George Rose won two Tony Awards and enjoyed widespread admiration from fellow actors. He kept a South American wild cat as a pet at home and on the road. He also died a tortuous death in the…
The audacity and depth of "West Side Story" are forcefully reiterated in an up-close revival playing to packed houses at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. The production underlines the the…
In Shakespeare's day, a certain kind of gender-bending was inevitable in the theater. With women banned from acting on the English stage, the Bard had to write female roles for young male ac…
"Outside Mullingar," the slender, tender John Patrick Shanley play set in rain-soaked rural Ireland now at Everyman Theatre, gives old issues of love and family a fresh shake. There's a wee …
If you always thought noisy roosters were perkily greeting the sun, meet Odysseus " Odie, for short. He's the foul-mouthed fowl being carefully bred to kill in Eric Dufault's biting play "Ye…
If you've had it with all the usual Christmas fare, check out "The Santa Closet," an inventive one-man play written and performed by Jeffrey Solomon at Theatre Project. Just don't bring the …
In what promises to be an unusually smooth transition, Center Stage managing director Stephen Richard will retire at the end of the season, succeeded by former managing director Michael Ross…
The heart of Manhattan's theater district, which picked up the nickname the Great White Way in the 1890s because of then-dazzling electric lights, is really more like the Great Might Way. Yo…
Not all sweets are bad for you. However high the sugar content in "The Sound of Music," the revival of this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic now playing at the Hippodrome Theatre delivers imm…
It's hard enough to make a go of things when you think you know who you are and who you fancy. Things get much trickier for the young man called John in Mike Bartlett's intense and funny wor…
Anna Deavere Smith's uncanny ability to channel the people she interviews allows her to focus attention on tough issues in an unusually potent way. Witness, for example, "Let Me Down Easy," …
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's founding artistic director, Ian Gallanar, was inducted into the National Theatre Conference on Friday in New York.Founded in 1925, the organization's aims in…
Greater acceptance for the transgender community might be reflected in the Amazon TV series "Transparent" or the reception of Caitlyn Jenner. But the lopsided defeat last month for an anti-d…
Two of Baltimore's longest-lasting cultural institutions are chronicled in new books that make for engaging reads (and might find a spot on your holiday gift " or wish " list). They're both …
The musical version of Barry Levinson's 1989 film classic "Diner" is inching closer to New York. Last year, the show, with songs by Sheryl Crow, premiered at Signature Theatre in Arlington. …
Among the more than three dozen students from public arts high schools and after-school arts programs invited to a day-long symposium dubbed "Broadway at the White House" on Monday were thre…
A play couldn't be more ripped from the headlines than "X's and O's," an examination of football, the good and bad, opening this week at Center Stage. At the heart of this 90-minute work, wr…
The minute you declare a spot off-limits, a child will be determined to gain entry. For more than a century, readers have enjoyed the story of one such young snooper, Mary Lennox, heroine of…
Philip Glass, the Baltimore-born composer with the distinctive minimalist style that has won him a global fan base, turns periodically to historic figures and events to find subject matter f…
It's back, as irreverent as ever.If you weren't converted the first time "The Book of Mormon" hit the Hippodrome a couple of years ago, the high-octane production now in town just might win …
After a 15-month "quiet phase" of fundraising that brought in $21.5 million in gifts and pledges, Center Stage has gone public with a campaign to raise an additional $10.5 million to fund ex…
Cast members in the national touring production of the ever-so-subversive Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" have been known to ask each other after a performance: "Did we lose anyone tod…
It does not take a master detective to determine why "Something's Afoot," a musical from the 1970s that spoofs an Agatha Christie high-body-count whodunit, never became a big hit. The wit is…
Troy Maxson, the intensely flawed head of household at the center of August Wilson's epic play "Fences," doesn't dispense tough love. It's more like rough love. Those on the receiving end ca…
Seamus Miller didn't make it all the way through Shakespeare's earliest, most violent tragedy, "Titus Andronicus," when he first saw it at the age of 16. The place was Shakespeare's Globe in…