Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
EUREKA DAY stirs up comic chaos at Theater J
Jonathan Spector reaped both critical acclaim and audience adulation with the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of his preternaturally prescient comic drama, Eureka Day. Now the widely produced play, its finger firmly on the pulse of the present, comes “home” to Washington’s Theater J, where the playwright was for some time an intern and where a […]
Alex & Olmsted get mechanical at Theatre Project
The puppeteering and filmmaking duo known as Alex & Olmsted, recipients of international recognition and a solid handful of Jim Henson Foundation grants for past work, return to Baltimore Theatre Project with their latest creation, intriguingly titled Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms. The new piece–which blends a variety of puppets with an array of […]
Isidore String Quartet with pianist Jeremy Denk for Shriver Concerts
The New York City-based Isidore String Quartet, which, was formed in 2019 at Juilliard, will be joined by pianist Jeremy Denk for a program of works by Haydn, Billy Childs, and Schumann for the Shriver Hall Concert Series. I spoke to the group’s violist Devin Moore by phone from New York.
Compass Rose revives RENT
With early performances already sold out, after the initial run was delayed by the great snowcrete attack of 2026, Compass Rose Theater is producing a revival of Rent, Jonathan Larsen’s highly acclaimed, now iconic rock musical adaptation of La Boheme. Performances are on the campus at Anne Arundel Community College, where Compass Rose is in […]
Pop culture and puppetry in PLEASE! at Theatre Project
Felicia Cooper is a creator and performer with a deep background in devised work, collaborative theater making, and puppetry who has put all that (and more) into a one-act solo performance, Please!, which launces a spring national tour at Baltimore Theatre Project March 6th-8th. Working in concert with an impressive range and breadth of collaborators […]
Family & physics take the stage in AND YET IT MOVES
A new play by local playwright Katie Ganem gets a staged reading from Glass Canon Theatre Company on February 27th and March 1st at Keegan Theatre, directed by Gil Mitchell. The play is And Yet It Moves, which takes its title from a (possibly apocryphal but no less apt) quip muttered by astronomer Galileo Galilei after […]
Wilde’s Witty Wordplay on Display at GWU
From February 26th through March 1st, the theatrical wizard of witty wordplay, Oscar Wilde, will be back on display in what is undoubtedly his best-known and best-beloved piece of stagecraft, The Importance of Being Earnest. This “Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” as its author cheekily subtitled his play when it debuted in 1895, dances deftly […]
Parlor Arts offers a performance buffet at Zen West
Still somewhat new on the local arts scene but already making an outsized impact, Parlor Arts brings together some of Baltimore’s richest resources in a feel-good-do-good, cabaret-style evening: the depth and breadth of performing arts, the grassroots power of an engaged community, and the significant range of local non-profits working on behalf of meaningful causes. […]
Mind on Fire launches double bill at The Voxel
How does one go about representing, musically, more than two million acres of protected wilderness and the story of how that came to be? Or tackling in a concerto the tussle between technology and individuality, with ego and avatar scored for bassoon? If you’re the musical ensemble Mind on Fire, the answer is, first, to […]
Bach maestra Angela Hewitt returns to Shriver Concerts
Angela Hewitt‘s performances of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters, and she returns to the Shriver Hall Concert Series with two of his works, along with pieces by Rameau and Scarlatti on Sunday, February 22.
