243 stories by "Tim Smith"
When it comes to evaluating pure enchantment in opera, Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" would probably top most lists. If more companies would give Massenet's "Cendrillon" its due, this exq…
Fifty years ago, Broadway audiences were introduced to Tevye, an impoverished milkman in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka at the turn of the last century. This lovable guy, who was on speaking…
Back in the day, the marketing of suspense movies sometimes included asking viewers to keep a secret. A typical example, from the trailer for "Strait -Jacket," the now cult-camp classic from…
Two musical worlds will collide this weekend. Concert Artists of Baltimore, a valued contributor to the area's classical scene for 28 years, will team up with the Baltimore Rock Opera Societ…
There are certain indestructible elements to Puccini's "La Boheme" -- the deeply lyrical music, for a start, not to mention the compact, endearing plot about young love and loss -- but every…
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Neither monster nor buffoon, Richard II could have become a revered monarch of 14th-century England. He had taste, which led to significant arts patronage, and good manners " some say he inv…
Now that the bicentennial observances of the Battle of Baltimore and penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner" are over, it's worth getting back to the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. There i…
When audiences file into Everyman Theatre for performances of George Brant's gripping one-act, one-actor play "Grounded," they are greeted with the sight of a figure sitting motionless onsta…
The average, certifiably sane person might consider the idea of writing a musical about mental illness to be a manifestation of mental illness. Composer Tom Kitt and lyricist/librettist Bria…
There is a promising idea at the heart of "I Love Lucy Live on Stage," the heavy-on-the-nostalgia production now at the Hippodrome.
Sixty-three years ago this week — at 9 p.m. Oct. 15, 1951 — TV viewers got their first look at a situation comedy on CBS that, in short order, would become part of the country's …
Hello. My name is Tim. And I'm an "I Love Lucy"-holic.
It is impossible to avoid thinking about Sarah Kane's suicide by hanging in 1999 at the age of 28 when encountering the British playwright's final work, "4.48 Psychosis."
Iron Crow Theatre presents an effectively moody staging of "4.48 Psychosis" the last play Sarah Kane wrote before committing suicide.
Judging by the spicy, sophisticated production of David Ives' "Venus in Fur," it's going to be an interesting year for the Columbia-based professional company Rep Stage, now in its first ful…
David Ives' "Venus in Fur," a play spiced with sadomasochistic desires, gets a sturdy workout from Columbia-based Rep Stage directed by Joseph W. Ritsch.
The last time Mike Tyson was on stage at a Broadway theater, it was four years ago and he nearly wrecked what was left of his boxing career by biting Lennox Lewis on the leg during a press c…
