For a few terrifying minutes in 1850 as she stared down the barrel of a gun, Mathilde Hennes feared she was about to be returned from the home she had found in northeast Mexico to the Louisi…
The second season under the baton of Jonathon Heyward reflects the conductor's determination to rethink what the symphony plays, where it performs and who it celebrates on stage.
Though Lynn Nottage is a highly respected, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, she hasn't yet broken through to the upper echelon of such scribes as Tony Kushner or Lin-Manuel Miranda. And th…
Howard County's Terry Eberhardt is the new executive director of the Graves Foundation, a venture the opera singer plans to use to help transition her career.
The national tours of "& Juliet" and "Life of Pi" will debut in Baltimore as a result of the 2022 tax credit program for live theater.
The cutbacks afflicting Maryland's largest regional theater in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are hardly unique to Baltimore.
Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed Thursday as Baltimore Center Stage's next artistic dire…
This Tony Award-winning musical has been almost perfectly cast by director Joseph Ritsch. Once Rep Stage shuts down, Howard County will lose its only fully professional live theater.
When the winners of the Tony Awards are announced July 11 on CBS, Baltimore theater lovers will have at least three reasons to watch.
The offstage drama at Baltimore Center Stage, which included a mass resignation of board members and withdrawn donations, mirrors the ongoing tensions around diversity, equity and inclusion …
One local theater is expanding, another has unfurled its lineup of musicals for next season, and one longtime stalwart is shutting down.
As a high school senior in 2010, Jonathon Heyward wrote that his "huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra." That dream becomes real in September with the…
Beginning April 1, Center Stage will be led by Ken-Matt Martin, the newly appointed interim artistic director who hails from Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.
A single piece of sheet music for a popular song from the 1800s appears to bear the signature of Baltimore's master of macabre, but things are not always as they appear.
The group founded nearly 20 years ago by three Morgan State students is hitting its stride, still committed to the mission of passing on to a new generation the tools for a successful perfor…
Baltimore's theaters and concert halls are requiring mask-wearing and proof of vaccination as they welcome patrons back for in-person live performances.
Both Lyric administrators and a family spokeswoman say this ends the dispute and they will move on.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Tuesday that it will stage two free outdoor community concerts in June conducted by outgoing music director Marin Alsop. Other arts and cultural in…
The character Healthy Holly plays a pivotal role in the Single Carrot Theatre's new "Healthy Holly's Hidden Hideaway" production.
The Sun checked in with the five largest stage companies in the Baltimore area to find out what they've had to reschedule, what they're offering now and when they hope to once again welcome …
If you're hanging around Everyman Theatre this summer, you might hear the gritty growl of a buzzsaw or the dull thump of hammers. Those are the sounds a theater company makes when it expands…
The acclaimed Baltimore-born actor Andre De Shields received his third career nomination Tuesday for an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award. De Shields was nominated for best featured actor in a m…
Intimacy choreographer Chelsea Pace carefully designed every detail of a passionate embrace on stage between two young actors, down to the way they tilted their heads. "First, there's a shor…
Taye Diggs' megawatt smile will be seen in Baltimore this fall. But the Broadway star and former cast member of TV's "Empire" will be behind the curtain for a change. Diggs will make his dir…
On Friday night, Mark and Sandra Laken sat side by side in Everyman Theatre, where they have dedicated a pair of front row seats to the memory of their late son. They watched the opening nig…