Tuesday, May 27, 2025
“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, te…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:31PMSunday, May 11, 2025
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:25PMMonday, April 7, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:19PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
“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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:02PMSunday, March 30, 2025
“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 (Art…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:31PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Maestro Heyward introduced the program as a musical reflection on life. The first selection, Antonín Dvořák’s “Carnival Overture” (1891), is the second in a trilogy of overtures tit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:53PMSunday, February 23, 2025
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:57PM“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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:29PMMonday, February 10, 2025
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.…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:06PMSunday, February 9, 2025
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 t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:29PMSunday, January 26, 2025
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:40PMSaturday, January 11, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:20AMSunday, December 15, 2024
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:11PMThursday, December 12, 2024
“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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:51PMAgatha 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 tremend…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:31AMMonday, December 2, 2024
“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 Mus…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:42PMSunday, November 24, 2024
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:07PMMonday, July 15, 2024
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 a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:04PMFriday, June 28, 2024
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…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:35PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The BSO’s final concert of the 2023-2024 season reminded me of the four traditional requirements for the bridal attire at a wedding: something old, something new, something borrowed, somet…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:41PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Did you know that the film “Lawrence of Arabia” exceeds the running time of “Gone with the Wind” by ONE minute and therefore holds the record as the longest film to win the Academy A…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:43PM“The Importance of Being Earnest,” a farcical comedy by playwright Oscar Wilde, premiered at London’s St. James Theatre in 1895. Due to a notorious scandal and Oscar Wilde’s ensuing …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:37AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
“Prohibition and the Roaring ‘20s,” co-produced by Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists, was an interesting program of music, vocals, and visuals recalling the era of bathtub gin, spe…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:52PM“The Hot Wing King,” by Katori Hall, premiered off-Broadway at the Manhattan Signature Theatre in 2020. Due to Covid restrictions, it had a limited run but won the Pulitzer Prize for Dra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:02PMFriday, April 5, 2024
“Beauty and the Beast” marks the first time Disney produced one of its own film adaptations for the Broadway stage. The book by Linda Woolverton is adapted from the 1991 animated musical…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:59PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Hubba Hubba” marks the return engagement of the 2023 production by Alex and Olmsted, puppeteer performance artists Sarah Olmsted Thomas and Alex Verdon, with lighting by Tori Munoz. They d…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:37AMSunday, March 24, 2024
One of the first documented book clubs was formed by Anne Hutchinson aboard a ship bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 in order to discuss sermons on Puritan beliefs Although book…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:34PMFriday, February 23, 2024
“Peter Pan” is a musical based on a 1904 play, “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” by Sir James M. Barrie and his subsequent 1911 novel, “Peter and Wendy.” The play…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:14PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Congratulations to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for programming a most interesting evening of music exploring the ever-translucent boundaries between classical and popular music in the c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:50PMMonday, February 5, 2024
“Crumbs from the Table of Joy” is one of the earliest plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage. The play premiered off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in 1995 as part of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:58AM 
