Ted Hendricks is a playwright and critic. He teaches English and World Drama at Towson University.
A Guide to Wilson's American Century Cycle Ahead of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration is a unique opportunity to see Wilson’s entire cycle, in historical order, in only three seasons.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Katori Hall brings four gay Black men together for the weekend
With The Hot Wing King, Baltimore Center Stage serves up a lively spread of rapid-fire one-liners, spicy moves, and camaraderie that serves as an entree to a discussion of contemporary Black manhood through April 28
Pigeonaire's Immersive Show Lands in Peabody Heights Brewery Through March 31
Pigeonaire's production of Sailing Over a Cardboard Sea is a thoughtful reflection on the responsibility that scientists have to their societies.
Murder! Retaliation! And More Reasons to See the New Adaptation of Aeschylus’ Ancient Greek Drama
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's current production, an adaption of Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy by Ellen McLaughlin, is brilliantly directed by Lise Bruneau and features outstanding performances by Isabelle Anderson as Clytemnestra and Lizzi Albert as Electra. On stage through March 10.
Rapid Lemon Production at The Strand Theater Breaks Down the Fences
The Book of Grace opens with a familiar theme, the love-hate relationship between a domineering father and an aspiring son. By the end of the play that conflict has taken on world-shattering significance for both men.
Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Museum Showcases Works From 1965-1980
The works in The Speed of Time show artists co-opting, even deconstructing film and video, media that, in their commercial form, were on their way to dominating the American consciousness.
The Historic Story of Afong Moy Speaks to a Present Audience, Through November 19th
The two-person cast, Tuyết Thị Phạm (Afong Moy) and Đavid Lee Huỳnh (Atung), under Nana Dakin’s skillful direction, show the effect of cultural exploitation on the individual. They also, along with the talented design team, raise the question of whether we are complicit in that exploitation.
On Stage Through November 19th
The Vagabond Players have opened their 108th season with a handsome production of Tim Rice’s Cold War rock opera Chess. Under Stephen M. Deininger’s excellent direction, this neglected work has come back to Baltimore’s Broadway with a bang.
A Fresh Adaption by Joanie Schultz on Stage Through September 28th
This season, Everyman leads off with an innovative staging of A Doll’s House, the play for which Ibsen is best known.
Hatleberg has recorded a world that is “forgotten without ever being quite remembered.”
The book's title, River’s Dream, comes from Hatleberg's desire for his child to be able to enter the same dream state of heightened perception he himself works in.
