For some, burlesque is a form of resistance through sexuality, a theme that endures both in "The Sweet Spot Burlesque" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" performances.
Go to a book festival that showcases local writers, get ideas to spruce up your home and garden, listen to a moving story by a Black trans storyteller, attend a festival that celebrates loca…
Not all plays and musicals that came to Baltimore before they reached Broadway caught the success as "The Wiz."
Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed Thursday as Baltimore Center Stage's next artistic dire…
Abigail Lucien, a teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art, was announced Thursday as the winner of the 18th annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Art Prize.
Barbie is on the brain for a lot of Marylanders this weekend as the long-awaited premiere of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie arrives in local theaters.
The waterfront music and maker festival Baltimore by Baltimore is returning to the Inner Harbor Amphitheater on July 1.
Baltimore is one of seven U.S. cities hosting Cirque du Soleil's holiday show '"Twas the Night Before," which is scheduled for 17 performances at the Hippodrome Theatre.
The event put on by The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre and independent bookstore Greedy Reads will start at noon Saturday and end the same time the next day. It's attracted a lineup of Bal…
This Tony Award-winning musical has been almost perfectly cast by director Joseph Ritsch. Once Rep Stage shuts down, Howard County will lose its only fully professional live theater.
When the winners of the Tony Awards are announced July 11 on CBS, Baltimore theater lovers will have at least three reasons to watch.
Ami Brabson, best known for her role on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," returns to Baltimore to perform "Resilience & Joy, A Cabaret" at the Theatre Project in Midtown.
Edward H. Walters, a musician who played multiple woodwinds and later was a musical contractor for several area theaters, died March 11 at the Village at Rockville, a Rockville nursing cente…
The offstage drama at Baltimore Center Stage, which included a mass resignation of board members and withdrawn donations, mirrors the ongoing tensions around diversity, equity and inclusion …
A global Netflix comedy event will livestream from Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre Saturday night " the first one the online TV network has done.
Chris Rock's live performance from the Hippodrome Theatre on Saturday will be the first of its kind on Netflix, streaming live from Baltimore.
The revitalization of Baltimore's Howard Street continues with plans for a six-story, mixed-used building that will incorporate what remains of the Mayfair Theatre.
One local theater is expanding, another has unfurled its lineup of musicals for next season, and one longtime stalwart is shutting down.
As a high school senior in 2010, Jonathon Heyward wrote that his "huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra." That dream becomes real in September with the…
Comedian Chris Rock's live Netflix special will be hosted at the Hippodrome Theatre on March 4, the theater confirmed in an email to patrons.
Beginning April 1, Center Stage will be led by Ken-Matt Martin, the newly appointed interim artistic director who hails from Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.
John E. Ravekes, a career educator who served as president of both Dundalk and Essex community colleges and the driving force behind the building of the Dundalk Community Theatre, died Nov. …
Harriet Lynn, a dancer and singer who appeared in the first production at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in 1967 and went on to testify against its demolition more than 40 years later, died …
Elizabeth Mary Schaaf, the retired Peabody Institute archivist who rescued the grace notes of Baltimore's musical history, died Thursday at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Go to a Greek festival, see a Broadway hit, watch pigs race, listen to classical musical or classic country music or enjoy a night of laughter.