159 days ago- As James Goldman’s epic play, “The Lion in Winter,” draws to a close, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Sherrionne Brown) laments to her husband, Henry II (Phil Gallagher), “We’re jungle creatures, Henry, and the dark is all around us. See them in the corners? You can see the eyes.”
278 days ago- “C.Y.A.,” Kimberley Lynne’s entry to the 2007 Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival, opens to the strains of the Guns N’ Roses hit “Welcome to the Jungle.”
337 days ago- Beauty, it is said, is in the eye of the beholder. But what if this beauty were lost on your co-workers, your friends, what you perceive as a society as a whole? Could you still embrace it?
360 days ago- The curtain rises to Hasidic Jew hand puppets, the parting of the Red Sea, dancing, flashlights and “four Jews in a room bitching” — and this is just the first 60 seconds of “Falsettos.”
378 days ago- It’s not exactly a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield, but there’s definitely an “if you build it, they will come” mystique to The Promenade DanceSport facility, located at 2605 Lord Baltimore Drive in Baltimore. Just ask owner Cindy Sumida, who runs the 5,000-square-foot dance emporium with her husband, Ed Timmerman.
405 days ago- Back when I was in college, every coed and a few “with-it” professors were agog over a movie called “The Big Chill.” A defining film for the ’80s, it told the story of how a bunch of free-loving friends gather on the occasion of a dear one’s demise.