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Not all sweets are bad for you. However high the sugar content in "The Sound of Music," the revival of this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic now playing at the Hippodrome Theatre delivers imm…
It's hard enough to make a go of things when you think you know who you are and who you fancy. Things get much trickier for the young man called John in Mike Bartlett's intense and funny wor…
Anna Deavere Smith's uncanny ability to channel the people she interviews allows her to focus attention on tough issues in an unusually potent way. Witness, for example, "Let Me Down Easy," …
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's founding artistic director, Ian Gallanar, was inducted into the National Theatre Conference on Friday in New York.Founded in 1925, the organization's aims in…
Greater acceptance for the transgender community might be reflected in the Amazon TV series "Transparent" or the reception of Caitlyn Jenner. But the lopsided defeat last month for an anti-d…
Sometimes they let you choose. They present a list of possible books for your review, and the crushing what-if of it all falls on you. Choose the wrong book and you'll be counting pages, sig…
Two of Baltimore's longest-lasting cultural institutions are chronicled in new books that make for engaging reads (and might find a spot on your holiday gift " or wish " list). They're both …
The musical version of Barry Levinson's 1989 film classic "Diner" is inching closer to New York. Last year, the show, with songs by Sheryl Crow, premiered at Signature Theatre in Arlington. …
Among the more than three dozen students from public arts high schools and after-school arts programs invited to a day-long symposium dubbed "Broadway at the White House" on Monday were thre…
A play couldn't be more ripped from the headlines than "X's and O's," an examination of football, the good and bad, opening this week at Center Stage. At the heart of this 90-minute work, wr…
The minute you declare a spot off-limits, a child will be determined to gain entry. For more than a century, readers have enjoyed the story of one such young snooper, Mary Lennox, heroine of…
Philip Glass, the Baltimore-born composer with the distinctive minimalist style that has won him a global fan base, turns periodically to historic figures and events to find subject matter f…
It's back, as irreverent as ever.If you weren't converted the first time "The Book of Mormon" hit the Hippodrome a couple of years ago, the high-octane production now in town just might win …
After a 15-month "quiet phase" of fundraising that brought in $21.5 million in gifts and pledges, Center Stage has gone public with a campaign to raise an additional $10.5 million to fund ex…
'Raw' by Baltimore playwright premiers at Venus Theatre
Cast members in the national touring production of the ever-so-subversive Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" have been known to ask each other after a performance: "Did we lose anyone tod…
Rep Stage is really doing its part for the Women's Voices Theater Festival, which involves more than 50 Washington area theaters producing world premieres by female playwrights this fall. In…
It does not take a master detective to determine why "Something's Afoot," a musical from the 1970s that spoofs an Agatha Christie high-body-count whodunit, never became a big hit. The wit is…
Like a lot of people, Tom Melcher was frustrated with the amount of work it took to find something to watch onstage in New York. Unlike a lot of people, he did something about it. Melcher, a…
Troy Maxson, the intensely flawed head of household at the center of August Wilson's epic play "Fences," doesn't dispense tough love. It's more like rough love. Those on the receiving end ca…
A motley crew of harmonizing ghouls have arrived just in time to rattle Main Street for Halloween in Laurel Mill Playhouse's production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," d…
Two stage producers hope to usher Broadway fare into the digital streaming era with BroadwayHD, a new subscription and on-demand service that launches today. The service kicks off with a lib…
Seamus Miller didn't make it all the way through Shakespeare's earliest, most violent tragedy, "Titus Andronicus," when he first saw it at the age of 16. The place was Shakespeare's Globe in…
At a time when the national conversation is brimming with talk of barriers " persistent racial, social and economic divides; loud proposals for walled-in borders " August Wilson's "Fences" i…
Last month, Facebook and the Twittersphere lit up with stinging comments aimed at the Manhattan Theater Club, which had scheduled a season for its New York audiences consisting of seven play…
