Tuesday, January 10, 2017
"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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With winter settling in, here's my second annual sampling of potentially hot classical concerts and theater productions that just might help you feel toasty during the cold weeks that lie ah…
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Included in more than $30 million of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts announced this week is $50,000 to help with the world premiere of "Jazz," Nambi E. Kelley's play based on…
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Midway through "Dot," the funny and poignant play by Colman Domingo enjoying a terrific production at Everyman Theatre, a proud woman in her mid-60s is gently led toward a simple admission: …
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Those who anticipate Christmas and its promised mounds of presents as if it were the most important, incredible, life-changing day of the year — or those who can still remember being that …
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Among those attending the premiere of Colman Domingo's "Dot" at the Humana Festival of New Plays in Louisville, Ky., in 2015 was Everyman Theatre artistic director Vincent Lancisi. "I think …
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Asked the inevitable question about how things were going on the set of "Hairspray Live," which NBC will air Wednesday night, director Kenny Leon just laughed. And laughed. Then laughed some…
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You might feel just a wee bit guilty laughing at some of the things in "The Divine Sister," the ever-so-irreverent Charles Busch comedy now getting an enjoyable spin at Fells Point Corner Th…
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You can argue that there's no compelling reason to turn Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 TV musical "Cinderella" into a bona-fide Broadway show. Or that the version fashioned by Douglas Carter…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:06PMThe whole crazy business of falling for someone — jitters, confusion, uplift, deflation — has generated many a play, but none quite like "Savage/Love." This nonlinear collection of 19 po…
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In her mid-50s and in a post-divorce rut, Sharon takes the risky step of advertising for someone with whom to share her Iowa City home. The last thing she expects to walk through her kitchen…
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The Baltimore-born actor Andy Karl, who starred on Broadway two years ago in the title role of the musical version of "Rocky," will be back on the Great White Way this spring to head the cas…
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Stillpointe Theatre, one of the cool DIY troupes on the Baltimore scene, is spreading out. After opening new rented digs last year in Station North at 1825 N. Charles Street, the company thi…
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Founded on a shoestring less than a decade ago, the Strand Theater Company has made a significant contribution to the local scene by putting extra emphasis on women's voices — playwrights…
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Banned in Boston, an act that could only guarantee more attention, Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem "The Wild Party" presented a decidedly seamy slice of the times. The poet conjured up a ro…
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Working its way back to the Hippodrome Theatre for the third time in five years, the touring production of "Jersey Boys" again delivers a satisfying combination of hit parade and eventful ba…
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You can take in a whole lot more than a play this season at Everyman Theatre, which seems to have developed quite an appetite for offering extras to its patrons. The company introduced a d…
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Politicians, pundits and protesters have had much to say about the deaths of young black men in Baltimore and other cities. Saturday night at Morgan State University, musicians will address …
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"Wait Until Dark" isn't a fool-proof thriller. While the 1966 play by Frederick Knott contains ingredients for suspense — the central figure is a blind woman in Greenwich Village, N.Y., te…
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People of a certain age might still get a chill at the mention of the 1967 film "Wait Until Dark." It earned Audrey Hepburn an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Susan, a blind wo…
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Long before we all found our email inboxes crammed with tantalizing news of fortunes nesting in Nigerian banks, needing only the simplest of responses before all that money could be ours, ne…
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There's something irresistible about eavesdropping on great musicians jamming, away from audiences and expectations. If someone thinks to turn on a microphone during such a session, you can …
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Playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht argued that art is not so much "a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." The exhibit of the 2016 Sondheim Artscape Finalists at t…
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If you're at all anxious about having a midlife crisis, or still scarred from the one you experienced, you might want to steer clear of Single Carrot Theatre. The company's world-premiere pr…
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John Denver, the high-on-mountains, God-thanking country boy who wrote and sang some of the most successful pop music hits of past 50 years, could make an interesting subject for a stage sho…
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The Strand Theater Company, a Baltimore troupe devoted to spotlighting women's voices, has been without a fixed address for two years -- until now. With funding from a Maryland state grant,…
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The League of American Orchestras, representing a mostly white industry, opens a three-day national conference Thursday in a majority African-American city at a time of increased racial tens…
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Two worlds greet us every day — one filled with people who have sufficient creature comforts and productive pursuits; the other populated by those we prefer not to see or brush up against,…
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Given all that Baltimore has been going through, we may need "Hairspray" more than ever. This feel-good musical, based on the 1988 John Waters film, manages to address the sobering issue of …
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:06PMThe audience at 710 Main Theatre, an intimate venue in Buffalo's increasingly vibrant downtown, looks to be mostly on the older side. But the crowd sounds positively teenage when it claps an…
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Edna Turnblad will be arnin' some more clothes and her likewise well-fed daughter, Tracy, will be trying out again for a spot on a TV dance show when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra brings …
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