Brainstorm, the "almost annual" short play festival presented by the Baltimore DIYÂ troupe Glass Mind Theatre, involves creating new works around a given theme. The 2015 festival in June w…
In 1944, two white girls, ages 7 and 11, were found beaten to death in the rural town of Alcolu, S.C. An African-American boy, who said he had seen the two riding bikes on their way to look …
Everyman Theatre artistic director Vincent Lancisi summarizes the goal for next season, the company's 25th anniversary, in a short phrase: "We're going to up our game."
Revolutions leave deep scars, the deepest from when they don't achieve all their expectations. Same for relationships.
Like some other Baltimore theater troupes this week, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company opened up its doors for a free performance to help provide an artistic response to a stressful Baltimore a…
Dame Edna, uber-megastar, told a packed house in Washington's National Theatre that she had been eagerly looking forward to performing in "the intellectual capital of the United States" -- b…
When new-to-acting singer Mitchell Brunings performs the title role in the world premiere of the musical "Marley" at Center Stage next month, he will be surrounded by a large ensemble o…
Not all details of the 2015-2016 theater season are yet known, but a remarkable trend has already emerged in the Baltimore-Washington area -- a fresh emphasis on female playwrights to addres…
The last thing 91-year-old Vera Joseph expects to find in her Greenwich Village apartment at 3 in the morning is her grandson standing at the doorway with his knapsack-laden bicycle, fresh f…
Center Stage is going to college for a semester. While its downtown Baltimore venue undergoes extensive renovations beginning in January 2016, the theater company will temporarily move produ…
When Chesapeake Shakespeare Company decided to open a new home in Baltimore , an early goal was to establish an annual production of "Romeo and Juliet" for local school kids. The company st…
For the third visit to Baltimore's Hippodrome , the enormously successful musical "Wicked" delivers the goods. The uninitiated should have no trouble figuring out what all the fuss is about…
Single Carrot Theatre has returned to the work of theater maverick Charles Mee, who doesn't just create plays of genre-stretching originality, but also publishes them online so anyone can ha…
Just as the classical music world was shaken up by advocates for playing Bach and Mozart on historically authentic instruments, the theater world has received a jolt from advocates for perfo…
For a country founded on revolution, ours tends to be awfully leery of the concept. Americans who entertain thoughts of overthrowing anything here are typically viewed with intense suspicion…
The language of William Shakespeare is just about universally recognized for its expressive richness, but exactly how he heard it articulated on the stage, the way it sounded, is much less u…
Mitchell Brunings, a Dutch singer whose performance of a Bob Marley song on the reality TV show "The Voice of Holland" two years ago brought him international attention, will perform the lea…
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, which has been enjoying a well-received inaugural season in its comfy downtown Baltimore digs, will offer the light and dark sides of the Shakespearean cannon…
On paper, the line "Are they still there?" looks beyond ordinary. But in the context of Noel Coward's evergreen comedy from 1941, "Blithe Spirit," it's should get a chuckle when delivered by…
After an unusual public airing of concerns by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians, BSO board of directors chair Barbara Bozzuto said Monday that channels of communication within the organ…
If our culture had managed to advance sufficiently since 1975, when the biting musical "Chicago" landed in Broadway, the show might be considered just harmless, lively entertainment now.
There is just no underestimating the importance of Oscar Wilde.
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Baltimore's mayor is used to the spotlight, but not quite like this. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will appear onstage in cameo roles in the hit musical "Chicago" when it comes to town next week.
Kevin Spacey, the actor most in the spotlight these days for his wicked performance in "House of Cards," will be singled out at the 2015 Olivier Awards ceremony April 12 at London's Royal Op…