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(Baltimore, Md.) The Handel Choir of Baltimore celebrates its 90th anniversary in the 2024-2025 season. The Choir commemorates this milestone with a season of masterworks, beginning with the…
Even from their first sour meeting, it's clear Alice and Diana have chemistry. A deep and fast intimacy strengthens between them, a platonic summer romance, in parallel with their daughters'…
If you need convincing to see Flamenco, the presence of Norberto Chamizo Garrido on any playbill should erase all doubts. His intensity is unmatched. With every movement"from the power of hi…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre will be premiering an original play, "A Very Jewish Christmas," written by Sarah Schulman and directed by Sache Satta, opening November 22, 2024. The play is both "…
Many of Agatha Christie's novels have been turned into plays. In this Laurel Mill Playhouse production, the crime solver is none other than Miss Marple (Sam David), one of the most intriguin…
Scottish costumes, opulent banquet scenes, and powerful, evocative lines like "To arms!" and "Victory or Death!" are just a few of the highlights that make Verdi's "Macbeth," presented by th…
William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, "Twelfth Night," made its debut in 1623 when it was included in the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays. Four centuries …
Spotlighters Theatre's production of "Deathtrap" by Ira Levin is the model balance between nail-biting suspense and hearty comedy. Director Stephen Foreman gives the audience a 'fly on the w…
Emmy Award-winner John Leguizamo has brought the world premiere of his powerful new play, "The Other Americans," directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, to Arena Stage. Set in 1998, it is a seari…
In a world of pop princesses, we have to make room for six pop queens! Back by popular demand, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow's global sensation, "SIX" once again reigns at The National Theatre.�…
Musicals don't get much darker than "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Stephen Sondheim's 1979 show, based on a 19th-century penny dreadful, reveals the secret life and diabol…
When does the very group that builds America's global competitive edge become a victim of its own creations? How will minority groups navigate the moral and ethical dilemmas of our data-driv…
Baltimore theatergoers will remember Jaclyn Backhaus' brilliant "Men on Boats" from its local premiere with Cohesion Theatre Arts in 2017 (Center Stage produced it a season or two later). Wh…
"Dance Like There's Black People Watching" is a Black Excellence Revue and continuation of the 15-year collaboration between The Second City and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Directed by Rob…
Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight! For those seeking escapist delight, a laugh-out-loud musical croons just outside DC at Arlington's Signature Theatre. Transport yourself to ancient Rome in "…
Contemporary science fiction usually imagines the future, but We Happy Few's production of Karl ÄŒapek's "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots") adopts a distinctly old feeling, more akin to …
Full Circle Dance Company's "From the Source of Our Power" at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Meyerhoff Auditorium was a well-curated and well-attended affair featuring work by choreographers …
Joshua Harmon's 2024 Tony-nominated, epically expansive script, "Prayer for the French Republic," investigates the horrors of the Holocaust, albeit as more of a side note than headline, hold…
A resident company of Baltimore Theatre Project, Happenstance Theatre has remounted its 2015 production (review) of "Cabaret Noir." It's hard to believe that is has been that many years ago,…
Within the first few minutes of sitting down to see "The Art of Care" conceived and directed by Derek Goldman, a cast member asked me the name of someone I'd cared for or who'd cared for me.…
The intellectualism of Tony Kushner's work can sometimes obscure the bigger-picture themes and stories and yet, it is this intellectualism that brands his work as distinctly of its time in a…
"Many moons ago" in 1959, Hans Christian Andersen's renowned fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea," inspired a musical comedy and "Once Upon a Mattress" was born. In the 65 years since its …
If a family member were accused of a crime, how far would you go to clear their name? The Colonial Players, an Annapolis-based company celebrating its 76th season, is asking. The question is…
"I need real things to draw from 'cause I don't trust memory." This adaptation of Alison Bechdel's award-winning graphic memoir, "Fun Home," made its Broadway debut in 2015. It won several a…