Wednesday, June 12, 2019
When Baltimore native and Baltimore City College graduate, André De Shields won a Tony award on Sunday night he shouted out his hometown from the stage. “Baltimore, Maryland are you in th…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:06AMBroadway's best take their talents from the stage to the red carpet as they arrive at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 9, 2019.
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:06AMSunday night, Baltimore native André De Shields won a Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical, his first in his 50-year career. De Shields, a Baltimore City College graduate, won fo…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:06AMThe 2019 Tony Awards turned out heavenly for "Hadestown," the stylized, bluesy, steampunk-influenced Anais Mitchell musical based on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth and set partly in the und…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 09:06AMAndré De Shields capped a 50-year acting career by scoring his first Tony Award on Sunday night, winning best featured actor in a musical for his role as Hermes in “Hadestown.” It’s b…
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Rodney Orange Jr., managing director of the Arena Players who was credited with helping to save the theater company, died of heart disease April 22 at the University of Maryland Medical Cent…
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Rep Stage’s 26th season at the Horowitz Center for the Arts is closing with a madcap bang in the current run of Patrick Barlow’s “The 39 Steps,” a raucous family-friendly farce calli…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 06:46PMBack on the road, in the air and at sea again after magically appearing in the Disney film a half century ago, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” continues to enchant the young and young-at-heart…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 03:36PMOn Thursday morning, with barely 30 minutes to go until the box office opened at 11 a.m., several dozen people eagerly waited outside the Hippodrome Theatre. One group of fans drove over thr…
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Comedian Dave Chappelle has been chosen to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The 45-year-old Chappelle shot to international stardom through his Comedy Central program…
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If you’re hanging around Everyman Theatre this summer, you might hear the gritty growl of a buzzsaw or the dull thump of hammers. Those are the sounds a theater company makes when it expan…
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The acclaimed Baltimore-born actor Andre De Shields received his third career nomination Tuesday for an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award. De Shields was nominated for best featured actor in a m…
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“Hamilton” fans, start your engines! Tickets for the Baltimore engagement of the epically popular play, set for June 25-July 21 at the Hippodrome, go on sale May 9. But if you’re one o…
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Intimacy choreographer Chelsea Pace carefully designed every detail of a passionate embrace on stage between two young actors, down to the way they tilted their heads. "First, there's a shor…
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Singer Leslie Odom Jr., known for his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” has postponed his performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra u…
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Rosemary Knower, an actress who played roles from Lady Macbeth to a schoolteacher in John Waters’ “Hairspray,” died of a stroke Wednesday at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. T…
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Taye Diggs’ megawatt smile will be seen in Baltimore this fall. But the Broadway star and former cast member of TV’s “Empire” will be behind the curtain for a change. Diggs will make…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 07:00AMThe screwball comedy spirit of the 1934 musical “Anything Goes” definitely comes across in a Silhouette Stages production that makes the most of the silly plot. Set on the sort of ocean …
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Howard Community College’s Rep Stage announced its 2019-2020 season Thursday afternoon with four productions, including world and regional premieres.
The season kicks off with “Souvenir…
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Donald N. Walls, a retired film and theater critic who appeared on radio and television for nearly three decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 19 at Storey Oaks Memory Care in Oklahom…
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On Friday night, Mark and Sandra Laken sat side by side in Everyman Theatre, where they have dedicated a pair of front row seats to the memory of their late son. They watched the opening nig…
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Go ahead and cancel your bus tickets to New York. Two of the most acclaimed musicals of the past few years will anchor the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center’s 2019-2020 season, the ven…
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Single Carrot Theatre will take a bold leap into the unknown this June when it gives up its permanent performing home at 2600 N. Howard St. Instead, the 12-year-old troupe will conduct a ser…
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The Baltimore Development Corp. has selected a local design and construction firm to redevelop the historic Mayfair Theatre and an adjacent lot, according to Board of Estimates documents. Za…
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A man shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night in an outburst that some audience membe…
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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…
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“Dancing At Lughnasa” is a nostalgic look at a family of five unmarried sisters in 1936 Ireland. The Mundy sisters are caring for their older brother, Jack, a Catholic priest who was sen…
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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…
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Heather C. Jackson splits her time between her makeshift work space in the bedroom of her Original Northwood home and her silver Prius, which she loads down with blue IKEA bags filled with g…
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When the curtains went up at the Havre de Grace Opera House last year, Harford County arts lovers got not just their first glimpse of the community theater debut of “Tuck Everlasting,” b…
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