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Laura Weiss doesn't come from a theater family. She can't boast of any stars of stage or screen among her relatives. Yet Weiss fell in love with the performing arts at an early age, and she …
J. B. Priestley's multi-layered play "An Inspector Calls" held up a mirror to post-World War II society in Britain. Everyman Theatre's taut revival holds up a mirror to us.
Some people may find it difficult to remember how hideously the AIDS crisis struck in the early 1980s, how fearful and hopeless it felt. All the prejudice, all those urban myths, all that go…
If you are concerned about encroaching bilingualism (and why shouldn't we all just speak "American"?), or if you just wish you could "make the world a better place for the right people," hea…
County's outreach group performs for fellow seniors
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape, according…
When Rep Stage decided to devote the entire 2015-2016 season to works by contemporary female playwrights, the company's co-producing artistic director, Suzanne Beal, sought to make a stateme…
Of all the gin joints in the world...
Baltimore's 2015-2016 theater scene will be missing a player. With a freshly appointed administrative team, Iron Crow Theatre plans to spend the next season beefing up the ensemble and expan…
Although four decades have passed since he became the first president of the United States to resign from office, Richard Nixon has been the subject of more than a dozen new histories and bi…
Baltimore-born and -raised playwright Mai Sennaar is gearing up for a significant new step in her blossoming career. The world premiere of Sennaar's ambitious drama "The Fall of the Kings" w…
Misty Copeland officially became the first African-American woman to be named a principal in the 75-year history of the American Ballet Theater on Saturday, but the dancer wasn't celebrating…
To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Shadow Players are staging "The Last Geese of Autumn" by local playwright Patrick Perkins. Celebrating the patriotism and sacrifi…
The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons has finally come to the heart of Mormonlandia, starting a sold-out, two-week run Tuesday at a Salt Lake City theater two blocks from the churc…
Harford Dance Theatre is presenting an original dance-theater production, "Kinetic Canvas: Edward Hopper," that tells a timeless yet unique story of love and hope set in New York City before…
After 16 years as the premier classical and contemporary dance company in the Northern Maryland region, Harford Ballet Company has renamed itself Ballet Chesapeake.
Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and future in fiction and nonfiction, has d…
Theodore Bikel, the Tony- and Oscar-nominated actor and singer whose passions included folk music and political activism, died Tuesday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center in Los…
The Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric, which recently issued a save-the-date teaser for Lyric Opera Baltimore's 2015-2016 season, has filled in the details.
Wickerham & Lomax, a pair of Baltimore artists, were awarded the 10th annual Sondheim Artscape Prize Saturday at a ceremony at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
There is nothing like a non-linear, non-narrative, non-anything-conventional play to stir up the senses - as long as it's produced intelligently and sensitively. That's what Cohesion Theatre…
She did it!
City theater companies to offer readings of dozens of new plays by female writers
From sculptures to website creations, wall collages to samples of the Earth's core, the works in the 2015 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize exhibit are as varied as the artists' backgro…
"Marley," the bio-musical about reggae icon Bob Marley written and directed by Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, may not have generated universally upbeat reviews, but it had …
