The finalists for the 13th annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize are local multidisciplinary artist Erick Antonio Benitez, Laurel photographer Nakeya Brown, Baltimore sculptor Sutt…
"School of Rock," the musical in session at the Hippodrome Theatre through the weekend, is for every kid (or former kid) who ever felt un-cool, un-liked. It's also for every adult who might …
The ever-expanding movie-to-stage-musical genre gained a sizable entry with "School of Rock," which opened on Broadway in 2015 and hasn't taken a recess yet. Meanwhile, the national touring …
You're probably tired of hearing about vintage literary works that seem more relevant than ever. After all, the great ones will always speak in one way or another to contemporary issues, dec…
When Everyman Theatre artistic director Vincent Lancisi saw the Off Broadway premiere production of Julia Cho's "Aubergine" in 2016, he found himself hooked from the opening monologue of the…
For its 56th season, Baltimore Center Stage will deliver a production of the Tony Award-winning musical "Fun Home" and the recent New York hit "Indecent," along with an American theater clas…
Hey, you young rockers or wannabes: On March 11, producers of "School of Rock," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the movie about a down-on-his-luck rocker who creates a band of fifth…
America's new top dog became best in a Broadway show. Flynn the bichon frise took quite a victory lap on Valentine's Day, hours after he won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show at Madison S…
There's really no laughing matter in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," the epic play that has received an impressive revival at Everyman Theatre. But at one point, as that ni…
The central character in "Waitress," the deft musical adaptation of the 2007 film now at the Hippodrome Theatre, speaks for many women when she says that she just won't settle anymore for be…
A bounty of theater productions is heating up mid-winter in Baltimore. Within the space of a few days, a hit Broadway musical and a vintage feminist play will be onstage, both gaining fresh …
The long-anticipated arrival of the uber-musical "Hamilton" in Baltimore will take place June 25 to July 21, 2019, capping a Hippodrome Theatre season spiced by current and recent Broadway s…
The world premiere of a musical based on Memphis-based Stax Records, one of the cornerstones of 1960s soul and rhythm & blues, will close out the 2017-18 season at Baltimore's Center Stage, …
There's something about "The Revolutionists," Lauren Gunderson's funny and moving play now galvanizing the stage of Everyman Theatre, that perfectly matches the tenor of our time. Blending f…
Compass Rose Theater has had some unconventional homes. The Annapolis-based professional theater company started in an empty McDonald's in Eastport in 2011. In the last four years, the theat…
Citing "a complex and troubling set of circumstances," officials of the Fells Point Corner Theatre and the Collaborative Theatre have canceled their run of "A Christmas Carol," which was sch…
Since the first time was the charm " "The Lion King" played 14 weeks to packed houses at the Hippodrome Theatre on its initial visit in 2005 " what to make of the third time for this epic Di…
Only the incurably humbug-prone would bemoan the plentiful adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" lighting up theaters this season in the Baltimore-Annapolis area. For whatever …
When the sun first rose on Pride Rock 20 years ago at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York, as a mandrill named Rafiki summoned all the animals to welcome Simba, newborn lion cub of King Mu…
Esther, the seamstress at the heart of Lynn Nottage's richly embroidered drama "Intimate Apparel" enjoying an ardent revival at Everyman Theatre, felt "as though God kissed my hands" the fir…
The gifted actor Robert Guillaume, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, had a brief time in a Baltimore spotlight during the years when his career focused primarily on theater. Guillaume starr…
It isn't always easy to get some good old suspense going in a theater, let alone keep intensifying the edginess. Stephen Mallatratt's adaption of the Susan Hill novel "The Woman in Black" ma…
Lynn Nottage gives voice in her plays to people kept on the margins of society or the news media, people confined to the footnotes of history. Her 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, "Sweat," …
Partway through "Lear," the quirky, multi-layered play by Young Jean Lee receiving a vibrant regional premiere at Single Carrot Theatre, someone says: "What are you talking about?" Audience …
The back story of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock" " the government's shut down of the theater to prevent the New York premiere; the cast trekking uptown to another venue so the show…