Working its way back to the Hippodrome Theatre for the third time in five years, the touring production of "Jersey Boys" again delivers a satisfying combination of hit parade and eventful ba…
You can take in a whole lot more than a play this season at Everyman Theatre, which seems to have developed quite an appetite for offering extras to its patrons. The company introduced a…
Politicians, pundits and protesters have had much to say about the deaths of young black men in Baltimore and other cities. Saturday night at Morgan State University, musicians will address …
"Wait Until Dark" isn't a fool-proof thriller. While the 1966 play by Frederick Knott contains ingredients for suspense " the central figure is a blind woman in Greenwich Village, N.Y., terr…
People of a certain age might still get a chill at the mention of the 1967 film "Wait Until Dark." It earned Audrey Hepburn an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Susan, a blind wo…
Long before we all found our email inboxes crammed with tantalizing news of fortunes nesting in Nigerian banks, needing only the simplest of responses before all that money could be ours, ne…
There's something irresistible about eavesdropping on great musicians jamming, away from audiences and expectations. If someone thinks to turn on a microphone during such a session, you can …
Playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht argued that art is not so much "a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." The exhibit of the 2016 Sondheim Artscape Finalists at t…
If you're at all anxious about having a midlife crisis, or still scarred from the one you experienced, you might want to steer clear of Single Carrot Theatre. The company's world-premiere pr…
John Denver, the high-on-mountains, God-thanking country boy who wrote and sang some of the most successful pop music hits of past 50 years, could make an interesting subject for a stage sho…
The Strand Theater Company, a Baltimore troupe devoted to spotlighting women's voices, has been without a fixed address for two years -- until now. With funding from a Maryland state gran…
The League of American Orchestras, representing a mostly white industry, opens a three-day national conference Thursday in a majority African-American city at a time of increased racial tens…
Two worlds greet us every day " one filled with people who have sufficient creature comforts and productive pursuits; the other populated by those we prefer not to see or brush up against, t…
Given all that Baltimore has been going through, we may need "Hairspray" more than ever. This feel-good musical, based on the 1988 John Waters film, manages to address the sobering issue of …
The audience at 710 Main Theatre, an intimate venue in Buffalo's increasingly vibrant downtown, looks to be mostly on the older side. But the crowd sounds positively teenage when it claps an…
Edna Turnblad will be arnin' some more clothes and her likewise well-fed daughter, Tracy, will be trying out again for a spot on a TV dance show when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra brings …
It was ambitious enough of Everyman Theatre to tackle two classics of the American stage, "Death of a Salesman" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," rotating in repertory. But the company upped t…
How do you follow up a remarkable season devoted solely to works by female playwrights? Well, you could try one that includes the world premiere of a musical about a female impersonator and …
If you've been hesitant to give Lyric Opera Baltimore any attention (and from the empty seats Friday night, I'd say that means a whole lot of you), the company's season-ending presentation o…
Being mocked for one's looks or unconventional point of view; stirring up crowds against a perceived threat to society " sounds like just another day in contemporary politics. But such edgy …
When it comes to tragedy, it's still hard to beat the one about "a pair of star-crossed lovers" named Romeo and Juliet, who defy their feuding families and are denied happiness by a dreadful…
Are you among the zillions of people trying desperately to get tickets to "Hamilton" in New York? Now you can be among zillions more who will no doubt be trying to get tickets when the natio…
From the astounding prelude -- 136 measures of orchestral music swirling through an E-flat major chord evoking the river Rhine-- to the profound close, when that river overflows and Valhalla…
Few guests arrive with as much baggage as Blanche DuBois when she alights from a New Orleans streetcar named Desire, transfers to another called Cemeteries and rides six blocks to reach an a…
There is never a shortage of reasons to head off to New York, but last weekend's musical activities there proved particularly enticing. I always like to see the hometown team play Carnegie H…