John Williams, composer and conductor, is widely known as one of the greatest writers of music for the movies. Over the past seven decades, he has composed the music for some of Hollywood’…
Featuring Terence Blanchard (trumpet), James Genus (bass), Lionel Loueke (guitar, vocals), and Jaylen Petinaud (drums). Herbie Hancock is an iconic American jazz pianist, composer, keyboardi…
Lea Salonga, known as the “Pride of the Phillippines,” is an internationally renowned stage, screen and TV actress, vocalist, concert and recording artist, who has been entertaining audi…
Sr. Kathleen Marie Engers, founder and executive producer of Pumpkin Theatre, passed away peacefully at Stella Maris on June 10, 2026, at the age of 101. She founded Pumpkin Theatre in 1967 …
“A Beautiful Noise” is a jukebox musical based on the life and music of singer/composer Neil Diamond, with lyrics by him and various artists, and a book by Anthony McCarten. The producer…
Featuring vocalists Jim Hogan, Curtis Bannister, Katie Scarlett Swaney, and violinists Jonathan Carney and Holly Jenkins. The first ovation for this program occurred immediately when former …
“Kimberly Akimbo”, with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, is based on Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 play of the same name. The show premiered Off-Broadway in…
"Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike" (VSMS) is a comedic play written by Christopher Durang which premiered at Princeton's McCarter Theatre in 2012. It moved to Off-Broadway and transferred…
Featuring Music Director and pianist Brent Frederick and Joe Bergamini on drums. Doo wop is a type of rhythm and blues music that dates back to the 1940s and was developed within African-Ame…
Alex and Olmsted is an internationally-acclaimed puppet theatre and film-making company based in Maryland. Composed of artists Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas (husband and wife), the du…
Featuring vocalists Ender Thomas and Jackie Mendez and instrumentalists José Sibaja on trumpet, Luisito Quintero on percussion, and Brian Czach on drums. This BSO Pops concert was a tribute…
"RENT" is a modern rock musical, with music, lyrics, and book by Johnathan Larson, based on the 1896 opera "La Boheme" by Giacomo Puccini. The first production was in 1993 at the New York Th…
Everyman Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of "Dawn," written by playwright Tuyết Thị Phạm and directed by Seonjae Kim. Phạm is also an associate artist…
Once again Baltimore is the first stop in the national tour of a major Broadway musical, this one based on a novel by a former Baltimore resident! Kait Kerrigan adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's…
Featuring vocalists Chester Gregory, Darren Lorenzo, and Michael Lynche, with instrumentalists Douglas Marriner (drums) and Tim Lappin (electric bass). This BSO Pops program presented a musi…
"Wicked," subtitled "The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz," with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, is adapted from Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, "Wicked: The …
Happenstance Theatre, founded in 2006 by co-artistic directors Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, is partially funded by the Maryland State Arts Council and has won several Helen Hayes Awards …
"Deceived" is a suspense-filled thriller written in 2024 by Johanna Wright and Patty Jamieson and adapted for modern audiences from the 1938 play "Gaslight" by Patrick Hamilton. As a result …
Leslie Odom, Jr., jazz recording artist, composer, author, and star of stage, film, and television, returned to Baltimore for a program of holiday music in the new "Live at the Meyerhoff" se…
Featuring vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Ryan Shaw, and background vocalists Calli Graver and Rajdulari The word "icon" generally refers to a person widely admired for influence or significance…
Alex and Olmsted (the husband and wife team of Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas), an internationally acclaimed puppetry and physical theater company, is now in residency at Baltimore The…
"The Phantom of the Opera," with music by Andrew Lloyd- Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and book by Lloyd-Webber and Stilgoe, is based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux,…
This musical celebration of Halloween started even before the first note was played. The Meyerhoff lobby staff, dressed as Count Dracula, greeted audience members, and the members of the orc…
"The Peculiar Patriot" is a one-woman show written and performed by actress, playwright, author, poet, activist, and youth advocate, Liza Jessie Peterson. The Old Globe Theatre commissioned …
Pink Martini has given concerts all over the world, and the vocalists sing in more than 25 different languages. Thomas Lauderdale named the group after his fondness for mid-20th century cock…
"Water For Elephants " The Broadway Musical" is based on the 2006 historical romance novel by Sara Gruen, with music and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co. (a New York-based indie-folk band and th…
Mary Jane "Mae" West's career as a show business entertainer spanned more than seven decades. Her early career performing in vaudeville and theater was based in New York, and a later career …
Everyman's 35th season opening production and entry into Baltimore's August Wilson Celebration is "The Piano Lesson." It is part of his American Century Cycle, reflecting the Black exper…
The final concert of the 2024-2025 season brought audiences a complete concert version of Verdi's "Aida" performed in Italian with English supertitles and featuring an all-star cast: Angel B…
"Chicago the Musical," originally subtitled "A Musical Vaudeville," with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, is set in the 1920s Jazz Age and based on a …
"John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only," a play written by Baltimore native Matthew Weiner, a graduate of The Park School, marks its world premiere at BCS. Mr. Weiner is an author, actor, televi…
Maestra Hicks, a specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, introduced this final BSO pops concert of the season. She explained that the scores selected for representation in th…
It's always a pleasure to welcome back Jack Everly, the BSO's former principal pops conductor, for one of his well-received programs of the Great American Songbook. For this performance he b…
"The Music Man," with music, lyrics, and book by Meredith Willson, is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, the story follows the tra…
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a three-act play by Edward Albee, first staged on Broadway in 1962. It won Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Actress (Uta Hagen), and Best Actor (Arthur Hi…
Maestro Heyward introduced the program as a musical reflection on life. The first selection, AntonÃn Dvořák's "Carnival Overture" (1891), is the second in a trilogy of overtures ti…
Maestro Enrico Lopez-Yanez, an active composer/arranger as well as principal and guest pops conductor of several symphony orchestras, is known for his collaboration with many popular artists…
"Everything That Never Happened," written by Sarah B. Mantell, was developed at the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, Yale School of Drama (2017) and through The Playwrights Realm Writing Fell…
Written just before the pandemic by playwright Eboni Booth, "Primary Trust" was developed at the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference and as part of the IGNITE CHICAGO Festival of New Plays. It …
With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, "9 to 5: The Musical" is based on the 1980 film of the same name. After tryouts in Los Angeles, the show transferred to Br…
This concert, a Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists co-production, featured vocalists Shayna Steele, Chester Gregory, and Terron Brooks with instrumentalists Chris Kuffner (bass) and Jacob…
In 1885 James Whitcomb Riley wrote a poem titled "The Elf Child" in honor of Mary "Allie" Smith, an orphan who lived in his household. The poem's title was eventually changed (via typographi…
This concert, the third in a series of holiday offerings, introduces Baltimore audiences to William Langley, the newly appointed Staff Conductor of the BSO. In this position he will have a b…
"Life of Pi" is a play adapted for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti from the 2001 philosophical adventure novel by Canadian author, Yann Martel. The novel won the Man Booker Prize in 2002. An…
This concert, the first in a series of holiday-themed programs, features soloists Sherezade Panthaki (soprano), Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Enrico Lagasca (bass), and…
Agatha Christie's 1943 British play "And Then There Were None" was based on her 1939 mystery novel of the same name. In her autobiography, she says, "I wrote the book after a tremendous amou…
"Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start." Those introductory lyrics to "Do-Re-Mi," the most popular song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." were firs…
This concert is a tribute to the collaboration of two African-American composer-pianists, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington and William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn, who wrote and arranged many cl…
Felicia Curry, vocalist and a member of Everyman's Resident Company, presents an evening of cabaret entertainment in a return to the popular summer cabaret series which Everyman featured at …
Michael Feinstein, pianist and vocalist, is a music revivalist and archivist of the Great American Songbook. He is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Pasadena Orchestra and the Artistic Dir…
