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Zipporah Brown Gladden (left) as Mattie Campbell and Miley Folley (right) as Jeremy Furlow in Joe Turner's Come and Gone at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company ???? Kiirstn Pagan Photography

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Reviews September 23, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

If you forget your song or how to sing it, you forget who you are. There’s something powerful in that paraphrased saying from August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, which is appearing live on the main stage at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, as a part of the Baltimore City-wide “Baltimore August Wilson Celebration.” As the second production in this city-wide festival, committed to producing ten of August Wilson’s works in chronological order (of when they take place,

Previewing Poe’s Last Stanza at Do Or Die Productions

News October 8, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Men have called him mad. But the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. What if you could discover for yourself? What if you could spend an evening in rapt attention and questionable company uncovering the enigma that is the master of the macabre? What if you could spend one evening in close company with Edgar Allan Poe as he drinks, gambles, flirts, and muses his way through his delirious mind?

Madness & Melancholy: An Interview with Baltimore’s John Kelso on Playing Edgar Allan Poe

Interviews October 1, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” –Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordyn Pym.

When one twists darkened words of macabre and melancholy through the mind and round the tongue, one finds perhaps phantom shades of Baltimore’s beloved Edgar Allan Poe coming to light. Returning to the stage after two years’ hiatus, Do Or Die Productions is reviving their renowned production of Poe’s Last Stanza,

John Kelso as Edgar Allen Poe in Poe's Last Stanza by Ceej Crowe

Poe’s Last Stanza at Do or Die Productions

News November 3, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Tis the season to be inclined toward mischief and mayhem. Even if Halloween itself be over, and November freshly fallen upon us, who among us is really ready for that other holiday— the one with the elves and the singing and the snow? Settle back into the autumnal enchantments of a Baltimore classic, Poe’s Last Stanza, a yearly running and returning tradition produced by Do or Die Productions and hosted at their resident venue,

Review: Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Dead! at Do or Die Mysteries

Reviews November 19, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Hey, man! Time to get on the same wavelength with counter-culture, man! Wake up, millennials! It’s time to photobomb the picture of tomorrow with a wicked flashback from the past, man! It’s time to expand your mind, man, and do it the right way! With kitchen counter culture and a selfie, man! And Do or Die Mysteries has it all— if you’re just prepared to Tune In, Turn On…and Drop Dead! Written and Directed by Ceej Crowe,

Review: Hamlet at Cohesion Theatre Company

Reviews March 10, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

The mayhem never stops over at Cohesion Theatre Company and their latest mount to the stage is truly wondrous strange. Taking William Shakespeare’s Hamlet to task, Director Alice Stanely refocuses the driving forces of the plot’s actions and tunes them into the highly potent pathos of grief. Coping with loss is never easy, and the ways in which human beings express these feelings are nothing short of evocative, stirring, and daringly dramatic as witnessed in this production.

Jose de la Mar as Edgar Allan Poe in Poe's Last Stanza at Do or Die Productions

Review: Poe’s Last Stanza at Do or Die Mysteries

Reviews October 22, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Worldly goods come and go, but exceptional theatre lasts beyond its ephemeral nature in the recesses of the mind of those that attended. Poe’s Last Stanza falls into the category of ephemeral theatrical brilliance that will linger on and be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to encounter the performance produced by Do or Die Mystery Productions. Written and Directed by C.J. Crowe, the piece is a highly immersive and interactive involvement that makes Edgar Allan Poe and all of his mysterious gloom highly accessible to everyman,