Articles Tagged With: Baltimore Centerstage

Pride & Prejudice at Baltimore Center Stage

Reviews October 21, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

How much can we ever know of anyone? We are all blind to ourselves, after all. But don’t be blind to Baltimore Center Stage. And know that they are currently producing a spectacular production of Pride & Prejudice (by Kate Hamill, adapted from Jane Austen’s novel.) It’s a wildly comedic reimagining of Regency life with colorful characters, twisted societal demands, and a bunch of other little quirky gems that will keep you snickering and enjoying yourself from start to finish.

The Importance of Being Earnest at Baltimore Center Stage

Reviews May 13, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Well, say it ain’t so, hon! Because Baltimore Center Stage is closing out its 2023/2024 mainstage season with a wild new adaptation of Wilde’s fanciful comedy— The Importance of Being Earnest— and it’s just a delightful gem, serving as the perfect sparkling cap to the five-show season. Adapted and Directed by Jenny Koons,

The Hot Wing King at Baltimore Center Stage

Reviews April 15, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Lessons can be blessings. Mistakes can be good. Finding a way to learn the lessons and take the ‘Beyoncé’ approach to making lemonade when life won’t stop raining fiery hot lemons down on your head is exactly what the Pulitzer Prize-Winning play The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall is serving up in the Pearlstone Theatre of Baltimore Center Stage. It’s a limited engagement, playing through the end of the month of April but it’s a powerhouse piece that’s equal parts funny and heartfelt,

Looping Live: A Real-Time-Now-Transcribed Conversation with Director David Mendizábal on Mexodus’ debut at Baltimore Center Stage

Interviews March 1, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Theatre is forever reinventing itself; telling stories, telling tales and expanding itself. New formats and phases, growing and showing— there’s so many new ways that the theatre keeps going. And this new format of a two-person, live-looping musical telling the story of the Underground Railroad and how it ventured south into Mexico is one of those new innovations. Appearing first at Baltimore Center Stage before it travels over to Mosaic Theatre in DC, Mexodus— a blended hip-hop history musical,

Ensemble of Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) at ArtsCentric & Baltimore Center Stage????J Fannon

Cinderella at ArtsCentric & Baltimore Center Stage

Reviews December 2, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Glass Slipper? ✔

Pumpkin Carriage? ✔

Lousy step-family, prince and princess, big ol’ ball? ✔✔✔

But if you think you know the story of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, think again. To quote my 63-year-old mother (who at the time of this review, we’re now 12 hours post leaving the theatre and she’s still telling me things she discovered and was awestruck by and enjoyed), “that was the best,