Since its Broadway premiere in 1964, “Fiddler on the Roof” has ranked among the most beloved and most performed musicals. Fueled by a bevy of indelible songs — music by Jerry Bock, lyr…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMEarly in “Dancing at Lughnasa,” the finely textured memory play by Brian Friel receiving an effective revival at Everyman Theatre, the narrator sets the scene — a rural Irish home shar…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:00AMStephanie Ybarra, director of special artistic projects at New York’s Public Theater, has been named artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage. Ybarra will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah, who …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:30AMBack in the days when Everyman Theatre was located in cramped quarters on North Charles Street, the company periodically inserted modest musical revues into the lineup. I remember enjoyable …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 11:24AMSingle Carrot Theatre, the ambitious troupe that has stirred up Baltimore’s cultural life with provocative productions since 2007, is facing a financial crisis. The company has issued a pl…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:20PMComplaints and taunts aimed at immigrants. A sex scandal involving a high government official. Intense partisan bickering fueled by short-fused tempers. Tired of being bombarded with all tho…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 04:20PMThe final performance is not until June 10, but Karen Hartman’s “The Book of Joseph” is already Everyman Theatre’s highest-grossing production. The previous record-holder for the com…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:25PMWorking as a reporter for the Baltimore News American and WBAL-TV decades ago, Richard Hollander routinely followed leads. But when a dreadful incident in his own life — the 1986 death of …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:30PMEerie wails of coyotes, mixing with the ceaseless drone of crickets, might conjure up something of the old, rugged American West. But heard from inside a suburban Southern California home, t…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:00AMThe ingredients in “Aubergine,” Julia Cho’s play receiving an effective staging at Everyman Theatre, are not all that unusual — cups of relationship issues and family tensions, dashe…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:00PM“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 …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMThe 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 to…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMYou’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, d…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:00AMWhen 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 …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:40PMFor 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 thea…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMHey, 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 f…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:45AMThere’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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:10PMThe 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 …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 08:55AMA 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 …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:05PMThe 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 Broadw…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:30AMThere’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. Bl…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMSince 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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:15PMOnly 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 wha…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:10PMWhen 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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:05PMEsther, 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�…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:35PMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:10PMIt 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 Bla…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:15PMLynn 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,…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 04:10PMPartway 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?” A…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:25AMThe 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 s…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:50PMNo 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 music…
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