Sunday, March 2, 2025
State analysts are recommending that the legislature cut the arts budget by 1.5% next year-- but maintain a controversial funding formula.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
The local arts scene is reacting to President Donald Trump’s efforts to redraw the national arts landscape during the first month of his second term — initiatives that, if successful, ar…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:19PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
About 600 Maryland arts lovers will lobby state legislators Thursday to reject a plan they fear could wreak havoc on the state's arts ecosystem.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:49AMFriday, January 31, 2025
After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance in College Park.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:11AMMonday, December 30, 2024
Funding for arts education in Maryland public schools continues to be fraught with pitfalls, and the Blueprint for Maryland's Future education plan complicates it further.
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke Wednesday about his new book, 'The Message,' in which he outlines similarities between America's legacy of slavery and Israel's treatment of Palestinians living…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:03PMThursday, September 12, 2024
When the world premiere of 'Oh Happy Day!' opens at this fall at Center Stage, Baltimore will make its second mega-stride in two years on its industry comeback tour.
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By casting actors in their 50s as the quartet of young lovers, this production could be the Elizabethan era's version of 'The Golden Bachelorette.'
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Parkway Theatre operators unveiled a plan Tuesday night that would reinvent the 1915 Baltimore movie palace as an incubator for filmmakers and gamers.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:22AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
A lot is riding on the success of a new plan to convert the theater into a multipurpose venue. The outcome will impact the Station North neighborhood and have implications for taxpayers who …
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"Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner will debut his play about John Wilkes Booth at Center Stage, and playwright Jordan E. Cooper, fresh from Broadway, comes to Baltimore to stage his newest wor…
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While "The Wiz" received zero nominations, other nods Tuesday went to such familiar faces as David Byrne, Amy Ryan, Corey Stoll and Emilio Sosa. The winners will be announced June 14.
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Though it has a lot going for it including powerhouse performances, the revival of the pioneering 1975 musical lacks a crucial ingredient for success.
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For a few terrifying minutes in 1850 as she stared down the barrel of a gun, Mathilde Hennes feared she was about to be returned from the home she had found in northeast Mexico to the Louisi…
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The second season under the baton of Jonathon Heyward reflects the conductor's determination to rethink what the symphony plays, where it performs and who it celebrates on stage.
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Though Lynn Nottage is a highly respected, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, she hasn't yet broken through to the upper echelon of such scribes as Tony Kushner or Lin-Manuel Miranda. And th…
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Howard County's Terry Eberhardt is the new executive director of the Graves Foundation, a venture the opera singer plans to use to help transition her career.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:00AMFriday, January 26, 2024
The national tours of "& Juliet" and "Life of Pi" will debut in Baltimore as a result of the 2022 tax credit program for live theater.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:13PMFriday, January 19, 2024
The cutbacks afflicting Maryland's largest regional theater in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are hardly unique to Baltimore.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:21PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed Thursday as Baltimore Center Stage’s next artistic di…
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This Tony Award-winning musical has been almost perfectly cast by director Joseph Ritsch. Once Rep Stage shuts down, Howard County will lose its only fully professional live theater.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:53PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
When the winners of the Tony Awards are announced July 11 on CBS, Baltimore theater lovers will have at least three reasons to watch.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:15PMThursday, March 23, 2023
The offstage drama at Baltimore Center Stage, which included a mass resignation of board members and withdrawn donations, mirrors the ongoing tensions around diversity, equity and inclusion …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:47PMFriday, February 3, 2023
One local theater is expanding, another has unfurled its lineup of musicals for next season, and one longtime stalwart is shutting down.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:35PMFriday, January 27, 2023
As a high school senior in 2010, Jonathon Heyward wrote that his “huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra.” That dream becomes real in September with…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:22AMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Beginning April 1, Center Stage will be led by Ken-Matt Martin, the newly appointed interim artistic director who hails from Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:43PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
A single piece of sheet music for a popular song from the 1800s appears to bear the signature of Baltimore's master of macabre, but things are not always as they appear.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:00AMFriday, December 17, 2021
The group founded nearly 20 years ago by three Morgan State students is hitting its stride, still committed to the mission of passing on to a new generation the tools for a successful perfor…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:00AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Baltimore's theaters and concert halls are requiring mask-wearing and proof of vaccination as they welcome patrons back for in-person live performances.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:00AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
