Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 06:00AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Early 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 07:00AMThursday, August 9, 2018
Stephanie 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 09:30AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Back 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 11:24AMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Single 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 12:20PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Complaints 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 04:20PMFriday, June 1, 2018
The 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 01:25PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Working 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 12:30PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Eerie 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 07:00AMFriday, March 23, 2018
The 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 02:00PMThursday, March 22, 2018
“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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 06:00AMFriday, March 16, 2018
The 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 06:00AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
You’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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 07:00AMThursday, March 8, 2018
When 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 06:00AMMonday, March 5, 2018
Hey, 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 09:45AMThursday, February 8, 2018
There’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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 01:10PMThursday, February 1, 2018
The 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 08:55AMThursday, January 25, 2018
A 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 …
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 02:05PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
The 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 07:30AMFriday, December 15, 2017
There’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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 06:00AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Since 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 12:10PMFriday, November 10, 2017
When 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 02:05PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Esther, 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 12:10PMThursday, October 19, 2017
It 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 05:15PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Lynn 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,…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 04:10PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Partway 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun at 10:25AMThursday, October 5, 2017
The 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…
Linked From The Baltimore Sun 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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