The ancient Greeks had an enviable knack for understanding human nature and, especially, human misjudgments, the kind that can set off wave after wave of tragedy. A multilayered case in poin…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary stage musical "Hamilton" has won a Grammy, a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation and now another honor " one of the largest prizes given for drama…
On March 4, 1933, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt took his first oath of office as president, his wife Eleanor wore a ring she had recently been given by journalist Lorena Hickok. A couple…
NBC has tapped some deep Broadway talent for its live production of the stage musical "Hairspray." Kenny Leon, who won a Tony for the recent revival of "A Raisin in the Sun," will direct the…
The University of Maryland, College Park is staging a play that explores racial tensions on a college campus that was loosely inspired by a poem written during the Harlem Renaissance by the …
Though tickets are nigh-impossible to get for the smash Broadway hip-hop musical "Hamilton," we can live vicariously through Kamille Upshaw. The Baltimore School for the Arts alumna, who has…
Now arriving at the B&O Railroad Museum: "Ghost Train," an opera about a mysterious, dangerous vision that rides the rails. British-born American composer Paul Crabtree intended this work to…
Paul Meecham, who became president and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra a decade ago after a period of high deficits and rocky morale, and quickly corrected its course, is stepping do…
No wonder all the cool people are in Arden, the forest at the heart of Shakespeare's "As You Like It." That's where you're free to be who you are and where you can find a helping hand, maybe…
Raina, the 30-ish single mother at the heart of Michael Hollinger's intriguing play "Under the Skin" receiving its Baltimore premiere at Everyman Theatre, finds herself struggling with an un…
You would have to be psycho to think you could re-create a classic Alfred Hitchcock movie on the stage with only four actors and a small bundle of props. Or you'd have to be English playwrig…
The Hippodrome Theatre's 2016-2017 musical-filled season promises a mix of fairy tale, fantasy, nostalgia and vintage pop culture. Three shows in the lineup are currently running on Broadway…
When "The Phantom of the Opera" last played the Hippodrome Theatre in 2010, audiences saw a much-traveled version that effectively re-created the original production of the enormously succes…
Nicholas Delaney, who was resident musician at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and also worked closely with Cohesion Theatre Company, died on Tuesday. He was 34. Cohesion Theatre founding…
George Rose won two Tony Awards and enjoyed widespread admiration from fellow actors. He kept a South American wild cat as a pet at home and on the road. He also died a tortuous death in the…
The audacity and depth of "West Side Story" are forcefully reiterated in an up-close revival playing to packed houses at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. The production underlines the the…
In Shakespeare's day, a certain kind of gender-bending was inevitable in the theater. With women banned from acting on the English stage, the Bard had to write female roles for young male ac…
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As the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre works to relocate from its longtime home in Mount Vernon, the organization's move could mean restoring a landmark of black history in Baltimore and …
Onstage, Rebecca Friedman glows with warmth and joy, tinged with elegance. Whatever that quality is that makes one performer stand out above the others, "Becca" has it, and audiences tend to…
"Outside Mullingar," the slender, tender John Patrick Shanley play set in rain-soaked rural Ireland now at Everyman Theatre, gives old issues of love and family a fresh shake. There's a wee …
If you've had it with all the usual Christmas fare, check out "The Santa Closet," an inventive one-man play written and performed by Jeffrey Solomon at Theatre Project. Just don't bring the …
If you always thought noisy roosters were perkily greeting the sun, meet Odysseus " Odie, for short. He's the foul-mouthed fowl being carefully bred to kill in Eric Dufault's biting play "Ye…
In what promises to be an unusually smooth transition, Center Stage managing director Stephen Richard will retire at the end of the season, succeeded by former managing director Michael Ross…
The heart of Manhattan's theater district, which picked up the nickname the Great White Way in the 1890s because of then-dazzling electric lights, is really more like the Great Might Way. Yo…