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Baltimore native R. Eric Thomas is a prolific author, playwright and screenwriter who has two new live-theater plays premiering in Baltimore, and another in Philadelphia. (credit Kap2ure Photography)

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Writer on a roll: R. Eric Thomas on his twin Baltimore stage premieres

Tom Hall

The best-selling author and playwright discusses his two new plays opening at Baltimore Center Stage and Everyman Theatre.

The company of ArtsCentric’s production of “Dreamgirls,” being presented at Baltimore's Center Stage through Dec 19. (Photo by Bill Geenen/Center Stage)

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Rousuck's Review: "Dreamgirls" and "Fires in the Mirror" at Center Stage

J. Wynn Rousuck

Our critic's take on ArtsCentric's redo of the '80s hit musical, and Center Stage's new production of Anna Deavere Smith's 1992 play about inter-communal strife.

Anna Deavere Smith's powerful play about Black and Jewish communal strife in New York City in 1991 is getting a timely new production at Baltimore's Center Stage. (poster art credit Gilah Press)

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Views on "Fires in the Mirror": the playwright, scholars, Center Stage

Tom Hall

A closer look at Anna Deavere Smith's potent drama, now at Center Stage, about a 1991 communal conflict between Blacks and Jews in Brooklyn.

Madeline Sayet in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. production of her play "Where We Belong," presented at Baltimore's Center Stage. (photo by Jon Burklund/Zanni Productions)

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Rousuck's Review: Madeline Sayet's "Where We Belong" at Center Stage

J. Wynn Rousuck

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's production of the acclaimed one-woman show explores belonging in a global society.

(l-r) Carmen Zilles, Derek Garza, and Jon Hudsom Odom in the Center Stage production of “The Swindlers, A True-Ish Tall Tale” (©Baltimore Center Stage. Photo by J. Fannon)

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Rousuck's Review: "The Swindlers," Live At Baltimore's Center Stage

J. Wynn Rousuck

A live/live-streaming production of Noah Diaz's comedy about family trust, deception and reconciliation.

Lindsay Rico as Naomi in Miranda Rose Hall's "A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction," streaming at Baltimore Center Stage thru Aug. 8.

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"A Play For The Living...": A Climate-Crisis Wake-Up Call At Center Stage

Tom Hall

Playwright Miranda Rose Hall's world premiere is a one-woman exhortation about the personal and global consequences of climate change.

Caroline Stefanie Clay (left) and Charlayne Woodard in Woodard's "The Garden," from Baltimore Center Stage ( Photo by J Fannon)

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Rousuck's Review: "The Garden," Virtual Drama From Center Stage

J. Wynn Rousuck

A world premiere from playwright Charlayne Woodard about a Black woman and her mother.

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Pandemic Pushes Live Theater To The Digital World

Many Maryland theaters were forced to close their doors this year because of the COVID 19 pandemic. Now, some have returned with digital performances. And…