing to sit down to a play written by a woman, about women. The most-produced living playwright in the United States this…
“Alice in Wonderland” purists may be surprised by Center Stage’s production of “Lookingglass Alice,” a retelling of Lewis Carroll’s popular children’s novels, “Alice’s Adventures in…
Yes, the books are really and truly free at The Book Thing in Baltimore. With a mission statement saying that it “puts unwanted books into the…
While widely considered “feminine,” writing occupies a traditionally masculine space within our society. Dating back to the seventeenth century, many women have used male pen names…
Shakespeare seems to be taking the Baltimore area by storm this season, and Center Stage is no exception from that trend. “Shakespeare in Love,” based…
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, digital design positions are going to increase by about twenty percent in the next ten years, opening up…
“Awesome.” “Gay.” “Exhilarating.” “Liberating.” “Astounding…” These are the five words that some of Acid Flashbacks Theatre Company’s board members use to describe their experience…
In the mid-1970s, groups of women settled in Oregon, California and New Mexico in order to occupy a land-based community, by women, for women, that…
Back in the city where it first premiered, “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage is currently delighting viewers of all ages at Everyman Theatre. While somewhat…
In the wake of black male fetishization, the condemnation of male homoeroticism and the strictures of the societal explanation of masculinity, “Man, Idea, Image: Photographs…
With the 500th anniversary of monk Martin Luther posting his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of All Saints’ Church approaching on Oct. 31, the Medieval…
A combination of singing, slam poetry and numerous monologues, Daniel Beaty’s one-man show, “Emergency,” tells the story of a slave ship that rises out of…
A French diplomat walks into a bar in China and begins a twenty-year affair with a man disguised as a female opera singer who also…