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NEWSIES showcases enthusiastic, athletic, acrobatic dancing- the Company is chockablock with high-end dancers equal to the complications of Christopher Gattelli's choreography, which deservedly earned this show one of its Tony awards.

This season, Glass Mind is producing works that have never before seen the light of stage. This is a noble, perhaps edgy, seriously arty endeavour. It could go horribly, horribly wrong.

If you like MACBETH, there's every reason you'd enjoy Annapolis Shakespeare Company's current production of MACBETH. If you don't like MACBETH but are obligated to accompany someone who does, you won't find much to pick on other than that it's MACBETH. I personally have always felt that the interesting bits of The Scottish Play happen early in the show, and the rest is hand-wringing and an inexorable descent into depravity and madness, and I'd like a word or two with the playwright about that. This is as much as I will say about the script, in the rare circumstance that you might not already know the plot.

If you're from Baltimore, you probably know there's no shortage of shows about the city's unofficial mascot, Edgar Allan Poe, often by impersonators who speak in the poet's voice. You may have seen one or more of them. I think I am personally acquainted with three actors who pay tribute to Baltimore's Bard.

Cabaret Macabre is a fun-filled romp of happy little horrors: merry morbid vignettes and musical numbers abound in this production by Happenstance Theater's ensemble of very capable physical comedians.

I LOVE LUCY Live On Stage delivers, in full color and 3 dimensions, a nostalgic interactive experience of old-fashioned television magic, at the Hippodrome through October 26.

Vagabond Players' production of ART in historic Fells Point is surprisingly funny despite dense dialogue and sparse set- or perhaps because of them.

THE FOREIGNER, an old-fashioned farce with all the classic elements- physical comedy, assumed identities, silly speech and general turmoil- continues through the 18th at Vagabond Players' Little Theatre in Fells Point, Maryland.

An unconventional hour of athletic performance art, depicting the life, dreams and final journey of Amelia Earhart as researched, imagined, written and performed by ariel artist Mara Neimanis.

After a surreal opening sequence, non-linear vignettes explore the all-too-realistic intricacies of a woman trying to make her way in the world.

Think you know what it means to be manly? Feminine? Gay? Repressed?Angry? Promiscuous? Frigid? Fulfilled? Think again.

GHOST THE MUSICAL, based on the 1990 film Ghost, tours the US after a successful West End run with visual effects that enhance the magic of live theatre.

A strong steers us through the tangled paths of family bonds despite cultural divides.

Oddball Elwood P. Dowd embarrasses his family with his insistent devotion to an unsuitable friend. Historical Vagabonds Theater in Fells Point delivers laughs with this Pulitzer Prize-winning drawing room comedy.

at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theater Through December 8, 2013

Let me just say that I am a fan of small community theatres tucked into residential neighborhoods, so naturally I'm inclined to feel kindly towards FPCT. Aside from the issue of parking on the streets of Fells Point, that is. The theatre, which is in its 27th season of operation, has been updated bit by bit, so the overall feel of the interior is contemporary, open and welcoming. The theatre seats are comfortable and don't squeak at all. At intermission, there are refreshments, including wine, available in the lobby.

There are 3 things you should know if you venture to see WE WILL ROCK YOU at The Hippodrome, which I strongly suggest that you do, and quickly, as it's only in town until the 20th: