MOUNT ST. MARY UNIVERSITY

by Timoth David Copney - September 26, 2024

Like so many great Broadway musicals, this one was also born somewhere else, getting its start in London’s West End like so many other imports to Broadway. With a book by David West Read, who writes some of the funniest dialogue I have heard in a while, this light-hearted romp through some weighty t...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - September 23, 2024

The joint effort of Baltimore's theaters to present the entire Pittsburgh Cycle is a cause for celebration, and this production, the second in the cycle, is superb....

by Jack L. B. Gohn - September 10, 2024

This is almost certainly the funniest thing you’re likely to see all year. Leave your delicate sensibilities behind and go....

by Cybele Pomeroy - August 20, 2024

In Mel Holley's PILLAR RABBIT, produced by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, you’ll meet characters you feel you already know, and laugh and cry with them. Director Ta'Von Vinson assembles an excellent multi-generational cast to perform against a beautiful set at historic Spotlighters Theatre in B...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 18, 2024

In presenting the story of a neuro-diverse protagonist mostly through the protagonist's eyes, and shredding narrative consistency and sequence, the playwright Harmon dot aut has rendered a confusing story. But with captivating characters and subject matter, this is still a play worth seeing....

by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 15, 2024

As a vehicle for making things go bump in the night, I’m not sure this show consistently hits the target. It is a bit too much of a human interest story for that, but a bit too bump-filled to work smoothly as a human interest story either. Yet there are some legitimate skin-crawling moments, and the...

by Cybele Pomeroy - July 14, 2024

Toby's in Columbia presents the ‘origin story’ of New Jersey natives who became The Four Seasons. The script of JERSEY BOYS is tight, the pace rapid: this script and these songs - the Four Seasons’ catalog, plus others- form a stellar example of a really GOOD jukebox musical. I recommend you go imme...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 10, 2024

This is an important play, to be considered a peer of Angels in America and The Inheritance, a sweeping two-play multigeneration account of the impact of AIDS on the American gay community -- with the difference that this one focuses on men and women of color. It may suffer from some lack of restrai...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - July 10, 2024

It's not an unfamiliar tale, following Holocaust victim Eddie Jaku from comfortable circumstances through horror and gradually out again. Because there has been a sizeable body of Holocaust literature, drama and cinema, little of this is exactly new to us. But Jaku’s personality, his wry way of desc...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - May 08, 2024

So, even with one major problem, the muddy sound denign, whether to go see this show is no mystery. The solution: catch it while it’s here....