The Fells Point Corner Theatre has announced its 2016-17 season of eight dramas and comedies based on a theme of rescue. The venerable community theater is dedicating its 28th season, which …
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Thursday that five neighborhoods and organizations will receive a total of $110,000 in 2016 PNC Transformative Art Prizes. The awards,…
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 …
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…
This year's Kennedy Center honorees include musicians who span genres including pop, rock, gospel, blues, folk and classical " and an actor known for his extraordinary range. The John F. Ken…
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…
The news that no die-hard "Hamilton" fan " or anyone who hasn't seen the Broadway smash yet " wants to hear has arrived: Lin-Manuel Miranda, its creator and star, is leaving the show this su…
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…
The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "She Loves Me" will become the first Broadway production to livestream a performance, with the title -- nominated for eight Tony Awards and starri…
When he was asked to dress Leslie Odom Jr. for a Broadway premiere a year ago, designer David Hart had never heard of the actor or the show " a little-known musical called "Hamilton." But…
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 gran…
"Hamilton," the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won the 2016 Tony Award for best new musical, capping an emotional night in which many in the Broadway community rallied to emb…
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…
The curtain has risen on Harry Potter's latest adventure " and J.K. Rowling is urging fans not to ruin the magic by letting its secrets out. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" has had its f…
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, t…
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 …
The 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…
Looking at the finished product " a blue-hued otherworldly creature with lightning-quick, graceful movements " it's hard to imagine that just an hour before, Lisanna Ohm appeared to be a nor…
Sarah Hayashi had long loved Baroque music " the era of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Henry Purcell. She sang with the Peabody Children's Chorus, took voice lessons at Pe…
Thanks to a new residency program, Baltimore is getting a permanent professional ballet company for the first time in 23 years. True, the Ballet Theatre of Maryland will continue to be ba…
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 …
It was ambitious enough of Everyman Theatre to tackle two classics of the American stage, "Death of a Salesman" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," rotating in repertory. But the company upped t…
How do you follow up a remarkable season devoted solely to works by female playwrights? Well, you could try one that includes the world premiere of a musical about a female impersonator and …
John Waters talks about his inspiration for the story and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performance of "Hairspray."
If you've been hesitant to give Lyric Opera Baltimore any attention (and from the empty seats Friday night, I'd say that means a whole lot of you), the company's season-ending presentation o…