SOURCE: Evans, Everett. “Actors Theatre Stages Worthy ‘Baltimore Waltz’.” The Houston Chronicle (21 March 2001): 1.

In the following favorable review, Evans commends the originality of The Baltimore Waltz.

Though the field has grown crowded in recent years, The Baltimore Waltz remains one of the most original and personal plays dealing with illness and mortality in general, AIDS in particular.

Paula Vogel wrote the free-wheeling yet heart-wrenching fantasy in response to her brother Carl's death from AIDS-related pneumonia in 1988. The premiere production was a collaboration between New York's Circle Repertory Theatre and Houston's Alley Theatre that played here in spring 1992, shortly after its debut off-Broadway.

Vogel since has become even better known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive. The Baltimore Waltz now returns in a sensitive rendition at Actors Theatre of Houston.

In Vogel's imaginative treatment, reality is turned upside-down. It is the schoolteacher sister Anna who is...