Articles Tagged With: Theatre Project

John Covaleskie (left) and Michael P. Sullivan (right) in The Monroe Doctrine ???? Rand Black

The Monroe Doctrine at Baltimore Theatre Project

Reviews August 18, 2024 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

What defines success? The American Dream? Career goals? Personal satisfaction? Baltimore playwright Mark Scharf examines these queries and more in The Monroe Doctrine, a new play making its world premiere at The Baltimore Theatre Project. The play centers around the Monroe Family, a typical American family hoping to celebrate Memorial Day 2014 with the Traditional Monroe Family Memorial Day Picnic on Hog Island, Maryland. Through family arguments and personal reflections,

Rent at Iron Crow Theatre

Reviews January 25, 2024 Leonard Taube

By now most of us have heard of the musical RENT and may have even seen a production (or more), and/or possibly even caught the movie version of Jonathan Larson’s brilliant masterpiece which chronicles the lives of several struggling young artists/activists/musicians in New York set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic. With roots loosely in the 1896 opera La Boheme, Larson’s tale is set in the then-thriving Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in New York.

Hurricane Diane at Iron Crow Theatre

Reviews January 22, 2023 Leonard Taube

OK, listen up folks. Do you believe climate change is real? Do you have a penchant for HGTV? Do you secretly binge watch “Real Housewives of New Jersey”? If the answer is yes, have I got a show for you! Even if the answer is no to all or at least one of those questions, Iron Crow Theatre’s production of Hurricane Diane is one that promises to please nonetheless. And make you laugh.

Mankind at Iron Crow Theatre

Reviews October 10, 2022 Joshua Bermont

Representing the triumphant return of the Iron Crow Theatre after their long pandemic hiatus, Mankind – written by Robert O’Hara, and directed by Ann Turiano – is a bold and beautifully-presented madcap satire that throws stones at such formidable topics as religion, anti-abortion legislation, and an upside-down world where “FEMINISM!” is a battle cry while women themselves are an afterthought.

This frenetic cyclone of ever-escalating absurdity takes place in a future where women have been extinct for over a century,

Trash Talk: An Interview with Single Carrot Theatre’s B Kleymeyer and Kolton Cotton about Kiss Me, Mr. Musk

Interviews August 16, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

You’re gonna need a bigger boat. No, it’s not Jaws: The Musical (but I’m sure that’s coming…just look at Back To The Future: The Musical headed to Broadway in spring of 2023)…but you are definitely going to need a bigger boat if sea levels rise and Baltimore City becomes flooded. Perhaps Papa Bezos will lend you his space-rocket or let you rent out his penthouse suite at the new Moon Hotel.

AntiCone at Baltimore Theatre Project

Reviews June 24, 2022 Joshua Bermont

What can be said about something as bizarre, unexpected, and unapologetically ridiculous as AntiCone, the performance art spectacle written, produced, and directed by Tia Shearer and Natasha Mirny (Happy Theater) currently on offer at Baltimore Theatre Project?

At some point in one’s life – generally when one visits friends who have, in recent years, become parents – one is approached by a group of little kids and breathlessly invited to “see a play they’ve just written.” Naturally,

(L to R) Sarah Olmsted Thomas, Alex Vernon, Sabrina Mandell, Mark Jaster, and Gwen Grastorf in Pocket Moxie!

Pocket Moxie at Happenstance Theatre

Reviews March 25, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Many may have moved away from Vaudeville but not Happenstance Theatre! Fresh off their whirlwind-tour of New York City’s off-Broadway, they have returned to Charm City in true Happenstance fashion bringing with them a jubilant and bubbly new show— Pocket Moxie. As ever, the performance is collaboratively devised by the ensemble— Gwen Grastorf, Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell, Sarah Olmsted Thomas, Alex Vernon— and it brings the delights of a bygone era to vivacious and zany life for everyone at Baltimore Theatre Project to enjoy.

Songs From The UnderWorld at Theatre Project

Reviews February 26, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s a strange time that we’re currently traversing. The Pandemic may never truly be over; it is transitioning to something that is endemic and for some life is returning to normal or new-normal, however you’d like to label it; this is the next step. The next step for Kristin Putchinski, perhaps more readily recognized by her performance moniker, ellen cherry, is to start Grad School and put a pause on performing. In a curious self-discovery piece that is just as strange and disjointed as the current lives we’re all leading as we figure out how to take these next steps back into the real world,

Thank You, Dad at Rapid Lemon Productions

Reviews January 11, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

Amanda N. Gunther | TheatreBloom

In a world exploding with fake news, the facts often get
lost in the chaotic flurry of excitement fluttering all around the story. And
even when the facts are straight forward, they don’t tell the whole story. The
facts here are straight forward. On November 18, 1978 over 900 people died in
the Jonestown agricultural commune in Guyana; over 300 of them were aged 17 and
under.

Dirty Pictures at Rapid Lemon Productions

Reviews October 15, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

When you force the eye to see something in a whole new light; that’s true beauty. A pile of junk is just a pile of junk until it isn’t anymore; looking differently upon something broken, disregarded, or damaged can transform trash into treasure. In the world premiere of D. W. Gregory’s Dirty Pictures, art, beauty, and truth find new lights and the backwoods yokels of wilderness-nowhere Colorado absorb new perspective on what those things mean to their lives.

Review: Cabaret Macabre: The Return Visit at Happenstance Theater

Reviews November 3, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Like an old friend autumn greats Baltimore with its crisp chilly nights, its darkened spirits and shades of Halloween, and its spine-tingling tales of doom and gloom. So too does Happenstance Theater great its faithful followers on its annual return to Baltimore Theatre Project. Cabaret Macabre: The Return Visit materializes from the theatrical ether to haunt, mesmerize, and enchant its audience, both newcomers and fond friends. A living theatrical collage of macabre inspiration in fluid,

Review: Hick: A Love Story- The Romance of Lorena Hickok & Eleanor Roosevelt at Theatre Project

Reviews March 1, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

A real lady only gets her name in the paper three times: when she’s born, when she gets married, and when she dies. But what if you’re the wife of the president of the United States? What if you’re the most historically influential First Lady to grace the White House? What if you’re having a secret conflagration of Sapphic passion with a member of the Associated Press? Surely your name will hit the paper a good deal more.