Since its Broadway premiere in 1964, "Fiddler on the Roof" has ranked among the most beloved and most performed musicals. Fueled by a bevy of indelible songs " music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by…
Early in "Dancing at Lughnasa," the finely textured memory play by Brian Friel receiving an effective revival at Everyman Theatre, the narrator sets the scene " a rural Irish home shared by …
Stephanie Ybarra, director of special artistic projects at New York's Public Theater, has been named artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage. Ybarra will succeed Kwame Kwei-Armah, who wo…
Back in the days when Everyman Theatre was located in cramped quarters on North Charles Street, the company periodically inserted modest musical revues into the lineup. I remember enjoyable …
Single Carrot Theatre, the ambitious troupe that has stirred up Baltimore's cultural life with provocative productions since 2007, is facing a financial crisis. The company has issued a plea…
Complaints and taunts aimed at immigrants. A sex scandal involving a high government official. Intense partisan bickering fueled by short-fused tempers. Tired of being bombarded with all tho…
The final performance is not until June 10, but Karen Hartman's "The Book of Joseph" is already Everyman Theatre's highest-grossing production. The previous record-holder for the company was…
Working as a reporter for the Baltimore News American and WBAL-TV decades ago, Richard Hollander routinely followed leads. But when a dreadful incident in his own life " the 1986 death of hi…
Eerie wails of coyotes, mixing with the ceaseless drone of crickets, might conjure up something of the old, rugged American West. But heard from inside a suburban Southern California home, t…
The ingredients in "Aubergine," Julia Cho's play receiving an effective staging at Everyman Theatre, are not all that unusual " cups of relationship issues and family tensions, dashes of hea…
"School of Rock," the musical in session at the Hippodrome Theatre through the weekend, is for every kid (or former kid) who ever felt un-cool, un-liked. It's also for every adult who might …
The ever-expanding movie-to-stage-musical genre gained a sizable entry with "School of Rock," which opened on Broadway in 2015 and hasn't taken a recess yet. Meanwhile, the national touring …
You're probably tired of hearing about vintage literary works that seem more relevant than ever. After all, the great ones will always speak in one way or another to contemporary issues, dec…
When Everyman Theatre artistic director Vincent Lancisi saw the Off Broadway premiere production of Julia Cho's "Aubergine" in 2016, he found himself hooked from the opening monologue of the…
For its 56th season, Baltimore Center Stage will deliver a production of the Tony Award-winning musical "Fun Home" and the recent New York hit "Indecent," along with an American theater clas…
Hey, you young rockers or wannabes: On March 11, producers of "School of Rock," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the movie about a down-on-his-luck rocker who creates a band of fifth…
There's really no laughing matter in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," the epic play that has received an impressive revival at Everyman Theatre. But at one point, as that ni…
The central character in "Waitress," the deft musical adaptation of the 2007 film now at the Hippodrome Theatre, speaks for many women when she says that she just won't settle anymore for be…
A bounty of theater productions is heating up mid-winter in Baltimore. Within the space of a few days, a hit Broadway musical and a vintage feminist play will be onstage, both gaining fresh …
The long-anticipated arrival of the uber-musical "Hamilton" in Baltimore will take place June 25 to July 21, 2019, capping a Hippodrome Theatre season spiced by current and recent Broadway s…
There's something about "The Revolutionists," Lauren Gunderson's funny and moving play now galvanizing the stage of Everyman Theatre, that perfectly matches the tenor of our time. Blending f…
Since the first time was the charm " "The Lion King" played 14 weeks to packed houses at the Hippodrome Theatre on its initial visit in 2005 " what to make of the third time for this epic Di…
Only the incurably humbug-prone would bemoan the plentiful adaptations of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" lighting up theaters this season in the Baltimore-Annapolis area. For whatever …
When the sun first rose on Pride Rock 20 years ago at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York, as a mandrill named Rafiki summoned all the animals to welcome Simba, newborn lion cub of King Mu…
Esther, the seamstress at the heart of Lynn Nottage's richly embroidered drama "Intimate Apparel" enjoying an ardent revival at Everyman Theatre, felt "as though God kissed my hands" the fir…