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There are a couple of reasons for Telling Baltimore, and one that I heard bandied around last week was that both Iraq and Afghanistan have outlived the American attention span. That was about a week ago, at a preview held at the Walters. A lot has ...
Published: May 6, 2011
In Walt Spangler’s striking set for Center Stage’s production of Crime and Punishment, the stage’s most obvious marker is a staircase. It heads from the floor of Raskolnikov’s garret and disappears into the eaves of the Head Theater. The production, directed by Jason Loewith, and adapted ...
Published: April 23, 2011
If there was one story being repeated ceaselessly at the three day Charles Theater premier of “Putty Hill,” it was of how Matt Porterfield's micro-budget film about a Baltimore suburb was discovered by the Rolling Stones. The film's climactic scene, the wake of Cory, a 24 ...
Published: March 6, 2011
I'd have a lot of clever things to say about the James Knipple-directed version of Debbie Harbin's reimagining of Karl Capek's 1921 classic RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), but it's late in the game. The essential point is this: James Knipple has returned to Baltimore, complete ...
Published: February 26, 2011
With a title like “Drinking Up the Pieces,” playing at the Theater Project from February 18 to February 21, actor/playwright Mark Unger is setting himself a stern task. Not only does he have to spend 1 ½ hours keeping people interested in a somewhat run-of-the-mill ...
Published: February 19, 2011
Follow me. In Heather McDonald's “An Almost Holy Picture,” that's what Samuel Gentle (Michael Stebbins) remembers God telling him to do when he was nine years old, while clutching his father’s hand in a cranberry bog. Samuel listened, and started off on a four decade journey ...
Published: February 10, 2011
At the front door of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Iron Crow Theatre's production of Apartment 213, a piece of paper is passed out. It isn’t a program. It's a Xeroxed, handwritten note that describes with some fondness and a little regret the hobby of raising exotic fish in a ...
Published: November 12, 2010
When asked to explain the one-hour dance/theater production of Paraffin – which plays from June 17-20 at Baltimore’s Theater Project, Naoko Maeshiba says, simply, that there’s nothing to understand. Speaking as someone who's seen it twice, I'll second that. The production leaves the ...
Published: June 16, 2010
In an era when art is criticized for being too political, and politics is criticized for being too theatrical, Israeli playwright Motti Lerner is sitting in the eye of the hurricane. He's been there for three decades, while writing politically charged plays, television shows, and ...
Published: April 20, 2010
Straight white males take a lot of flack these days, especially in the theater world. If you place yourself in that category, you might want to check out Scott Schofield's Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps at the Theater Project. (If you're not a ...
Published: April 3, 2010
