Daniel Collins - Page 5

Absurdly, sublimely ridiculous playwright Charles Ludlam's salute to acting, the relationship between fathers and sons--especially when the father and son are both actors with an affinity for 'Hamlet'--is the stuff and nonsense of 'Stage Blood' now at the Spotlighters Theater in downtown Baltimore.

Taken from the real-life experiences of Marines and their families, ReEntry provides a look at what it's like for men and women trained to kill to leave the battlefield and return home.

Everyman Theatre's 20th anniversary celebration continues with a riveting performance of the 1946 Arthur Miller family drama, 'All My Sons.'

Shakespeare's comic tale of unrequited love, mistaken identities, cross-dressing, cross-garters, fights and duels, a drunken lord of misrule, and a spoilsport's come-uppance adorns the Spotlighters' diminutive stage.

'Titus Andronicus,' the Bard's bloody horror play, finds the perfect setting in the haunted ruins of Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park as the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents a performance of murder, mayhem and a meal you won't soon forget.

Take five 20-to-30-something ladies and put them into big, billowing satin dresses that make them look like lamps or linebackers. Toss in some sex, religion, drugs, a wee bit o'men bashing and don't forget the lesbian, and you've got award-winning playwright Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.'

It's a tale stranger than truth and fiction as the Everyman Theater presents Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies' story of high seas adventure in 'Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself).'

'Cabaret' is a celebration of celebration. It is also a play about deep denial, in this case, denial that the world was about to irrevocably change, particularly for the people of Germany in 1929-1930 when the work is set.

The Vagabond Players open their 95th season with Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary assault on the hypocrisy of middle class marriage in 'A Doll's House.'

Bulgarians, Russians, Austrians, Serbs, and a Swiss--it's an international carnivale, a study into human happiness and the self-woven tapestry of truths and falsehoods that define ourselves, as the Spotlighters Theatre presents George Bernard Shaw's 'Arms and the Man.'

People are talking, laughing, living. Shots ring out. Screams and more screams and then...nothing. Three college students find themselves in the aftermath of a killing spree in a room with no exit. Does the way out lie through a door or through a better understanding of humanity, how hatred blinds, how love redeems?

It was voted 'best answer,' so it might be right. According to Yahoo Answers, it takes eight months to two years to film a medium-to-big Hollywood movie. Eight months to two years. That's 5,880-17,520 hours, or between 352,800 to 1,051,200 minutes. Okay, now imagine you have only 48 hours (that's 2,880 minutes) to make a movie-cast it, write the script, shoot it, edit it, deliver it, and have it screened before cheering crowds at Baltimore's Charles Theater.

Paul Morella brings famed attorney Clarence Darrow to the Everyman stage in the one-man show, 'Passion for Justice'.

When a loved one is struck with a heart attack, friends and family gather at a North Carolina hospital to support, share, and sympathize...or is it just family? Secrets are revealed in 'The Waiting Room' presented by The Vagabond Players in Fells Point.

Evolution, creationism, the incongruity of heavenly music made from taught string and molded wood. It's God's will, it's murder, it's 'Think Twice' now at the Spotlighters.

In David Harrower's BLACKBIRD, now at The Everyman Theatre in downtown Baltimore, we find a bit of 'Extremities,' some 'Doubt,' and, of all things, a love story.

The Vagabond Players presents David Mamet's 'Speed the Plow,' directed by Steve Goldklang, now through May 16th.

One gains an interesting perspective on a play based on Sophocles' 'Electra' when one watches in the company of a Greek. The angst, anger, and adultery that run through 'The Mai' are certainly appropriate, but where's the bloody body? If a play finds its roots in a Greek tragedy, somebody has to die.

If you like musicals a la the 'Tuna' series, you'll likely enjoy another whimsical look at small town Americana in 'Bingo: A Winning Musical' now at the Spotlighters Theatre.

The Magis Theatre presents 'SONG OF SONGS,' a dramatic adaption of the biblical book, at Loyola University Maryland.