For 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 …
There'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 …
Kevin Spacey has been picked to host this year's Tony Awards, putting the award-winning star of "House of Cards" in the unenviable position of steering a telecast surely facing a post-"Hamil…
NEW YORK (AP) " Producers of the Broadway musical "Groundhog Day" said it will open as planned after Baltimore-born star Andy Karl injured himself days before the premiere. Â Karl, who gr…
Picture 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…
Here'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…
Everyman 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…
A familiar voice in Catonsville is one step closer to stardom. Julia Tucker, a 25-year-old Catonsville resident, sang on the upcoming original Broadway cast recording of "Natasha, Pierre, an…
The 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. …
Two 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…
For 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 to…
School productions take months of planning, hours of rehearsals and nerves of steel before opening night
In 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 September…
The winter season has heated up nicely. In addition to such attractions as Stillpointe Theatre's vibrant staging of the musical gem "Grey Gardens,"Â there's a stylish production from Singl…
Take 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 m…
Call 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…
"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 …
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…
Ticket buyers formed a line outside the just-completed Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in early January 1967 for movie star Betty Grable's performances in the title role of "Hello, Dolly!" Baltim…
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…
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: …
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 yo…
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 …
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…
Don't let the toe shoes fool you. They might look like nothing but pearl-colored satin and glossy ribbons, but those kicks are made to take a pounding.When the Ballet Theatre of Maryland's d…