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Stoop Storytelling show features offbeat coming out story

In seven minutes, Tim Kuhn will progress from first date to realizing he'll never be straight. And that terrifies him.

Poe House reopening planned for October

Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week.

Lyric Opera Baltimore salutes Verdi bicentennial with 'Rigoletto'

The production brings tenor Bryan Hymel back to town to play the role of the vile, lecherous Duke.

Back Story: Arts patron revives outdoor festival in Druid Hill

After 40-year hiatus, event to also celebrate park will be held Sunday.

Katherine L. Vaughns, Center Stage and Film Festival boardmember, dies at 68

Maryland law professor had immersed herself in the arts community.

Figaro Project gives admirable premiere of 'Camelot Requiem'

Since "Nixon in China," the 1987 masterwork by John Adams that launched what some wag described as a new genre labeled "CNN Opera," contemporary events have been fairer game than ever for composers and librettists.

Rep Stage sets 2013-2014 season

Rep Stage, the fine professional company in residence at Howard Community College (the emphasis is on Equity, not college), will explore vintage and contemporary works during its 21st season.

Curtain falls Sunday on Bay Theatre in Annapolis

When Bay Theatre Company actors take their bows at the end of Arthur Miller's "The Price" on Sunday, they may be their last for a while.

Peabody director Sharkey to step down

After seven years as director of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Jeffrey Sharkey is stepping down. He will remain with the conservatory until a successor is named.

Partnered with BSO, Parsons unveils new styles for musicians

Violinist Ellen Pendleton Troyer has struggled for years with the constraints of wearing evening attire for physical, sometimes-strenuous performances. And she considers herself luckier than her male counterparts, who have a stricter dress code of bow ties and evening jackets adorned with tails.

Author Lisa Scottoline talks grief, crabs, podiatry

On paper, Lisa Scottoline is a little intimidating.

Verdi, Puccini, Poulenc for 2013-2014 season at the Lyric

The 2013-2014 opera season at the Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric will have a lot in common with the 2012-2013 season -- staged works by Verdi and Puccini produced by Lyric Opera Baltimore, with a concert in between.

A 'Scary Mommy' sort of Mother's day

Baltimore's Jill Smokler, aka Scary Mommy, discusses her new book and motherhood.

'Murdercastle' a dark departure for the Baltimore Rock Opera Society

Full-length 'metal opera' focused on serial killer H.H. Holmes.

Caton connection delivers at Walters

A neglected 19th-century Baltimore artist gets some 21st-century recognition in an exhibit at the Walters Art Museum.

National tour of 'American Idiot' hits Baltimore

“American Idiot,” the 2010 Broadway hit musical — the first punk rock opera, really — now at the Hippodrome, paints a searing portrait of restless, reckless youth, with all the sex, drugs and violence you’d expect from a disaffected generation.

Neil Patrick Harris back as Tony Awards host for 2013

Rejoice, Broadway fans! Neil Patrick Harris is returning to host the 2013 Tony Awards.

Washington National Opera presents revelatory 'Show Boat'

Time was when American opera companies considered musicals as suspect artifacts from another planet, hardly worthy of serious attention.

A 'Requiem' for JFK assassination

Figaro Project's 'Camelot Requiem' opera debuts at First & Franklin Presbyterian Church.

Baltimore Symphony affirms its quality in Carnegie Hall concert

The good news about the Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall is that it chooses American orchestras of all sizes to bring off-the-beaten-path programs to the nation's premier classical music showplace, and charges only $25 a seat.

FROM SUN MAGAZINE
Q&A with Mink Stole

Alumna of John Waters films tries her hand at music.

Endangered Hopkins museum exhibit back on schedule, minus two pieces

An exhibit at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen House that was thrown into doubt this week is back on, but without two artworks at the crux of a dispute between the artist and the curator.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, O'Malley make Carnegie Hall appearance

NEW YORK -- Carnegie Hall put out the purple Monday night to welcome the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the opening of Spring For Music, a week-long festival showcasing American orchestras playing adventurous programs. Ravens-colored cloths adorned the seat backs of the musicians’ chairs and...

Harper Lee lawsuit breaks years of silence

Harper Lee's leap into the headlines with a lawsuit against a New York literary agent is a remarkable change for the reclusive author, who wrote a great American novel a half-century ago and has hardly been heard from since.

Season finales from Choral Arts Society, Shriver Hall

Sunday's musical splendors, for me, started with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society's season finale in the afternoon at Grace United Methodist Church.

Scary Mommy book signing at Wee Chic

Wee Chic, a children's boutique in Green Spring Station, is hosting a an event with author Jill Smokler on Wednesday, May 29, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman visits Baltimore

Plunging into a novel by James Kelman is like diving head-first into a chilly lake.

Marin Alsop leads Baltimore Symphony in propulsive program

If it has a good beat, you can count on Marin Alsop to conduct it with infectious energy. That point is being driven home by her latest program with the Baltimore Symphony, which has one more local performance before the orchestra takes it to Carnegie Hall on Monday.

WPAS presents soaring concert by Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra has had its share of troubles over the years, including an embarrassing brush with bankruptcy, but things sure sound like they are looking up, way up, these days.

Baltimore School for the Arts earns first Tony nod, for actress Shalita Grant

Actress appears in 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike'; producer is Baltimore native