Thursday, August 27, 2020
Four vocalists, three instrumentalists, and two dancers. That’s the field competing this year for the title of Howard County’s Rising Star, an honor bestowed annually at the Celebration …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:01AMMonday, August 3, 2020
It’s no secret that Toby Orenstein has a direct pipeline to Broadway and Hollywood. This is especially true for the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA) where it all started for s…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:53AMSunday, August 2, 2020
In this difficult time of social unrest Razzle Dazzle Radio explored the history of Gay Pride in Howard County and the world of cross-dressing in theater in Howard County and beyond. Larry M…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 05:40PMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Tony Shalhoub is a man of many talents. He sings, dances, and portrays unparalleled characters. Think Monk on TV who brought awareness to OCD; the sensitive Egyptian Captain in the award-win…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:48PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
During the summer of 1984, young Edward Norton interviewed Columbia’s founder James W. Rouse for a teenage television program called “The Graffiti Show.” Jim Rouse looked directly into…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06PMFriday, May 29, 2020
What better way to celebrate President John F. Kennedy’s 103rd birthday than by watching an original taping of “Revelations,” performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at the…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:01PMThursday, May 14, 2020
Here are a few tantalizing tidbits about our country’s premiere dance company, American Ballet Theatre, celebrating its 80th anniversary online, and its long history of fabulous galas, bot…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:58PMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Years ago we critics often crashed parties after a show at the Kennedy Center or the long-gone Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore. Those were the days of unabashed fun, following the to…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 12:59PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Looking for a respite from the political chaos that surrounds us? Care to leave your troubles behind? How about an escape to the world of energizing, uplifting dance? Catch America’s favor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMThursday, January 30, 2020
For the record, classical ballet dancers do let loose once in a while. They enjoy tossing off those stiff upper body movements and tapping their toe shoes to a syncopated beat rather than fo…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 04:30PMThursday, January 2, 2020
Balletomanes gather each fall, winter, and spring season to catch the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center or Sidney Harman Hall, depending on the production. However, the man usually sit…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 02:17PMSunday, December 15, 2019
Rebecca “Becca” Friedman has walked the steps of so many visionary dancers before her. From her childhood gracing the Howard County stages as the Sugarplum Fairy to her contemporary danc…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 08:47AMFriday, November 15, 2019
Once again, Olney Theatre Center (OTC) has put on a tap-happy show. This time it’s Singin’ in the Rain, where the audience hums the familiar tunes as they ratta-ta-tap back to their cars…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMSaturday, August 10, 2019
These are heady times for Toby Orenstein. This weekend she commemorates 47 years as founding artistic director of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA) and four decades at the helm …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:18AMSunday, June 2, 2019
Sometime in the early 21st century, the dance planners at the Kennedy Center came up with a terrific idea: Invite nine regional ballet companies to perform one special work in three separat…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:25PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
It was a tony crowd that gathered at the Cured, a cool restaurant that celebrates the history of Merriweather Post Pavilion with posters throughout the bar and dining area. These folks – a…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:40PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Whoever said “Timing Is Everything” must appreciate Shakespeare and should value the skills of contemporary playwright Ken Ludwig whose “A Comedy of Tenors” opened without a hitch la…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:06AMSunday, April 14, 2019
More than any other major dance company, the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater attracts an audience looking for a fun night on the town. These fans – who will no doubt be out…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 10:33PMThursday, April 4, 2019
That grey cloud that has been hovering over the New York City Ballet for quite a while has lifted – at least it did last night at the Kennedy Center where everything was beautiful at the b…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:21AMThursday, January 31, 2019
Marius Petipa must have been smiling from his grave last night when the American Ballet Theatre presented another brilliant Russian choreographer’s staging of Petipa’s Harlequinade. This…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer for the San Francisco Ballet, deserves a Kennedy Center Honor. Yep, the Icelandic native (with a lifelong devotion to ballet) no…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:02PMSaturday, October 20, 2018
If the powerful performance of “Dog without Feathers” at the Eisenhower Theater last night is any indication of what the Kennedy Center’s Ballet & Dance Season has to…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Move over Stephen Sondheim. There’s a new kid on the block. And, he’s coming to Broadway with some musical ideas to shake up The Great White Way. Eddie Perfect (yes that’s …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 01:10PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Fans of both dance and ice skating – especially those who value figure skating as art, not just sport – should take note of the special program being prepared by Nathan Birch and Tim…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Just about the time you’re thinking there’s nothing new in the land of the lively arts, along comes something unexpected and wholly different. Celebrating its 70th touring season kick-of…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:15PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
With apologies to T.S. Elliot, Ballet Nacional de Cuba ends the Kennedy Center Ballet 2017-2018 season not with a whimper but a bang. A big bang! An explosive Don Quixote opened last night a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMThursday, April 12, 2018
We were promised surprises – guest artists and other treats – at the Kennedy Center’s 2018-2019 Theater Season announcement Tuesday in the Center’s cozy Terrace Theater. And, as …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44PMSunday, April 8, 2018
There’s a certain fresh, uninhibited and politically inspired way of dancing that only Europeans manage to pull off. It came into being in the 1960s and continues to crop up now and then, …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 09:44PMThe opening night performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by the Vagabond Players in America’s oldest continuously operating theater in historic Fells Point turned out to be a f…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Long Day’s Journey Into Night chills to the bone. The wind was howling as the cold air clipper passed through downtown Baltimore last Friday evening. Inside Everyman Theatre, an even more…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMMonday, January 8, 2018
On a cold winter’s night, nothing heats up faster than a fiery debate. And when it comes to political grandiloquence – as timely today as 100 years ago – the Vagabond Players opening n…
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