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Vincent Lancisi directs Baltimore premiere of Nina Raine's 'Tribes' with a strong cast that includes deaf actor John McGinty.

Baltimore theater fans are hard-pressed as of late to find a reason to leave the city with so much available right at home: superb local theater companies and community theaters and the renovated Hippodrome. It's a welcome revival of an industry the city was once known for.

Many a play deals with language and communication. There is always theatrical ore to be mined in the way people express themselves — or fail to — and how that can complicate so many things in life.

Millie Tyssowski, a retired Medicare executive and Social Security Administration budgeting official, died of congestive heart failure May 16 at Sinai Hospital. The Dickeyville resident was 93.

Baltimore's Everyman Theatre is among the first companies in the country to offer handheld closed captioning devices for all performances.

What Lancisi devised for 2014-2015 is a promising mix of three Baltimore premieres, including Lynn Nottage's "Ruined," and three vintage plays, including Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit."

Lynn Nottage's "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," a comic-serious examination of race, women and Hollywood gets vibrant staging by Everyman Theatre.

Movie sequence crucial to play about race, family and Hollywood

Jodi Levitan still gets choked up when she talks about her father, who died of dementia on Father's Day of 2012. Her mother, the caretaker, died of cancer and was buried on Mother's Day, 2013. On Saturday, April 8, Levitan and her husband, Scott, will be dancing the cha cha and Western swing at the annual Memory Ball, a fundraiser for memory loss and Alzheimer's research.

Columbia's Red Branch Theatre Company is about to have two musicals running in repertory that hopefully won't have the theater staff running out of breath. The pairing is titled "The Love/Loss Cycle." It consists of "The Last Five Years," opening on Friday, April 4, and "john and jen," opening on April 18.

Interrobang Theatre Company, founded by UMBC grads, caters to younger crowd.

Nancy P. Cooke, who worked for many years in real estate sales for Chase Fitzgerald & Co. Inc. and was an active outdoorswoman, died March 7 of cancer at Roland Park Place. She was 87.

Current, future presidents of downtown theater sound hopeful notes

Edie Brown of Mays Chapel is a PR powershouse; Chiara Menegatti, 10, of Lutherville Laboratory Elementary and Grace Black, also 10, of St. Paul's School for Girls were winner and runnerup of a basketball shootout held recently at Ridgely Middle School.

Baltimore officials are laying the groundwork for a major overhaul of the city-owned Lexington Market that could cost as much as $25 million. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and market managers believe a redesigned building and better vendor mix — less fast food, more fresh, gourmet and ethnic fare — could lure back the middle-income shoppers who abandoned it long ago. But officials acknowledge that managing what happens outside, including open-air drug sales, is vital to achieving

The contemporary American restaurant hopes to draw theater-goers and the university community

Ronald Harwood's 1980 play about an aging Shakespearean actor and his overly devoted dresser has received a stylish staging featuring Carl Schurr as Sir, Bruce Randolph Nelson as Norman.

Tony Foreman teaming up with Everyman Theatre for Vino Festa

Ron Legler of Florida Theatrical Association succeeds Jeff Daniel at key west-side site

Theater troupe moves into new home in Remington

Center Stage production of 1996 two-hander by Marie Jones about American film company in rural Ireland features Clinton Brandhagen and Todd Lawson.

Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981, gets an insightful production with a tight-knit cast at Everyman Theatre.

Up and coming Single Carrot Theatre is making its move to its permanent home, in the old Mr. James Tire Shop, one of the Seawall redevelopment properties. Single Carrot will open its first show in the new space Jan. 24.

Everyman Theatre company reports increase in subscribers, tweaks to facility as year anniversary approaches.

Yes, the theater scene in Baltimore is ever-growing and diversifying. But it also prides itself on being collaborative and supportive of each other.