The gifted actor Robert Guillaume, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, had a brief time in a Baltimore spotlight during the years when his career focused primarily on theater. Guillaume starr…
It isn't always easy to get some good old suspense going in a theater, let alone keep intensifying the edginess. Stephen Mallatratt's adaption of the Susan Hill novel "The Woman in Black" ma…
Lynn Nottage gives voice in her plays to people kept on the margins of society or the news media, people confined to the footnotes of history. Her 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, "Sweat," …
Partway through "Lear," the quirky, multi-layered play by Young Jean Lee receiving a vibrant regional premiere at Single Carrot Theatre, someone says: "What are you talking about?" Audience …
The back story of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock" " the government's shut down of the theater to prevent the New York premiere; the cast trekking uptown to another venue so the show…
No crashing chandelier. No need for one. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies," the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera," offers its own distinctive attractions, visual and musical.Judging…
On the day 80 years ago that a pro-labor, anti-monopoly/corruption/greed stage work was about to be premiered in New York, a wind from the federal government blew and down came the productio…
When it comes to feuding, no one did it better than the Hatfield and McCoy clans in a region between West Virginia and Kentucky during the 1870s and '80s, holding grudges and, at periodic in…
If you ever doubted that the truth can be stranger than fiction, you need only take a cursory glance at the celebrated case of love and espionage involving mid-level French diplomat Bernard …
If you judged by the 2015 revival on Broadway, the late Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play "The Heidi Chronicles" must be passe.The short-lived production lasted…
As part of The Baltimore Sun's Fall Arts Guide, we're picking the best arts activities coming to the area this fall. Here's the best of what the theater scene has to offer. For more, see bes…
North Avenue received an extra jolt last year when the theater troupe ArtsCentric started to make its home base in the already humming arts hub Motor House and delivered a big, buoyant produ…
Stillpointe Theatre, which has a fine track record of reviving musicals, has taken a fresh look at "Tick, Tick … Boom," an autobiographical work from 1990 by Jonathan Larson, written six y…
The term "hero" gets tossed around so liberally these days that it feels good to be reminded of someone who fits the bill thoroughly " Thurgood Marshall, the subject of a one-man play enjoyi…
Classical music concerts and theater productions might be fewer during summer months in Baltimore, but there's still a lot of activity on the calendar. Eclectic activity, even, as this weeke…
If you missed the Broadway production of "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" " it opened at Studio 54 last October and closed in mid-January " or want to enjoy it again, the Hippodrome Theatre wil…
For some theater companies, every summer brings a welcome opportunity to step outside and put a literal spin on Shakespeare's all-the-world's-a-stage notion. In the Baltimore-Annapolis area,…
All the streets will be a stage when Single Carrot Theatre welcomes audiences aboard a bus for the world premiere of its traveling production "Promenade: Baltimore," starting June 2. For ab…
And you thought the secret of the universe was deep. Nope. It all boils down to just doors and sardines. This piece of wisdom gets dispatched early on in "Noises Off," the intricately stitch…
Sometimes, you just feel like a farce. That time appears to be now, at least in Baltimore, where Everyman Theatre reports extra interest in its production of Michael Frayn's farcical romp of…
It's one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-that ideas that actually worked.In 2004, two friends in New York " Baltimore-born Jeff Bowen and Alabama native Hunter Bell " spotted an announcement …
Andy Karl, the actor who grew up in Timonium and got the theater bug starring in a musical at Towson High School, has received a Tony Award nomination as best leading actor in a musical for …
Try to remember the first time you encountered "The Fantasticks," the world's longest-running musical. (The original 1960 off-Broadway production ran 42 years; the 2006 New York revival will…
For its 27th season, Everyman Theatre will showcase works by women, including 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. That four of six playwrights represented are women was not part of …
There's serendipitous timing in the arrival of "Annie" at the Lyric Opera House on Friday. This national touring production of the popular musical will open its short Baltimore visit with a …