Articles Tagged With: Susan Stroupe

The Benefactors, performed here by Ursula Marcum and Josh Hne. 📸Glen Ricci

Katalepsis at Submersive Productions

Reviews April 7, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Surreal. And yet utterly relatable. Immersive. And yet distantly isolated. Unfathomable. And yet completely imaginable. This paradox of experiences is what awaits the theatrical explorer that could— and should— be you, with Submersive Productions’ latest offering: Katalepsis. Welcome to a world set many generations in the future, where humanity has been wiped from the face of the earth by a virus, and only a precious few— four to be exact— remain, supported by mysterious benefactors,

The Orphan Sea at Cohesion Theatre Company

Reviews April 5, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

Tell us your story. Let us talk with each other. But we will soon forget; that is the way of all things. Or is it? Will you forget their story? Partnered in repertory with La Llorona, in Cohesion Theatre Company’s first ever attempt at rotating repertory shows, The Orphan Sea by Caridad Svich boggles the mind over storytelling at its most primitive. Originally commissioned by The University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Theatre,

Mani Yangilmau (center) as La Llorona with the Gatekeepers (Chara Bauer, Christian Gonzalez, Jonathan Jacobs, Mika J Nakano)

La Llorona at Cohesion Theatre Company

Reviews March 29, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

What’s the weirdest thing you ever believed in? A ghost? A spiritual practice? A religion? What about an urban legend? We’ve all heard them. We all have them. Some of us have even experienced them. What happens when one story crosses through multiple cultures, where everyone knows a different version of the story? Cohesion Theatre Company, in their first attempt at running shows in rep, presents La Llorona, written by Cecelia Raker,

H.T. Darling’s Incredible MUSÆUM Presents The Treasures of New Galapagos: Astonishing Acquisitions from the Perisphere at Submersive Productions

Reviews April 4, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you prepared to experience the mesmerizing wonder that awaits you inside a brand new cabinet of curiosities? Are you ready to undertake a most daring expedition to explore the excitements of an immersive theatrical endeavor that exists outside the bounds of time and space? Then step off with Submersive Productions and ready yourself for the most unusual and unique experience of a lifetime. In sentient residence at The Peale Center, one of Baltimore’s treasured historic buildings,

Review: Harry and the Thief at Strand Theater Company

Reviews March 31, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you cool enough to enjoy the strawberry? Because there is no difference between the past and the future, they’re all with you together in the bed of the present. Are you ready for a cinematic hybrid of chaos, confusion, and conclusive truth that is masquerading itself across the stage of Strand Theater Company? Because if you are, then you’re ready to face Harry and the Thief, written by Sigrid Gilmer.

Reflective History: An Interview with Director Susan Stroupe on Strand Theater Company’s Harry & The Thief

Interviews March 30, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

When the name Harriet Tubman is mentioned, to many of us— especially those of us here in Baltimore— a particular image comes to mind: a kindly older woman wrapped in her shawl, showing folks the way to freedom on the underground railroad. But the legendary woman of history was so much more than that. And what happens when a time-traveling genius plots to intercept Harriet Tubman in her heyday and load her up with enough guns to incite a revolution that will echo throughout all of time and space?

A Dream Within A Dream: An Interview with the Co-Creators of The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe

Interviews October 16, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. A dream? A nightmare? A vision? A world trapped between worlds. Baltimore’s very own site-specific immersive experiential theatre show has returned to the Enoch Pratt House in time for the haunted Halloween season. Going inside the minds of the madness in a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we sit down with Co-Directors and Co-Creators Glenn Ricci and Susan Stroupe to better understand The Mesmeric Revelations!

Review: The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe- Revisited!

Reviews October 13, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you asleep? Good. Let us begin. Again. Darkness has once more descended upon your mind, crept into your dreams, and awakened a nightmare that you knew once before. A vestibule, instructions, the evening awaits— and you recall having been here before. Or have you? Fact and fiction, living and dead, waking and sleeping, the lines are blurring together once more in an evocatively immersive theatrical experience like no other. Returning to The Enoch Pratt House in time for the haunting season,

Review: The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe

Reviews April 14, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you asleep? Good. Let us begin. A vestibule awaits your arrival inside the doors of the Enoch Pratt House; a house preserved in time and seldom available to the public. Instructions await you from one of the house’s many stewards— exploring is encouraged, speaking unless spoken to is prohibited, unearthly events may occur. An intensely immersive theatrical experience like no other in Baltimore, Washington, or any of the surrounding metropolitan areas, The Mesmeric Revelations!