![]() Members of Baltimore's vibrant theater community, including the Baltimore Theatre Project, the Black Cherry Puppet Theater, Everyman Theatre, the Fell's Point Corner Theatre, and the Vagabond Theatre produce everything from avant-garde puppetry to Shakespeare. In addition, Maryland is home to a variety of smaller professional and community theaters, ranging from classical to experimental.Ĭenter Stage at night, 700 North Calvert St., Baltimore, Maryland. Maryland's two principal theaters are Baltimore Center Stage (the State Theater) and Olney Theater (the State Summer Theater). © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Maryland Theater MARYLAND AT A GLANCE ARTS THEATER How could somebody so charming and charismatic by anything less than top dog? ![]() He takes his natural comic gregariousness and turns it into a weapon against anybody who thinks Irving isn’t the apex predator he believes himself to be. What’s briefly onscreen is always more intriguing than what’s happening onstage, which, to be honest, is an obvious downside to putting on a play about photography.ĭespite the material’s inherent weaknesses, Lane is strong as ever as an older and somewhat more contented Willy Loman. Larry projects his photos (the real ones Sultan took) onto Michael Yeargan’s set, which looks like the first hole at a mini-golf course, and describes them. Most of the acting comes with a wink.Īfter about a half hour, the story settles into repetitive marital bickering. ![]() That’s why no scene sizzles - the characters are constantly aware of the 1,500 ticket-buyers over there. Parents, it turns out, enjoy being around their kids.ģ Larry (Danny Burstein) discovers hundreds of old Super 8 film reels from his West Coast childhood in a closet Julieta Cervantes, 2023Īll three speak directly to the audience a lot, and make so many asides that they cease being asides and instead become the main event. They’re annoyed - “It’s like he’s been investigating us!,” mom says - but they humor him. Larry begins dropping in on them from San Francisco a couple weekends a month with his camera and lighting equipment to illuminate their lies: That dad’s corporate success as a razor blade salesman has made him happy that mom sees her lucrative real estate job as just a little hobby rather than a bread-winning need that both have been mad about each other their entire marriage. Such is the case with poke-and-prod Larry, who loves nothing more than to criticize the home lives of his poor aging parents. When a character earnestly speaks a sentence like the “fetishizing the family” comment, they become instantly annoying. Julieta Cervantes, 2023īattering home the point, he tells the audience he decided to chronicle his parents’ “American Dream” during the 1980s because “resurgent conservatives were fetishizing the image of family.” White’s obnoxious dinner guest of a play, borrowing from the passages in Sultan’s book, is filled with academic observations that are insightful to read, but that a person would never actually say. When you occasionally laugh at their jokes, you briefly forget that you’re bored.Īfter discovering hundreds of old Super 8 film reels from his West Coast childhood in a closet, photography professor Larry (Danny Burstein) decides to begin capturing his mother and father’s day-to-day life through his lens - every banal chore and unflattering nap - to prove that nostalgia for the 1950s is misplaced.ģ Larry (Danny Burstein) takes photos of his mom (Zoe Wanamaker) and dad (Nathan Lane). ![]() It’s a drama-free paraphrase of Sultan’s essays punctuated by Nathan Lane and Zoe Wanamaker, as Irving and Jean respectively, wisecracking about being old. “Pictures,” directed by Bartlett Sher as an afterthought, is not really a play at all, so much as one guy’s musings about the middle class. As envisioned theatrically, these are the sort of people who you wish would shut up in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. What’s been schlepped to Broadway, however, is the opposite of a striking still whose subjects entice you with their mystery, conceal a secret behind the eyes and leave you wanting to know more about them. Those moving snaps are suffused with sensitivity and vibrant life. “Pictures From Home,” the fatigued new Broadway play by Sharr White that opened Thursday night at Studio 54, is based on the celebrated photographs the late Larry Sultan took over the years of private moments between his California mom and dad. Running time: One hour and 45 minutes with no intermission. ![]()
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