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Bay Theatre Company’s The Price

A brilliant staging of Arthur Miller’s moving tribute to bonds that bind

Davina Grace Hill
Sometimes you want a simple beach novel to bide away the time, and sometimes you want to be in the presence of a master who can control language, inflection and develop great profound meanings. If you are in the latter mood, Bay Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Price is the show to see.  In The Price, Miller revisits the family dynamics he explored in Death of a Salesman. This work has some prescient lines for today, some of the most realistic (and often, painful) family dialogues and confrontation written this side of Eugene O’Neill.
article –   –  by Davina Grace Hill  – 5/2/13

Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Pride and Prejudice

Unspoken passion simmers behind courtly manners in this gem of pop culture from a bygone era

Jane C. Elkin
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
article –   –  by Jane C. Elkin  – 4/25/13

The Theatre at AACC’s The Underpants

Three surprising sources combine to make comedy

Davina Grace Hill
Theater starts with the written word, comes to life in the voices of actors and endures in the memory of its audiences. Sometimes, as with Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants, written in 1910, it gets forgotten until someone rediscovers it, reimagines it and breathes life into it — as comedian Steve Martin did for The Underpants in 2002.
article –   –  by Davina Grace Hill  – 4/18/13

Compass Rose Theater’s Eleemosynary

Playing thru Mother’s Day, this study in maternal dysfunction should be required viewing for everyone but childless orphans

Jane C. Elkin
Can an estranged grandmother, mother and daughter find grace in time to rebuild their family? This is the question Compass Rose Theater poses in their promotion for Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary, an award-winning play that takes its name from an obscure word in a spelling bee dictionary. Appearing now through Mother’s Day, this study in maternal dysfunction should be required viewing for everyone but childless orphans.
article –   –  by Jane C. Elkin  – 4/11/13

Twin Beach Players’ Rumors

You’ll laugh until you ache, then laugh some more

Michelle Steel
Four affluent couples gathered in a posh suburban residence for a dinner party to honor friends’ 10th anniversary celebration find mischief surrounding the event.     There are no servants: How can the party continue? The hostess is missing. So is the host — the deputy mayor of New York City — who has reportedly shot himself through the earlobe.
article –   –  by Michelle Steel  – 4/4/13

Colonial Players’ 1776

See a Congress of courage and passion, theater of vision and great musical entertainment

Davina Grace Hill
In 1969, Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards created 1776, a compelling historical musical. (Have those three descriptive words ever before been used together?) Their play depicts the debates, passions and courage it took to craft the Declaration of Independence and start along the path to creating this new country, the United States of America.
article –   –  by Davina Grace Hill  – 3/28/13

Bowie Community Theatre’s In the Heat of the Night

This Night is so dark that you strain to see the actors

Jane C. Elkin
Bowie Community Theatre is up to its rafters in shady business again. The troupe that brought you Murder By Misadventure and Who Dunit? now turns to the segregated South for a crime drama with the twisted face of bigotry. Matt Pelfrey’s 2010 stage adaptation of In the Heat of the Night is based on the John Ball novel that inspired an Oscar-winning film and an Emmy-winning TV series.
article –   –  by Jane C. Elkin  – 3/21/13

2nd Star Productions’ It Runs in the Family

Laugh your way out of winter with this play

Davina Grace Hill
The British have been stereotyped as stodgy. The truth is that they are quite bawdy and irreverent. The plays of Ray Cooney — including It Runs in the Family, now playing at 2nd Star Productions — are typical British humor.     The British love a farce where nothing is sacred or above ridicule. In It Runs in the Family that includes the clergy, police, doctors and matrimony. “If you tell a lie, make it a whopper,” an actors says in words that could be this play’s subtext.
article –   –  by Davina Grace Hill  – 2/28/13

True-Life Drama with Scope, Depth and Satisfaction

Colonial Players’ two-person show Trying will surprise you in a good way

Davina Grace Hill
Trying will surprise you in a good way. Colonial Players is promoting this delightful two-person show as a work rich in history and contrasts, and it is. It is also a love story, refreshingly sweet and platonic.
article –   –  by Davina Grace Hill  – 2/21/13

Laughing at Our Nightmares – Two comedies at Bay Theatre Company

In Sister Mary Ignatius and in The Actor’s Nightmare are plights you’ll remember from your past and in your dreams

Jane C. Elkin
Winter has a way of boxing us into our insular realities. Bay Theatre unfolds them with mind-bending comedy in a double bill of one-acts: the Obie Award-winning satire Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You! and The Actor’s Nightmare. Both are by Christopher Durang, sometimes referred to as Christopher Deranged.
article –   –  by Jane C. Elkin  – 2/14/13
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