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Tidewater Players, the community theatre of Havre de Grace, brightens the mid-winter mindset with its production of "Altar Boyz." The one-act musical comedy, a spoof of boy bands, stars five young lads—Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan… and Abraham.

For the first time on a Howard County high school stage, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Aida!" will be performed by the Centennial High School's theater department

Laurel's senior centers are offering variety of events in February.

Touring production of "Chicago" will feature John O'Hurley of "Seinfeld" and "Dancing with the Stars" fame at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre in March.

Ed and Becky Leister, of Westminster, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

After closing on Broadway, the musical based on 1992 Disney film ¿Newsies¿ has embarked on a national tour with a new cast and a new song. The show reaches Baltimore this week.

You can return to Bedford Falls this season via a "live radio play" at Center Stage.

Life along the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century is revisited in "Big River." This 1985 Broadway musical, whose seven Tony Awards included Best Musical, agreeably flows along in the Silhouette Stage's production at Slayton House Theater.

Opening Knights drama club presenting 'Little Women' at Century High School

Bianco performs as part of the BSO's Broadway Standing Ovations show Oct. 10-12

Glenelg High graduate Caroline Bowman is starring as Eva Peron in "Evita" at the Kennedy Center. She and other local artists who launched from Columbia are venturing back to town for "Bringing Broadway to Columbia," a Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts benefit at Toby's Dinner Theater Oct. 13. The show, staged every couple years, is a large-scale, variety program that brings theater and musical performers together at the place where many of them got their start.

Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia has always been a regional treasure for theatergoers, but the current production of "Memphis: The Musical" proves that no smash hit is too big for Toby's to produce with pizazz..

This year in particular should be a time of reflection for Perry Farrell, and yet the lead singer of Jane's Addiction can only seem to think ahead.

Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia has always been a regional resource for theatergoers, but the current production of "Memphis: The Musical" has a particular tie to our county with a trio of Anne Arundel Community College alumni offering stellar performances.

Stephen Sondheim's lengthy career as the composer of Broadway musicals gets sampled in the musical revue "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow," which you'll have the opportunity to love from Sept. 19 to 21 at Red Branch Theatre Company.

Hit indie film 'Once' inspires a hit stage musical, which is coming to the Hippodrome in Baltimore.

Val Jean Slowinski, a retired Towson University professor who had been active in Cockpit in Court Theater in Essex for more than two decades, died Wednesday at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin of a stroke. She was 78.

A recap of the Aug. 27 episode of "So You Think You Can Dance," as the Final Four perform

Throwback Thursday: The top 10 songs this week in 1963 [Videos]

Youngsters at the summer Vocal Camp in Howard County are learning the importance of bending their knees when they sing, lest they get dizzy, turn queasy and pass out.

There was Wendell Pierce last Sunday night, sitting at a bar, pounding down drink after drink and getting kind of emotional as he talked about how messed up things had gotten in his life.

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Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" was originally staged in 1879, but its melodious score and satirical spirit make it seem fresh today. That's why this Victorian-era British operetta works so well at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia, where contemporary Broadway musicals are the norm.

Fifty years after "The Addams Family" debuted on TV in black and white, John Astin still has that wild gleam in his eye and the same marvelous voice with its mischievous undertones.

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NEW YORK (AP) ¿ Who can forget the time he put a paper bag on his head that read "I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE"? Or when he was forced to apologize for plagiarizing parts of his short film? He then promised to retire from public life.

They say it ain't over until the fat lady sings, and the colorful life of the Havre de Grace Opera House is clearly far from over.

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In early summer 1969, Judy Garland died, the Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement and we were a month away from setting foot on the moon. And these were the tracks everyone was listening to, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

Sasha Allen, finalist on 'The Voice,' and Tony-winning John Rubinstein will be in touring production of Broadway musical 'Pippin' that plays Baltimore in 2015.

Thanks to the leadership of Howard County Summer Theater, who acquired one of the first community theater rights in the country to stage a full-length Broadway version of the show, "Les Miz" as its commonly known, will open on the Mt. Hebron High School stage

Infinity Theatre Company opened its fifth season this month in Annapolis with "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," another professional production solidifying the company's reputation as the summer destination of savvy fans seeking the best in local musical theater.

"Sister Act" opens June 4 and runs through June 15 at the Hippodrome, 12 N. Eutaw St.

For many people, summer arrives in Annapolis at the opening of Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre — which usually coincides with the U.S. Naval Academy commissioning week. That tradition continued last week, as the troupe debuted its 49th season under the stars by celebrating the quintessential American art form of the Broadway musical, with "42nd Street."

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Alan Walden, the former WBAL radio anchor, has been emceeing the Memorial Day event at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens for 25 years and is a huge supporter of the military. He lives in Cross Keys.

Dressed in skinny jeans, flats, a white shirt and still wearing her stage makeup, the petite Ashley Blair Fitzgerald sits cross-legged in a small conference room after her matinee performance in "Smokey Joe's Cafe" at Arena Stage in Washington.

The Fantasticks" is a musical that has a fantastic history. This boy-meets-girl musical first opened in New York City in 1960 and had a 42-year-long off-Broadway run. A revival opened in New York in 2006 and is still running. By way of its ongoing vitality on a local level, the show currently is being given an enjoyable Rep Stage production.

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