Articles Tagged With: Martin Sundiata

The Inn at Spotlighters Theatre

Reviews August 10, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

Certainly everywhere is somewhere. And after all, isn’t it more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be? Or am I perhaps conflating Norton Juster and upcoming playwright Elliot Kashner. The latter, I think. Though his current new work, The Inn, appearing at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre as a part of the summer 2026 Baltimore Playwrights Festival offering, does— to my mind— transport me to my first encounter with NPCs.

Bounce at Strand Theater 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Bounce at Strand Theater Company

Reviews June 2, 2026 Erin Tarpley

author: Erin Tarpley

“You’re my wife and I’ve grown to like you”

Relationships are complicated. Familial, romantic, religious, friendships, cultural, marital… you name it. Nothing is ever completely easy. But these different types of relationships have a way of further complicating things when they come together in a sort of spider’s web of rules and expectations that can both entwine and suffocate any individual. And in Somnia Mari Feral’s world premiere production of Bounce,

From East, Like The Sun at Rapid Lemon Productions

Reviews January 11, 2026 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

Perpetual Guests in Foreign Lands: From East, Like The Sun at Rapid Lemon Productions

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Written in 1883, Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus has welcomed immigrants into The United States since being mounted inside the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening The World) since 1903. From its inception, The United States has stood as a guiding light for disenfranchised immigrants,

Devon Michelle Hernandez (left) as Light and Isaiah C. Evans (right) as Dark in 'Light Strikes at Deal' at Variations on Night with Rapid Lemon Productions 📷 Max Garner

Variations On Night at Rapid Lemon Productions

Reviews July 12, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

“When it’s dark, look for stars.”

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensations, darkness stirs and wakes imagination.”

Some of my favorite quotes about night. Two of those three come from musical theatre, my heart and passion, and while there are no 10-minute musicals in this year’s variations festival, the plays on offer are quite impressive, all swirling in the darkened void of this year’s theme: Night.