No crashing chandelier. No need for one. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies," the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera," offers its own distinctive attractions, visual and musical.Judging…
On the day 80 years ago that a pro-labor, anti-monopoly/corruption/greed stage work was about to be premiered in New York, a wind from the federal government blew and down came the productio…
When it comes to feuding, no one did it better than the Hatfield and McCoy clans in a region between West Virginia and Kentucky during the 1870s and '80s, holding grudges and, at periodic in…
If you ever doubted that the truth can be stranger than fiction, you need only take a cursory glance at the celebrated case of love and espionage involving mid-level French diplomat Bernard …
If you judged by the 2015 revival on Broadway, the late Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play "The Heidi Chronicles" must be passe.The short-lived production lasted…
As part of The Baltimore Sun's Fall Arts Guide, we're picking the best arts activities coming to the area this fall. Here's the best of what the theater scene has to offer. For more, see bes…
Even though she's been doing it for a few years now, moving 100 people and 20 truckloads of equipment and supplies into a new town almost every week is a feat Heather Reilly never takes for …
North Avenue received an extra jolt last year when the theater troupe ArtsCentric started to make its home base in the already humming arts hub Motor House and delivered a big, buoyant produ…
Everyman Theatre's pairing series will return for its 2017-2018 season. The theater's "Taste of Everyman" series, which launched in 2015, pairs food and drinks with the theme of its shows. T…
Come October, there will be a lot more room in Baltimore to be funny. The Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), bringing unscripted laughs to Charm City since 2004, will be moving from the intimate …
Stillpointe Theatre, which has a fine track record of reviving musicals, has taken a fresh look at "Tick, Tick … Boom," an autobiographical work from 1990 by Jonathan Larson, written six y…
The term "hero" gets tossed around so liberally these days that it feels good to be reminded of someone who fits the bill thoroughly " Thurgood Marshall, the subject of a one-man play enjoyi…
Classical music concerts and theater productions might be fewer during summer months in Baltimore, but there's still a lot of activity on the calendar. Eclectic activity, even, as this weeke…
If you missed the Broadway production of "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" " it opened at Studio 54 last October and closed in mid-January " or want to enjoy it again, the Hippodrome Theatre wil…
Infinity Theatre in Annapolis is opening its season with an engaging musical tribute in Dean Regan's "A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline." It was two seasons ago that Infinity presented, with gr…
For some theater companies, every summer brings a welcome opportunity to step outside and put a literal spin on Shakespeare's all-the-world's-a-stage notion. In the Baltimore-Annapolis area,…
The 2016-17 Broadway season produced one blockbuster revival, "Hello Dolly"Â starring Bette Midler, an eye-popping show so singularly retro, fresh, spectacular and joyous as to render its …
"Dear Evan Hansen," the emotionally charged and wholly original musical about a troubled high school student whose very human travails explode over the heartless channels of social media, em…
Gilman School graduate Bradley King won a Tony Award for best lighting design of a musical on Sunday night for his work on "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812." It was the first Tony …
All the streets will be a stage when Single Carrot Theatre welcomes audiences aboard a bus for the world premiere of its traveling production "Promenade: Baltimore," starting June 2. For ab…
And you thought the secret of the universe was deep. Nope. It all boils down to just doors and sardines. This piece of wisdom gets dispatched early on in "Noises Off," the intricately stitch…
Sometimes, you just feel like a farce. That time appears to be now, at least in Baltimore, where Everyman Theatre reports extra interest in its production of Michael Frayn's farcical romp of…
It's one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-that ideas that actually worked.In 2004, two friends in New York " Baltimore-born Jeff Bowen and Alabama native Hunter Bell " spotted an announcement …
Andy Karl, the actor who grew up in Timonium and got the theater bug starring in a musical at Towson High School, has received a Tony Award nomination as best leading actor in a musical for …
Try to remember the first time you encountered "The Fantasticks," the world's longest-running musical. (The original 1960 off-Broadway production ran 42 years; the 2006 New York revival will…