Baltimore’s best little playfest runs through July 26. Go and be surprised. Rapid Lemon Productions once again presents the Variations Project, a bill of 12 ten-minute plays on a common theme. This ...

Mixing humor and heart, the performers hit every moment perfectly and sing with energy and passion. Tommy Malek plays Nathan Detroit, a gangster looking for a new place to host his long-running craps ...

Yussef El Guindi’s play is a well-written, well-paced example of the thoughtful theater for which CATF is justly renowned. If a rhapsody is defined as something extravagantly enthusiastic, ecstatic, ...

An apartment sidewalk in New York serves as a microcosm of a troubled America. “Harm reduction.” That’s the purpose of smoking, according to the title character in The Smoker, a world premiere by Lisa ...

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The stylish production revives the Tony Award-winning musical with charm, precision, and theatrical flair. It is the rare production that can turn the tips of an actor’s fingers to hilarious account.

A gaggle of gagsters was on hand to honor the winner of the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “Man waits not for time or tide,” Mark Twain once observed. Men and women do, however, ...

Now in its fourth year, the touring program brings free theater to outdoor venues across Baltimore July 21-August 13. Set in Baltimore during the Revolutionary War, this new production reimagines ...

The world-premiere musical transforms a catalog of chart-toppers into a moving story of sisterhood, grief, and resilience. Three women lie motionless onstage, each isolated in her own pool of light as ...

The letter, obtained by DCTA, went to the Board of Trustees just hours before the world premiere opening of 'Crazysexycool: The TLC Musical.' After careful reflection and meaningful dialogue with the ...

CATF's 2026 season runs July 10-August 2, featuring five new plays (four of them world premieres). Named as one of the top theater festivals in the world by publications such as The New York Times, ...

Though somewhat dated, the popular musical shows how hope can often be more important than truth. Elliott Andrews as Harold Hill and the cast of ‘The Music Man.’ Photo by Marshall Meadows. Not all ...