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

The new year is bursting forth with intriguing theater productions spanning a wide range of genres. Five local shows are opening on the same date, Jan. 10, with another debuting on Jan. 17.

A city-wide festival, like the one launched a decade ago, would make a great venture for Baltimore's music, theater, art and history organizations.

The Contemporary museum brings in national artists; at the Ivy Bookshop, local icons discuss books that influenced their lives

Mac McGarry, the avuncular TV quizmaster of ¿It¿s Academic¿ who spent a half-century pitching local teenage contestants hundreds of thousands of fastball trivia questions about topics as diverse as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Chubby Checker and the chemical makeup of paint, died Dec. 12 at his home in Potomac, Maryland.

Paula Vogel's play with music "A Civil War Christmas" has set a box office record at Center Stage, leading to an extra performance.

Nothing 'same old, same old' about this brilliant look at Stephen Sondheim

Form the creators of "Next to Normal," "If/Then" features the dynamic Idina Menzel in a sometimes confusing musical about a woman restarting her life in New York.

For the first time this spring, college students wanting to take a class at the University of Baltimore with a Pulitzer prize-winning civil rights historian won't be bound by the university they chose to attend.

In addition to the usual flurry of such perennial favorites as Handel's "Messiah" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," this year's lineup gains fresh spice from several new-to-Baltimore productions, including a play about the last Christmas of the Civil War and stage adaptations of popular holiday movies.

In addition to the usual flurry of such perennial favorites as Handel's "Messiah" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," this year's lineup gains fresh spice from several new-to-Baltimore shows, including a play about the last Christmas of the Civil War and stage adaptations of popular holiday movies.

Philip L. Marcus, a former engineer and teacher who became a lawyer and a social activist, died Nov. 4 of bladder cancer at his home in Beaverton, Ore. The former Columbia resident was 71.

if you want proof that truth can be stranger than fiction, check out Doug Wright's "I Am My Own Wife." It's a documentary-style play based on interviews this contemporary American playwright did with an elderly transvestite who lived openly during the German Nazi regime and subsequently the East German communist regime.

Day trips from Baltimore

European leaders express outrage over U.S. spying, but maybe they're just jealous.

"The Warmth of Other Suns" explores the migration of black southerners to northern American cities between the 1920s and 1970s

"A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: The Raisin Cycle at Center Stage," a documentary that traces the arc of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama from its setting on Chicago's South Side to Baltimore's Center Stage in 2013, is one of the bolder and better things PBS has done this TV season.

Joel Brinkley makes a case for why Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is his people¿s own worst enemy.

Some things never really do change: The same alleged Lenin quote used to defeat President Truman's attempt to expand medical coverage has risen its head again, most recently by Dr. Ben Carson in slamming Obamacare. Trouble is, some scholars doubt the quote ever passed Lenin's lips.

Tom Clancy, the Baltimore-born author whose novels include "The Hunt for Red October, "Red Storm Rising" and "Patriot Games," died yesterday after a brief illness at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 66.

Showtime's "Homeland" returns with incisive looks at moral issues, politics.

While Washington is preoccupied with other things, Iranian President Hasan Rowhani may be opening the door to genuine progress.

If universities paid athletes, schools like Maryland wouldn't be able to compete.

Horton Foote crafted gentle dramas about ordinary lives. The late playwright's "A Young Lady of Property," which opens the Rep Stage season, is set in a Texas town in 1925. Although it's such an insular place that it seems unlikely the small-town gossip would even travel as far as the next town, Foote taps into dreams and disappointments that have universal application.

Designers in New York City showed their visions for spring 2014 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

"Someone: A Novel" traces the spiritual journey of an ordinary woman

First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?

Six free public lectures to be held at Johns Hopkins University

Although it could use some fine-tuning of dance numbers and some better singing voices, the Olney Theatre Centre staging of the 1975 musical 'A Chorus Line' has energy and heart.

Dr. Jacob C. Handelsman, a retired Baltimore surgeon whose career spanned six decades at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died July 1 from complications of dementia at Roland Park Place. He was 94.

Lawyers for John Norman Huffington, a Bel Air man who was twice convicted of killing a young man and young woman in Harford County in 1981, will argue for his release from prison on Thursday while Huffington awaits a new trial, granted this spring on the basis of discredited hair evidence presented at his two earlier trials.

Dr. Jacob C. Handelsman, a retired Baltimore surgeon whose career spanned six decades at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died July 1 from complications of dementia at Roland Park Place. He was 94.

The State Department damaged American interests with its reflexive support for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

America's second president may have been most instrumental of the Founding Fathers in the decision to declare independence.

Was it the racist remarks or the slipping ratings that did in the Southern celebrity chef?

Contrary to Chief Justice John Roberts' assertions, America still needs the full weight of the Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activists must step up to pressure Congress to restore it.

How will neo-cons justify a war with Iran now that it has a moderate president?

It's hard to get upset about the government snooping on us when half of corporate America is already doing it.

Michelle Obama's response to a heckler is a rebuke to in-your-face politics.

Area walkers are ready to move all night during the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life of western Howard County starting at 6:30 p.m. June 7

We'll never know what Hansberry might have had in store for the Younger family if she had written a sequel, but at Center Stage in Baltimore, the works of two playwrights who have given it a shot are currently on stage. Last month, the theater kicked off its "Raisin Cycle," in which two spinoffs of "A Raisin in the Sun" are running in rotation, using the same actors and stage, through June 16.

If China wins the future, it will happen because American leaders failed to stay in the game.

Composer D.J. Sparr grew up in Carroll County, graduated from Baltimore School for the Arts

The congressional inquiry in to the IRS handling of tea party groups smacked of Alice in Wonderland.

Kwame Kwei-Armah's absorbing, provocative new play is inspired by the Lorraine Hansberry classic 'Raising in the Sun' and the Bruce Norris hit 'Clybourne Park.'