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Patrick J. Regal, who teaches seventh-grade English and language arts at Mount Royal Elementary/Middle School, launched a Kickstarter campaign to support Charm City Classics Company.

Stephen R. Hayes, a professional actor and director, died June 16 of complications of Marfan syndrome at his Cockeysville, Maryland, home. He was 59.

Two weeks before the opening of Howard County Summer Theater’s production of “The Pajama Game,” the backstage of Mt. Hebron High School was bustling.

In the very best musicals, the show itself is the star. "Hamilton" is one of those musicals.

Love and laughter are in the air at Laurel Mill Playhouse, where “Charley’s Aunt” brings lighthearted humor that has stood the test of time.

In keeping with “Hamilton’s” revolutionary spirit, below are the answers to 17.76 questions that will tell you everything you need to know about the musical.

When Baltimore native and Baltimore City College graduate, André De Shields won a Tony award on Sunday he shouted out his hometown from the stage.

Five things to know about André De Shields, Tony Award winner for best featured actor in a musical for his role as Hermes in “Hadestown.”

Andre De Shields won a Tony award for best featured actor in a musical for his role as Hermes in "Hadestown."

Bowie-based 2nd Star Productions’ current run of “Gypsy” offers a delightful trip down memory lane for fans of American musical theater.

The class of more than 360 students graduated from Bel Air High School May 30.

Harry G. Porterfield, who taught in Baltimore public schools and wrote plays, died May 17 from cancer at his Hamilton home. He was 82.

Stephen L. Levinson was the owner of the Café des Artistes alongside the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in downtown Baltimore.

For much of her life, Caleen Sinnette Jennings couldn’t find a community to which she belonged. Two of her plays about that experience are at Everyman Theatre.

Several people camped overnight and took shifts in line to make sure they'd be inside when America's biggest musical hits the Hippodrome stage.

Rep Stage’s 26th season at the Horowitz Center for the Arts is closing with a madcap bang in the current run of Patrick Barlow’s “The 39 Steps,” a raucous family-friendly farce calling to film noir buffs and anyone in love with the magic of theater.

Members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will head to the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Southeast Anchor Branch in Highlandtown to perform Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” a classic among pieces written specifically for children.

Everyman Theatre will be opening a second stage and expanding its offerings from five to eight shows. The upstairs theater will host the New Voices Festival — and each of the three playwrights to be featured during the inaugural season is female.

Laurel Mill Playhouse is ushering in spring with a winning production of “Jekyll & Hyde,” a musical horror-drama loosely based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella that has thrilled readers since “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” sprang to life in the late 19th century.

It is safe to assume that most of the audience will be able to name that tune during the Columbia Pro Cantare’s “Salute to George Gershwin and Jerome Kern” on Saturday at 8 p.m. at Jim Rouse Theatre.

Baltimore-born actor Andre De Shields was nominated Tuesday for his third Tony Award for his performance of the Greek god Hermes in the musical, "Hadestown"

Settle in at Toby’s Dinner Theatre and you can count on these staples: the spinach phunque, the sundae bar and a performance by an ageless character actor named Robert Biedermann.

In the era of #MeToo, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has hired its first "intimacy choreographer" to ensure that an innocent kiss in the upcoming production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" stays that way.

On April 26, Carroll Community College will host its first Art Open House which includes hands-on demonstrations, artist talks in the gallery and a performance of "Guys and Dolls."

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” runs through May 19 at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia.

The Baltimore Sun’s readers and staff scoured the region for the best activities and entertainment, from art galleries to wedding venues. Here’s who came out on top in 2019.

Despite its classy sounding name, the Alamedean Light Opera Company in Baltimore was little more than an amateur theater group. Composed mostly of wannabe opera singers, some with damn fine voices, the company produced standard fare operettas at the old Poly high school in the '40s and '50s.

The upcoming production of “Porgy and Bess” by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir is back by popular demand.

“Scotland Road” runs for two more performances, April 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the APL Parsons Auditorium, JHUAPL, 1110 Johns Hopkins Road.

This is a concert that is open to the public and that will mix performers with autism with performers without it. The audience also will include folks with autism who might jump up and down in front of the stage, or actually climb the stage and put their hands on a cello.

Schools participate in state Thespian Festival

A group of Towson residents performed in a stage production of "Mamma Mia," although some hadn't been on stage for many years.

"Fosse/Verdon" on FX will appeal even to those who aren't interested in Broadway.

Rosemary Knower, an actress who played roles from Lady Macbeth to a schoolteacher in John Waters’ “Hairspray,” died of a stroke Wednesday at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. The former North Baltimore resident was 76.

Musicians from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University head to Washington, D.C. this weekend to take part in Direct Current, the Kennedy Center’s two-week festival of contemporary and interdisciplinary performance.

Theater review of Laurel Mill Playhouse's production of "Calendar Girls" playing through April 7.

Reservoir High's production of "Newsies" will be performed March 29, 30 and 31 and April 5 and 6.

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The Howard County Arts Council will host the 22nd annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Inside the Everyman Theatre's production of "Dinner With Friends," we look at what goes into creating stage food, which should look like the real thing, be minimally edible and — with luck — not stink.

"Empire" star Taye Diggs will direct a show at Center Stage this fall.

Review of Silhouette Stages production of "Anything Goes" playing through March 24.

More tidbits about Laurel's appearance in Hollywood

Review of Rep Stage's production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" playing through March 16.

C. Herbert Wineholt Jr., a retired Mangels-Herrold Co. executive who was a lifelong patron of the arts, died Feb. 14 from heart failure at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center at age 88.

Heritage Players presents a concert version of "Sweeney Todd' featuring members of Columbia Orchestra on March 8, 9 and 10.

One area Howard County can certainly boast about is its vibrant arts scene, with an abundance of choices that include theater, music and dance companies, as well as free outdoor concerts at downtown Columbia’s Lakefront on Lake Kittamaqundi, Centennial Park and Columbia’s village centers.

Three Howard County students will compete in the state finals of Poetry Out Loud from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 2, in the Meyerhoff Auditorium at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore.

Mark Bramble, a McDonough School graduate who went on to Broadway and London theater, won three Tony Awards.

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