Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Music at St. David’s commemorates Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Indigenous Peoples’ Day falls on the second Monday in October each year, and this year we mark it on October 9th. Douglas Buchanan, Director of Music Ministries at St. David’s in Roland Park, spoke to me about the Recital & Evensong that Music at St. David’s is offering for the Commemoration of Indigenous Peoples […]
Making Her Mark at the BMA
Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800 is a ticketed exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, featuring more than 200 objects across fine art, craft, and design, capturing women’s integral contributions to the evolution and production of art across 400 years. It was my pleasure to speak to […]
E. Faye Butler tells it like it is for the Everyman Theatre gala
Saturday, September 30th, Everyman Theatre hosts “A Night for Baltimore:” a gala event to benefit their education and community programs as well as to celebrate the many artists and creative spirits who help keep live theater alive and well here in our city. Included with admission will be food and drink, eclectic theatrical experiences throughout […]
Classic Theatre of Maryland kicks of 2023-24 season with a 1920s cabaret
Before their fully produced mainstage season launches in November with a signature Holiday Rep, featuring a double bill of the musical White Christmas and a homegrown adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Anne Arundel’s only resident regional producing theater brings audiences a swell and swanky musical appetizer. Their monthly cabaret series (now extended to Monday AND Tuesday […]
Douglas Buchanan celebrates 10 years with St. David’s Music
The 2023 – 2024 season of the Music Series at St. David’s Roland Park begins on September 17th, with a bonus concert on Sunday 10th. Douglas Buchanan has special plans for his 10th season.
Joanie Schultz refines and revisits A DOLL’S HOUSE for Everyman
For anyone who’s been required to sit through a production of Henrik Ibsen’s now-iconic domestic drama, A Doll’s House, or maybe been assigned to read it for a class, and found it either cumbersomely lengthy or maybe a little unbalanced in its sympathies, well your time has come. Until September 28th, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is […]
Last chance for CODE SWITCH at Theatre Project
The Sisters Freehold world premiere production of Shakill Jamal’s hilarious, provocative new play The Code Switch enters its final weekend at Baltimore Theater Project–with performances Thursday July 27th through Sunday July 30th. More information and tickets are here or at the Theatre Project website. Jamal’s play, which he both wrote and directed, uses multiple theatrical devices […]
Switching it up with CODE SWITCH at Sisters Freehold
To switch, or not to switch? This is the question posed by playwright (and director) Shakill Jamal in his brand new play, The Code Switch, debuting with Baltimore’s intrepid Sisters Freehold theater company from July 15-30. Specifically, the play probes the question of codeswitching, whether out of necessity in navigating the fraught dynamics of a […]
WIPAC 2023
The Washington International Piano competition will be taking place in the last week of July, and I had the opportunity to talk to Michael Davidson, who will be one of the judges for the competition recently. http://wipac.org
Going Round with Kevin McAlister at Everyman Theatre
The much-loved, oft-performed musical revue And the World Goes Round, featuring treasured selections from the songbook of iconic musical theater duo Kander and Ebb (creators of such enduring treasures as Cabaret and Chicago), gets a fresh update and brand new take in a production now running at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre. This latest version of a show […]