author: Rick Bergmann
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Balances Screwball Comedy and Sharp Cultural Reckoning
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, now showing at Laurel Mill Playhouse, sets out to do a lot—and nearly pulls it off. First produced in 2011, the play examines the legacy of African Americans in Hollywood, skewering racial stereotypes while reveling in the conventions of classic cinema and theater.
Smoky and zingy duck-egg salad, with chives, spread thick with pepperjack cheese, thick-cut heirloom-beefsteak tomato slice, and spicy brown mustard on a crispy baguette brushed with red pepper flake and chili oil. Mm. The first bite should be an invitation you can’t refuse. Spotlighters Theatre closes out their 62nd Season with that sumptuous first bite— Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage— and it’s as delicious as the advertisements have been leading everyone to believe. Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell,
author: Anthony Case
There is a lot to say about the play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Nzotake Shange. The play, or choreopoem as she put it, was written in 1977 and has become a legendary text in black theater. Its exploration of the trials and joys and hardships of being both black and a woman in America has spoken strongly to black women,
author: Chris Pence
Where Were You when The World Stopped Turning: Out of The Blue at Laurel Mill Players
“September 11th, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.”
– Geraldine Brooks
Everyone remembers where they were on that blue cloudless day in September when the Twin Towers fell,
A Spoonful of Wine Helps The Poison Go Down: Arsenic & Old Lace at Bowie Community Theare
author: Chris Pence
Don’t drink the wine at Bowie Community Theatre! Joseph Kesselring’s 1939 classic black comedy Arsenic & Old Lace follows Mortimer Brewster, a theatre critic who comes home to 1930’s Brooklyn to announce to his beloved Aunts Abby and Martha that he’s engaged to Elaine Harper,