Thursday, April 23, 2015
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…
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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 of …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:01PMFor 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…
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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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:20PMJust 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:06PMOn 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 …
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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…
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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.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
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.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:49PMKevin 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…
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There was something wonderfully reassuring about Renée Fleming's recital Monday night at the Kennedy Center.
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Starring in 'King Hedley II' at Arena Stage through March 8Starring in 'King Hedley II' at Arena Stage through March 8
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid," the mega-selling series of illustrated books by Maryland-born cartoonist and author Jeff Kinney, debuted in 2004 and has inspired a popular Web version and three movi…
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Oscar Wilde might have said, as he did about books, that operas are "well-written, or badly written -- that is all." And he probably would have considered "Oscar," now receiving its East Coa…
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As she will be the first to remind you, Mama Nadi is "running a business, not a mission." She only takes on new mouths to feed when they can help contribute to the income of her establishmen…
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Opera version of Austen novel has score by Jonathan DoveOpera version of Austen novel has score by Jonathan Dove
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The Kennedy Center has poured a lot of resources into a perfectly pleasant, not entirely satisfying production of the Lerner and Loewe musical "Gigi." Next stop is Broadway. It may need an e…
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During a quick visit to the Kennedy Center Saturday night, I got to hear a new opera and an under-appreciated symphony by Tchaikovsky. Two hours well spent, I'd say.
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The national touring production of the hit musical "Chicago" heading to the Hippodrome Theatre in March will feature John O'Hurley -- a.k.a. J. Peterman on "Seinfeld" -- as the sneaky lawyer…
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Those perky missionaries in their white shirts and black ties will return to Baltimore to spread humor, or offense, once again.
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