richard burton
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It seems fitting that Colonial Players is presenting the towering 1962 work "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' so closely following the death of its playwright, Edward Albee, who died just last month at age 88. - Award-winning character actor George Rose, who met ignoble end, is recalled in one-man play written and performed by his friend Ed Dixon.
- Jed Dietz, founding director of the Maryland Film Festival, has long been impressed with one of Baltimore's most storied former theaters, the Parkway at 5 W. North Ave., in the city's Station North arts and entertainment district. He is leading an $18.2 million effort to restore and expand the vacant, deteriorating theater, which turns 100 this week, as a three-screen, 600-seat multiplex to be called the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Film Center.
- I hope those who know Joan Rivers only from her work the last couple of decades on shows like ¿Fashion Police¿ will take the time to read some of the appreciations that talk about who she used to be.
- "Abuse of Weakness," the latest work from controversial French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, will get its Maryland premiere at the 2014 Maryland Film Festival
- The Northeastern Expressway was expected to be renamed for the late President John F. Kennedy on December 11
- Stringer Bell, John Luther, Nelson Mandela and maybe the next James Bond -- the career of Idris Elba is on the rise.
- Dominic West, from McNulty's barstool in Baltimore to Liz Taylor's bed.
- It would be hard to find any leading actor in American TV drama whose proven range is greater than that of Dominic West, star of BBC America¿s ¿The Hour.¿
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- Everyman Theatre mounts an expert revival of Coward's 'Private Lives'
- Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend writes about home births in The Atlantic. Townsend gave birth to three of her four daughters at home.
