No 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…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:00AMOn the day 80 years ago that a pro-labor, anti-monopoly/corruption/greed stage work was about to be premiered in New York, a wind from the federal government blew and down came the productio…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:00PMWhen it comes to feuding, no one did it better than the Hatfield and McCoy clans in a region between West Virginia and Kentucky during the 1870s and ’80s, holding grudges and, at periodic …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:10PMIf you ever doubted that the truth can be stranger than fiction, you need only take a cursory glance at the celebrated case of love and espionage involving mid-level French diplomat Bernard …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 04:30PMIf you judged by the 2015 revival on Broadway, the late Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play “The Heidi Chronicles” must be passe.The short-lived production …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:00AMAs part of The Baltimore Sun’s Fall Arts Guide, we’re picking the best arts activities coming to the area this fall. Here’s the best of what the theater scene has to offer. For more, s…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:05PMNorth Avenue received an extra jolt last year when the theater troupe ArtsCentric started to make its home base in the already humming arts hub Motor House and delivered a big, buoyant produ…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 11:05AMStillpointe Theatre, which has a fine track record of reviving musicals, has taken a fresh look at “Tick, Tick … Boom,” an autobiographical work from 1990 by Jonathan Larson, written s…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:20PMThe term “hero” gets tossed around so liberally these days that it feels good to be reminded of someone who fits the bill thoroughly — Thurgood Marshall, the subject of a one-man play …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 05:40PMClassical music concerts and theater productions might be fewer during summer months in Baltimore, but there’s still a lot of activity on the calendar. Eclectic activity, even, as this wee…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 11:50AMIf you missed the Broadway production of “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” — it opened at Studio 54 last October and closed in mid-January — or want to enjoy it again, the Hippodrome T…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:30AMFor some theater companies, every summer brings a welcome opportunity to step outside and put a literal spin on Shakespeare’s all-the-world’s-a-stage notion. In the Baltimore-Annapolis a…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:15PMAll the streets will be a stage when Single Carrot Theatre welcomes audiences aboard a bus for the world premiere of its traveling production “Promenade: Baltimore,” starting June 2. Fo…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:45PMAnd you thought the secret of the universe was deep. Nope. It all boils down to just doors and sardines. This piece of wisdom gets dispatched early on in “Noises Off,” the intricately st…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 04:30PMSometimes, you just feel like a farce. That time appears to be now, at least in Baltimore, where Everyman Theatre reports extra interest in its production of Michael Frayn's farcical romp of…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:00AMIt's one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-that ideas that actually worked.In 2004, two friends in New York — Baltimore-born Jeff Bowen and Alabama native Hunter Bell — spotted an announcem…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:00AMAndy Karl, the actor who grew up in Timonium and got the theater bug starring in a musical at Towson High School, has received a Tony Award nomination as best leading actor in a musical for …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 01:50PMTry to remember the first time you encountered "The Fantasticks," the world's longest-running musical. (The original 1960 off-Broadway production ran 42 years; the 2006 New York revival will…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:00AMFor its 27th season, Everyman Theatre will showcase works by women, including 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. That four of six playwrights represented are women was not part of a …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:00AMThere's serendipitous timing in the arrival of "Annie" at the Lyric Opera House on Friday. This national touring production of the popular musical will open its short Baltimore visit with a …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:33AMPicture it. England, 1595. Some guy from the sticks named William Shakespeare is writing plays that are all the rage, while two way more talented brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, struggle to…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:00AMHere's a tantalizing prospect for fans of musical theater: author/TV producer David Simon, singer/songwriter/actor/etc. Steve Earle and UMBC professor Deborah Rudacille may write a Baltimore…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 04:04PMEveryman Theater has assembled terrific performers and showered classy production values on the ambitious musical "Los Otros." All of that quality onstage goes a long way toward making up fo…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:00AMThe sleek national touring production of "The Bodyguard," now at the Hippodrome Theatre, might best be described as a Whitney Houston tribute concert disguised as a Broadway-aiming musical. …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 10:34AMTwo of the most anticipated events on the Baltimore theater calendar are musicals that will receive their world or area premieres in the weeks ahead. Here's the latest casting information on…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 12:22PMFor the past year, passersby could easily sense that a major transformation was underway on the 700 block of N. Calvert St. — workers coming and going; cranes delivering building supplies …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:19PMIn an unusual move, Everyman Theatre has announced one of the works on its 2017-2018 lineup — David Henry Hwang's Tony Award-winning "M. Butterfly," which will launch the season in Septemb…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:24PMThe winter season has heated up nicely. In addition to such attractions as Stillpointe Theatre's vibrant staging of the musical gem "Grey Gardens," there's a stylish production from Single …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:01AMTake a much-loved pop culture figure; focus on her path to the top, with its personal joys and setbacks along the way; weave hit songs throughout this backstory — and you've got a friendly…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:59AMCall it the pre-"Hamilton" season. The gaga-hit musical will finally reach Baltimore during the Hippodrome Theatre's 2018-2019 season, and subscribers to the theater's 2017-2018 lineup, anno…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 11:00AM"The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is nothing if not double-edged. The song's instantly catchy melody, colorful lyrics and irresistible sway make it easy to forget that the subject is an amoral …
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