Go ahead and cancel your bus tickets to New York. Two of the most acclaimed musicals of the past few years will anchor the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center’s 2019-2020 season, the venue’s president announced Thursday. “The Band’s Visit,” which in 2018 became one of just four musicals to capture...
Alicia Keys usually attends the Grammys, but this year she'll be there as a host. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the R&B star will host the Feb. 10 show for the first time. The Grammys will air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Keys has won 15 Grammys. She says in...
NBC will be highlighting an Anne Arundel murder investigation Friday on Dateline, focusing on how it took investigators several years to convict an Army soldier in the death of his wife in Severn. The program, which airs at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard time, will feature an hour-long special called...
Single Carrot Theatre will take a bold leap into the unknown this June when it gives up its permanent performing home at 2600 N. Howard St. Instead, the 12-year-old troupe will conduct a series of environmental performances in unusual settings — perhaps a private home, church or bus — that reflect...
Jephta P. Drachman, an artist and former president of the Shriver Hall Concert Series, died Thursday of Parkinson’s disease at her Stevenson home. She was 81. The former Jephta Piatigorsky was born in Paris, the daughter of Gregor Piatigorsky, a famed Russian cellist, and his wife Jacqueline de...
More concert-goers will soon be able to experience the suite life at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. Thirty suites are being added to the venue’s amphitheater as part of a six-year, $58 million renovation project, according to Audrey Fix Schaefer, communications director for I.M.P., the...
The tuba players sat in wooden chairs before the altar, where the trombonists, horns and trumpets jostled for space. They closed with Wagner’s “Gathering of the Armies from Lohengrin.” Performers from Washington and Pennsylvania joined brass musicians with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday...
Nobody ever lost money remaking “A Star is Born,” Hollywood’s favorite tragic romantic fable. Whether it’s any good doesn’t matter. To wit: The 1976 Barbra Streisand/ Kris Kristofferson remake wasn’t good, but you believed the archetypal show business lovers had musical talent. And they could act,...
Superhero fatigue got you down? Tired of the same old bland Marvel Cinematic Universe offerings? A dose of "Venom" could be just the right antidote. This dark, wacky MCU-associated outing combines one of the most interesting contemporary leading men with a daring director who has a hit-or-miss...
An earlier version of this review had an incorrect name of an actor. Am I asking too much of “Night School”? It’s no big thing, this new movie starring Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, and nobody’s expecting a formula-, game- or life-changer. You just don’t want to leave feeling shortchanged. Right...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as the saying goes. That seems to be the approach taken by the screenwriters of the new animated feature "Smallfoot." The story is actually "Bigfoot," but it hinges on a clever reversal of perspective, centering on a tribe of Yetis in the Himalayas who fear the...