Did theater panic at the invention of movies? Did it happen again with television? I feel like every other year (pandemic notwithstanding) there are a
Winter Haunts – The First Thing That Happens, Hamlet
BY THE BAD ORACLE Late winter isn’t exactly the right time for ghost stories, despite the uneasiness of transitional seasons, but Baltimore small theater is
Lizzie: The Musical – A Frenzied Climaxe
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Lizzie Andrew Borden, true-crime buff’s darling and (seeming) center of Lizzie: The Musical, was acquitted of the murder of
Perfect Arrangement – The Style At the Time
Photography by Shealyn Jae A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement, as directed by Patrick Gorirossi, zips and zings along so merrily for
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Don’t Stoppard
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Tom Stoppard was 27 when he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and it shows. It’s definitely got that
Frankenstein – I Go To Pieces
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, like most Important And Classic Novels, really only has like one good part. A mad
Jerusalem – I’ll Cry if I Want to
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE The first few moments into FPCT’s Jerusalem are absolutely horrible. A disheveled man swans and swaggers his way across
Thank You, Dad – So Terribly Betrayed
A REVIEW BY THE BAD ORACLE Lance Bankerd doesn’t so much play Jim Jones (the cult leader who was the direct cause of death of
