Saturday, January 24, 2015
Those perky missionaries in their white shirts and black ties will return to Baltimore to spread humor, or offense, once again.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:00AMBefore a word is spoken, the Center Stage production of "One Night in Miami," Kemp Powers' play about the aftermath of Cassius Clay's world heavyweight boxing victory on Feb. 25, 1964, deliv…
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Awash in allusions to "Moby Dick" and the biblical story of Jonah, Samuel D. Hunter's startling play "The Whale" focuses on the kind of person you don't expect to see onstage, except, perhap…
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With a flourish of the surreal, the steamy and the slightly scary, playwright Jose Rivera creates a distinctive, colorful world in "References to Salvador Dali make Me Hot." That world is co…
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The Shakespeare Theatre Association, with an international membership of more than 100 companies, will hold its annual conference in Baltimore early January 2017. Chesapeake Shakespeare Comp…
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After the better part of six decades, the Baltimore Opera Company slipped into bankruptcy in 2009, done in by a combination of dwindling financial resources, questionable management, an unha…
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Ah, Christmastime, when the nippy air is filled with heartwarming thoughts of family, friends and cold-blooded murder.
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It was just a group of young Baltimore guys talking about nothing — and everything — during the twilight of the 1950s, when so much was about to change. How they expressed their schemes …
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In 1842, Barnum's City Hotel, at the corner of Calvert and Fayette streets, welcomed Charles Dickens, who promptly proclaimed the hostelry among the finest he had sampled.
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Dings soitanly was rough for da boys who hadda sell papes on da streets o' New Yawk in 1899 to earn a pidaful livin'. No wonda dey wennon strike when da big publishas raised da cost da newsi…
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Way back in the day, before big-city newspapers had to contend with newfangled concerns like online readership, they focused solely on what they could cram into print and put into human hand…
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The holidays wouldn't be holidays without nostalgia. Center Stage lays it on thickly and quite endearingly with "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play."
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
When it comes to evaluating pure enchantment in opera, Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" would probably top most lists. If more companies would give Massenet's "Cendrillon" its due, this exq…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:13PMFifty years ago, Broadway audiences were introduced to Tevye, an impoverished milkman in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka at the turn of the last century. This lovable guy, who was on speaking…
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Back in the day, the marketing of suspense movies sometimes included asking viewers to keep a secret. A typical example, from the trailer for "Strait -Jacket," the now cult-camp classic from…
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Two musical worlds will collide this weekend. Concert Artists of Baltimore, a valued contributor to the area's classical scene for 28 years, will team up with the Baltimore Rock Opera Societ…
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There are certain indestructible elements to Puccini's "La Boheme" -- the deeply lyrical music, for a start, not to mention the compact, endearing plot about young love and loss -- but every…
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Lyric Opera Baltimore's production to feature two Japanese artistsLyric Opera Baltimore's production to feature two Japanese artists
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Neither monster nor buffoon, Richard II could have become a revered monarch of 14th-century England. He had taste, which led to significant arts patronage, and good manners — some say he i…
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Now that the bicentennial observances of the Battle of Baltimore and penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner" are over, it's worth getting back to the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. There i…
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When audiences file into Everyman Theatre for performances of George Brant's gripping one-act, one-actor play "Grounded," they are greeted with the sight of a figure sitting motionless onsta…
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The average, certifiably sane person might consider the idea of writing a musical about mental illness to be a manifestation of mental illness. Composer Tom Kitt and lyricist/librettist Bria…
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There is a promising idea at the heart of "I Love Lucy Live on Stage," the heavy-on-the-nostalgia production now at the Hippodrome.
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Sixty-three years ago this week — at 9 p.m. Oct. 15, 1951 — TV viewers got their first look at a situation comedy on CBS that, in short order, would become part of the country's …
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Iron Crow Theatre presents an effectively moody staging of "4.48 Psychosis" the last play Sarah Kane wrote before committing suicide.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:17AMIt is impossible to avoid thinking about Sarah Kane's suicide by hanging in 1999 at the age of 28 when encountering the British playwright's final work, "4.48 Psychosis."
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:17AMDavid Ives' "Venus in Fur," a play spiced with sadomasochistic desires, gets a sturdy workout from Columbia-based Rep Stage directed by Joseph W. Ritsch.
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