Chesapeake Beach, MD resident, Mickey Cashman has been selected from a pool of over 12,000 global applicants to represent the 80 finalists in the Young Adult Honors Choir. He will perform at…
This is your chance to acknowledge the many wonderful performing arts organizations that enrich our lives throughout the year by submitting your write-in choices for the Readers’ Choic…
by PJ Trautwein There are rare times in life when very special dreams do come true. This happened for me with Agne G's Christmas Concert at my church, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Ellicott City…
There's something magical about children's theatre. It might be the excitement on the kids' faces as they wait for a production to start, or it could be the awe in their eyes throughout the …
It's another dry, hot day. Your garden is starting to show signs of dehydration, resulting in frustration and annoyance, especially after all the love you poured into it. Then, to top things…
As Christmas rolls around, popular culture is teeming with references to Scrooge and other Dickensian characters. But what would A Christmas Carol be without Marley's haunting voice or Tiny …
"The Hip Hop Nutcracker" is a bit like other versions of "The Nutcracker." That is, as long as you consider that steps en tournant are performed on performers' heads and sautes are executed …
"Charley's Aunt" was a popular feature in the mid-twentieth century. It was a vehicle for comedy legend Jack Benny in a movie version, and it subsequently became a Broadway musical, "Where's…
"Miss Saigon" is deployed in its current tour of duty at the Kennedy Center, and it is nothing short of a magnificent victory — unlike the situation of the last days of the ill-fated c…
Back by Popular Demand: The Still Resilient Ball After the 2016 election the community of Mt. Rainier, MD banded together at Joe's Movement Emporium for a post-election solidarity event. Two…
I was delighted to speak this week with Marion Glatz, co-producer with her husband Attila of “Salute to Vienna,” a New Year’s Concert that emulates Vienna’s long-stan…
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND to Friday and Saturday, December 21st and 22nd! This holiday season, gift yourself while gifting others! Baltimore’s award-winning and favorite tradition, Th…
Spotlighters Theatre is going slightly off-book this year by offering a non-traditional holiday offering. Leave it to one of the most venerable artistic institutions in the city to do…
Somehow there is a cosmic joke running through Shakespeare Theatre Company's “The Panties, The Partner and The Profit: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class” and it's e…
What happens when you take the best jazz musicians in the world, challenge them to create fresh arrangements of familiar songs, and then perform the pieces in a full state-of-the-art music h…
"She Loves Me" has to be one of the most good-natured musicals that's ever been written. Fauquier Community Theatre's new production of the show fully makes good on the story's gentle promis…
“Striking 12” presented by Free Range Humans is helping to ring in the holidays at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. “Striking 12” is an …
During the overture of Ballet Chesapeake's new production of "The Nutcracker," the narrator exclaims to the audience, "I do love Christmastime, don't you?" The answer is yes, especially…
Fifty-seven years after their debut single, The Beach Boys are back! Though the original lineup of the Wilson brothers, Al Jardine, and Mike Love saw losses due to cancer, accidents, and men…
Iron Crow Theatre has announced that April Forrer, former Managing Director of Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, will join Iron Crow Theatre as Managing Director, reporting directly to the Boar…
Wondrously choreographed and directed by Dianna Cuatto, Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of "The Nutcracker" is spirited after the original, including the classic composition by Tchai…
Fresh on the heels of the release of her hilarious new book, THE TOTALLY UNSCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN HAPPINESS (available now wherever books, ebooks and audiobooks are sold), …
'Madeline's Christmas' at Creative Cauldron. “'Madeline's Christmas is a delightfully gentle musical exploring the magic of Christmas."Â – Mary Ann Johnson. READ review. Synops…
“Madeline’s Christmas” is a delightfully gentle musical exploring the magic of Christmas. The staging is innovative, it has puppets, really good voices, beautiful use of li…
Clocking in at just an hour, “My Father’s Dragon” is another family friendly show that will not tax kids' abilities to sit in a seat and watch a live show. In fact, this sh…