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Baltimore Center Stage (BCS)’s complete 2022/23 Season, celebrating BCS’s  60th Anniversary features artists such as Thornton Wilder,  Stevie Walker-Webb,  Jordan E. Cooper,  Lili-Anne Brown,  Nia Vardalos,  Stori Ayers,  Pedro Calderón de la Barca,  Marí­a Irene Fornés and more. Memberships for the 22/23 Season are on sale today at Centerstage.org, and single ticket sales will begin on August 16, 2022. BCS also offers a…

Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. is presenting a  revised version of the  much-loved musical Catch Me If You Can, directed by  Molly Smith.  It will run  March 4 – April 17, 2022, in the iconic in-the-round Fichandler Stage; . Smith and Jocelyn Clarke, dramaturg, examined five different versions of the high-flying musical roller coaster to create a new book that…

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is opening Eduardo Machado’s Celia and Fidel on October 8, 2021. It’s 1980 and Cuba is dealing with a failing economy. As Fidel Castro ponders on how to move his country forward, his political partner, Celia Sánchez, is never far from his side. Imbued with magical…

D.C.’s Studio Theatre will begin its five-play 2021-2022 season in December with Flight, an epic story about two orphaned brothers, refugees who embark on a cross-continental odyssey from their native Syria, hoping to reach safety in the UK. Flight  is an immersive installation created by Scottish innovators Vox Motus and designed by Jamie Harrison (Harry Potter…

“IT SHALL GO HARD BUT I WILL BETTER THE INSTRUCTION” Deep into the world premiere of Aaron Posner’s variation on The Merchant of Venice last Saturday, Shylock pointed at me from the stage and demanded my name. I said, “Rohrer.” Shylock spent 30 seconds heaping calumny upon the name of Rohrer: “Dirty Rohrer, stupid Rohrer,…

NEW ORLEANS IN VIRGINIA Like many operas in the last 100 years, Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire  – recently produced by Virginia Opera  – is through-composed with  very little straight dialogue, declamatory vocals, and text set to music so that the words and sense are both clear (this is also known as  Literaturoper).   Before Debussy’s Pellas et Melisande…

I WILL SURVIVE In the opening act of Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, a group of campers sits by the warm glow of a trashcan fire and tries to retell a favorite episode of The Simpsons. Matt (the ever-energetic Steve Rosen) recalls and reperforms “Cape Feare” with entertaining accuracy. Maria (Jenna Sokolowski) and Jenny (Kimberly…