Mark Bramble, a McDonogh School graduate who went on to earn plaudits on Broadway and London as a director, author and producer, died of a stroke Feb. 20 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 68 and lived at a home on the grounds of his family’s Tolchester farm. He was nominated...
Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations each while Grammy album of the year winner Kacey Musgraves comes in with five nominations. Reba McEntire, who is hosting the show for a record 16th time, announced the nominees in top categories on...
Four years ago, when Jon Stewart was signing off the nightly airwaves and Stephen Colbert was leaving the relative freedom of Comedy Central for the more tightly regulated network world of CBS, I worried in these pages about the future of political satire on television. After all, I argued, just...
Last weekend marked the closing of the yearlong bicentennial of Frederick Douglass. But fear not, the spirit of the famed Maryland abolitionist carries on at the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Through the end of the month, visitors have a chance to view the Frederick Douglass Reading Room at the museum,...
More than 70 years ago, a young soldier was separated from his sweetheart by an ocean and World War II. He imagined the two of them gazing at the same constellations from different hemispheres, and wrote her the following lines: ”What are you doing tonight? How about a date? I’ve rented a moon,...
Laughter to light Old Town’s winter nights appears to be on a roll at the Laurel Mill Playhouse in its current run of “12 Incompetent Jurors” — a parody of the 1950s drama “12 Angry Men” — written by American actor/playwright Ian McWethy. McWethy has 27 one-acts (15 have been performed across the...
Those looking for a quick introduction to what’s happening in the dance world could spend a bundle on a whirlwind excursion to Manhattan. Or they could drop by Howard Community College this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10, where faculty and students are mounting the 11th annual Howard County...
Michael (Mark Duplass) and Andy ( Ray Romano ) are neighbors. But they're more like platonic life partners. They make pizza, watch kung fu movies and play a made-up game with rackets, balls and a barrel called Paddleton. It's an easy, mundane and emotionally stunted existence, made comfortable...
The more globally famous the celebrity, the tougher audiences tend to be on a biopic. Unless it’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” because, you know. All those hits. A different sort of hit-making and punishment-taking sets the tone in “Fighting with My Family,” based on a true story. It’s not a story, or...
Leaving his Iranian homeland to make the film “The Past,” in France, the writer-director Asghar Farhadi regarded his new surroundings like a native, not a tourist. He kept his tense characters mostly confined to cramped interior spaces. There was little relief, or sunshine, in the filmmaker’s view...
"Never Look Away," an absorbing and ruminative new drama from the German writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, begins in Dresden in 1937. The world is about to tilt into madness, a condition that seems to manifest itself early on in the brave, troubled mind of a young woman named Elisabeth...