SOURCE: Winn, Steven. “A ‘Baltimore Waltz’ with Love and Death.” The San Francisco Chronicle (19 November 1992): D3.

In the following review, Winn provides a favorable assessment of The Baltimore Waltz.

AIDS gives the play [The Baltimore Waltz] its haunted minor key, its halting cadences and inevitable resolution, but the disease is never mentioned by name. In a comic tempo that wavers between enchantment and coy contrivance, Vogel inverts expectations by infecting a straight- arrow elementary school teacher (Anne Darragh) rather than her gay librarian brother (Rick Hickman) with a lethal disease. Accompanied, shadowed and hounded by a third actor (Kurt Reinhardt in a dazzling catalog of doctors, lovers, a Dutch boy in wooden shoes and other European prototypes), Anna and Carl take off on a whirlwind tour of the continent in search of a miracle cure. What awaits them, of course, is a last dance, a poignant farewell. The...