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Sharon Carter Brown as Carrie Watts in 'The Trip to Bountiful' at Arena Players.

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Rousuck's Review: 'The Trip to Bountiful' at Arena Players

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews 'The Trip to Bountiful,' in a new production by Baltimore's Arena Players.

Isaiah Bailey (left) as The Phantom and Jordan Lee Gilbert as Christine Daae, in the North American tour of 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

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Rousuck's Review: 'The Phantom' begins another tour at Hippodrome

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new North American touring production of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre.

Bruce Randolph Nelson as 'Serge' in the Everyman Theatre production of 'Art.'

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Rousuck's Review: 'Art' at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre

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Midday's theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of Yasmina Reza's 'Art' at the Everyman Theatre.

Liza Jessie Peterson wrote and stars in "The Peculiar Patriot," her one-woman show at Baltimore Center Stage about mass incarceration.

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Rousuck's Review: Peterson solos in 'Peculiar Patriot' at Center Stage

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Liza Jessie Peterson's powerful one-woman show about mass incarceration, at Baltimore's Center Stage.

Joe Carlson and Marissa Chaffee in "Jane Austen's Persuasion" at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

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Rousuck's Review: 'Jane Austen's Persuasion' at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's production of "Jane Austen's Persuasion," a new adaptation by Sarah Rose Kearns.

Emily Classen as Hamlet in Mercury Theater's production of Hamlet/Black Parade.

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Rousuck's Review: 'Hamlet/Black Parade' at the Mercury Theater

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Mott & Bailey's new mash-up production of the Shakespeare tragedy and the alt-rock classic by My Chemical Romance, now at Baltimore's Mercury Theater performance space.

Helen Krushinski and Zachary Keller star in the touring production of “Water for Elephants," now onstage at Baltimpore's Hippodrome Theatre.

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Rousuck's Review: 'Water for Elephants' at The Hippodrome

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new touring production of "Water for Elephants," the hit Broadway musical now playing at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre.

Jossan Robinson (left) and Aaron Watkins (right) play brothers in Spotlighters Theatre's production of "Topdog/Underdog."

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Rousuck's Review: Spotlighters Theatre's 'Topdog/Underdog'

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews a new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog," at Spotlighters Theatre through Oct. 12.

Chinai Routté (left) and Louis E. Davis in Everyman Theater's production of "The Piano Lesson."

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Rousuck's Review: August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson' at Everyman

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Piano Lesson, at Everyman Theater.

Scott Gilmour, David Rowen and the company of North American Premiere of CEILIDH.

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Rousuck's Review: a Scottish "Ceilidh" at M&T Bank Exchange

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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the lively Scottish musical "Ceilidh" (pronounced KAY-lee) now playing at the M&T Bank Exchange performance space next to the Hippodrome Theater.