Center Stage and Baltimore Choral Arts Society among groups given money by National Endowment for the ArtsCenter Stage and Baltimore Choral Arts Society among groups given money by National …
Meagan Helman joined Ballet Theatre of Maryland as an apprentice dancer 11 years ago, only a year after Dianna Cuatto took the helm as artistic director.
A favorite holiday tradition is in its 10th fully staged revival on the local stage: Pasadena Theatre Company's annual production of "It's a Wonderful Life."
Dings soitanly was rough for da boys who hadda sell papes on da streets o' New Yawk in 1899 to earn a pidaful livin'. No wonda dey wennon strike when da big publishas raised da cost da newsi…
The Downtown Columbia Arts and Culture Commission, a nonprofit supporting arts in Columbia's burgeoning Town Center, has opened the 2015 grant application process.The Downtown Columbia Arts …
A Baltimore woman filed suit Monday in federal court asking a judge to order the France Merrick Performing Arts Center to provide open-captioned performances for its hearing-impaired patrons.
Way back in the day, before big-city newspapers had to contend with newfangled concerns like online readership, they focused solely on what they could cram into print and put into human hand…
The holidays wouldn't be holidays without nostalgia. Center Stage lays it on thickly and quite endearingly with "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play."
The Bard is enjoying a big boost in Baltimore this season.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theater in 1982, a year after its London opening, and ran for 7,485 performances.
When it comes to evaluating pure enchantment in opera, Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" would probably top most lists. If more companies would give Massenet's "Cendrillon" its due, this exq…
Fifty years ago, Broadway audiences were introduced to Tevye, an impoverished milkman in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka at the turn of the last century. This lovable guy, who was on speaking…
Back in the day, the marketing of suspense movies sometimes included asking viewers to keep a secret. A typical example, from the trailer for "Strait -Jacket," the now cult-camp classic from…
Two musical worlds will collide this weekend. Concert Artists of Baltimore, a valued contributor to the area's classical scene for 28 years, will team up with the Baltimore Rock Opera Societ…
There are certain indestructible elements to Puccini's "La Boheme" -- the deeply lyrical music, for a start, not to mention the compact, endearing plot about young love and loss -- but every…
Lyric Opera Baltimore's production to feature two Japanese artistsLyric Opera Baltimore's production to feature two Japanese artists
The Annapolis Shakespeare Company's current production of "Macbeth" is another resounding success as the troupe opens its fifth season.
Neither monster nor buffoon, Richard II could have become a revered monarch of 14th-century England. He had taste, which led to significant arts patronage, and good manners " some say he inv…
Now that the bicentennial observances of the Battle of Baltimore and penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner" are over, it's worth getting back to the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. There i…
When audiences file into Everyman Theatre for performances of George Brant's gripping one-act, one-actor play "Grounded," they are greeted with the sight of a figure sitting motionless onsta…
The average, certifiably sane person might consider the idea of writing a musical about mental illness to be a manifestation of mental illness. Composer Tom Kitt and lyricist/librettist Bria…
There is a promising idea at the heart of "I Love Lucy Live on Stage," the heavy-on-the-nostalgia production now at the Hippodrome.
Hello. My name is Tim. And I'm an "I Love Lucy"-holic.
Sixty-three years ago this week — at 9 p.m. Oct. 15, 1951 — TV viewers got their first look at a situation comedy on CBS that, in short order, would become part of the country's …
It is impossible to avoid thinking about Sarah Kane's suicide by hanging in 1999 at the age of 28 when encountering the British playwright's final work, "4.48 Psychosis."