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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 venue…
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…
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…
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 members fea…
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, lyrics by…
"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 sent ho…
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 shared by …
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…
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," but o…
Now you won't have to go to a museum to see a painting by acclaimed Baltimore artist Amy Sherald. The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts announced Friday in a press release that an ove…
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 wo…
In the wake of charges of sexual harassment against Iron Crow Theatre's artistic director that it continues to say were unfounded, theater officials are pledging more openness and a more str…
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 …
Author Anne Tyler has become known for creating offbeat characters who are instantly recognizable as residents of Charm City, the kind of people who pronounce "another" as a noun, as if a no…
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 plea…
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…
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 company was…
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 hi…
"Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" may have led Tony nominations with 12 apiece on Tuesday, but the real front-runners to emerge for Broadway's biggest honors were the musical "The Ban…
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…
From the upper stories of the Bromo Seltzer arts tower to Darley Park, Baltimore kicked off Neighborhood Lights " the first leg of the larger Light City festival " with displays of illuminat…
Toby Orenstein has been a fixture in Howard County since Columbia's founder, James W. Rouse, asked her to start a theater school in 1972, which now operates as the nonprofit Columbia Center …
The cast of a production by Baltimore's Iron Crow Theatre has walked out following allegations of sexual harassment against its artistic director. Thirteen members of the cast of Iron Crow's…
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, dashes of hea…