Playing 'Color Purple' in Washington
When Fantasia Barrino opens her mouth as Celie in the national tour of 'The Color Purple' and belts out the lyrics to "I'm Here," she could be talking about her own life.
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Next stop for Tube riders on London subway: enlightenment
The next train is for Heathrow Airport, via Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus -- and spiritual enlightenment.
David Mamet to have world premiere play in New York this fall
New York is getting another David Mamet world premiere.
Overnight adventures offer a different kind of visit to local attractions
Here's something you may not know about the sharks at the National Aquarium in Baltimore: They're often up at 1 a.m., drifting aimlessly like long-finned insomniacs.
A premiere for Choral Arts Society
The Baltimore Choral Arts Society's 2009-2010 season will sample various musical styles, from a classically proportioned Schubert Mass to the premiere of a gospel-influenced work by African-American composer Rosephanye Dunn Powell.
AVAM's quirky treasures are headed to NYC's Fifth Avenue
Some 50 pieces from Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, a repository for the work of self-trained artists guided by their own unique and often impossible-to-define visions, will be gazing out from famed retailer Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue display windows for the next month.
USS Constellation Historic Ships Museum's 10th Annual BLAST!
If only the original sailors on the Constellation had it as good as the recent crew aboard the former Civil War ship. Raw bars were set up both "fore" and "aft." There were tables featuring mounds of Chinese noodles, seared tuna and shrimp...
Baltimore Playwrights Festival opens
'Bloodlines' at Fells Point Corner Theater is first of 10 original productions
New venue for Mobtown Modern
Mobtown Modern, the most way-out-there music organization in Baltimore, has announced another boldly unconventional lineup for the 2009-2010 season, along with a new venue.
Theatre Project's new season keeps its provocative tradition
Paper birds, puppets, grandmothers and private eyes - a line-up this diverse could only be offered by Baltimore's Theatre Project
Ukulele is transformed in Jake Shimabukuro's hands
Outside of Hawaii, the ukulele was once most associated with things like college kids strumming fox trots in the 1920s. Or radio/TV personality Arthur Godfrey doing his folksy thing in the 1940s and 1950s. And then, of course, Tiny Tim in the 1960s, accompanying himself on that diminutive instrument...
That's a wrap for the BSO
With a coming-full-circle flourish, the Baltimore Symphony is putting the grand in the grand finale of its 2008-2009 season.
Springing ahead
Michael Mayer is one of the most successful, sought-after play doctors on Broadway. He has won a Tony Award and worked with major playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Tony Kushner.
With 'Looped,' Valerie Harper and Arena Stage go for a spirited spin
"Everyone has their vices," says Tallulah Bankhead, as reincarnated in Matthew Lombardo's play Looped. "Mine just all come out to play at the same time."
Merce Cunningham, 90, plans dance company's future
Choreographer Merce Cunningham is preparing for the future with a "living legacy" plan to preserve his life's work after the 90-year-old can no longer lead his dance company.
'Spring Awakening' provocatively fuses the Victorian and modern worlds
As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, issues that had long been unspoken, long kept under wraps, began to surface. One, in particular, jumped out to startle people right out of their Puritanical/Victorian comfort zones -- sex.
