Articles Tagged With: Strand Theater Baltimore

Bounce at Strand Theater đź“· Shealyn Jae Photography

Bounce at Strand Theater Company

 

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,

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The Long Christmas Ride Home at The Strand Theater đź“· Shealyn Jae Photography

The Long Christmas Ride Home at The Strand Theater

author: Erin Tarpley

“Well, what a lovely Christmas you’ve given me”

The weather outside is frightful, but inside The Stand Theater, tidings of comfort and joy are complex and raw (and theatric!) in their opening production of their 18th season.

Directed by Tessara Morgan Farley, Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home is not merely a play: it is a profound, breathtaking piece of theatrical artistry that transcends the familiar boundaries of the American family drama.

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Rarefied Air at Strand Theater Company đź“·Shealyn Jae Photography

Rarefied Air at The Strand

author: Erin Tarpley

Definition of “Rarefied”: distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people

It is sometimes hard to believe that this week marks the five-year anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 “lock-down.”  That time in our all too recent history where we were told that for the benefit of public health and safety, all stores, businesses, and schools would close their doors and everyone (except “essential workers”) were expected to shelter in place and wait for this new novel virus to pass.

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Crisis Mode: Living Pilipino in America at The Strand Theater

Crisis Mode: Living Pilipino in America at the Strand Theater

“If every Filipino lit a candle at the same time, we would light up the world”

The popular American narrative is one based around how this nation was built on people immigrating to these shores from a variety of other lands in search of work, opportunity, or security (whether by choice or by force).  Additionally, the brutal historic reality is that this narrative has always been carefully focused on specific populations at specific points in time,

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