author: Chris Pence
It was the one case that kept Poirot awake at night, the one that had more twists and turns than a rail line through the mountains, the Murder On The Orient Express. Agatha Christieâs timeless mystery finally comes to the stage, roaring into the station at Manor Mill Playhouse.
Based on the novel of the same name by the Mistress of Murder herself, Dame Agatha Christie,
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 canât refuse. Spotlighters Theatre closes out their 62nd Season with that sumptuous first biteâ Clydeâs by Lynn Nottageâ and itâs as delicious as the advertisements have been leading everyone to believe. Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell,
Madness does not run through the theatre family; it gallops. With sardines. And while youâre certainly not going to get a gargantuan house on the postage stamp stage at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, you can definitely get a hilariously good time with their current production of Charles Moreyâs Laughing Stock. Mild to moderate insanity with a dash of âWTFâ all balled neatly into the nonsense that is the lifestyle we choose when we jump into the world of theatre.
ââŚto think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the graveâŚâ
Christmas starts in October for everyone else, so why not use a lesser-recognized Dickensâ quote to welcome in the latest show of Season 61 at Spotlighters? (And if you need more Dickens in your life, beyond this hook-quote, be sure to book your tickets for the cherished annual performance of Phil Gallagherâs one-man A Christmas Carol coming this December) But this particular quote feels apropos for Outward Bound,
Growing up as an only child, I often imagined what it would be like to have siblings and to be able to grow older with them. After seeing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Spotlighters Theatre I no longer need to imagine what that type of life might look like. Written by Christopher Durang and Directed by Erin Klarner, this play encapsulates the ups and downs of sibling dynamics and proves that even as adultsâ siblings will always have a unique and indescribable bond.
Ay, me! Whatâs in a name? Would a show by any other name still be so tragic? Probably. The Bardâs Wagon Players have surfaced for their annual summertime âShakespeare in the Parkâ production! And this yearâ the sizzling summer of 2022â itâs none other than the infamous tragedy, Romeo & Juliet. Directed by Nathan Rosen, Produced by Bob Frank, and Stage Managed by Liana Olear, this outdoor offering has two different locationsâ Hannah More Park in Reisterstown and Catonsville Community Park in Catonsvilleâ over the course of two different weekends,
Friday night, October 22, 2021, was a very big night for a small but important theatre, one of a select few that are the very soul of Baltimore theatre history. After nineteen months of darkness thrust upon them due to Covid-19 lockdowns and mandates, The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, that diminutive little workhorse in the step down basement on St. Paul Street, opened again with a light fanfare and a comfortable crowd of faithful patrons to kick off their 59th Season.
Do you ever feel like what makes you a person is what keeps
you from being a person? Poignant question from Wendy Wassersteinâs s The Heidi
Chronicles, which just so happens to be on the stage of The Salem Players
this fall under the direction of Kate Leisner. What if what makes you who you
are is what keeps you from being who you are? The show itself, while a Pulitzer
Prize-winning piece of theatrical drama from the late 80âs,