Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
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 […]
Jose Rivera’s SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY at Spooky Action Theater
Washington’s highly regarded Spooky Action Theater, long a leader in innovative and creative programming, features two debuts to close its 2022-23 season: one is the first production selected and helmed by the company’s new artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova; the other is the area premiere of a powerfully resonant play by one of the country’s leading […]
InfInIte Bach
Cellist Maya Beiser will release her latest recording, InfInIte Bach on May 26th. Ms. Beiser took the time to chat with me about her love of J.S. Bach’s music and the special, innovative way she went about recording his Cello Suites.
The BSO’s Music Director Designate, Jonathon Heyward
Jonathon Heyward is one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene, and we are so fortunate to have him as the Music Director Designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. His tenure officially begins in September 2023, but he’s been in town to conduct the BSO in a couple of programs this month. […]
Boating Safety Week
To request a free vessel safety check, visit https://uscgaux.org/vsc Items checked include Life Jackets, Registration and numbering, Navigation lights, Ventilation, Fire extinguishers, Distress Signals (flares, horn, etc), battery cover and connections. For a Virtual Vessel Safety Check, visit http://sos.uscgaux.info/content.php?unit+v-dept&category+virtual-safety-check The National Safe Boating Council can be reached at https://www.safeboatingcouncil.org/ And to reach […]
Lesley Malin wearing many hats at Chesapeake Shakespeare
Founding Chesapeake Shakespeare Company member and Producing Executive Director, Lesley Malin, plays Gertrude in the current production of Hamlet, and she has devised a 2023-2024 season of RULE-BREAKERS, a celebration of mavericks. She came in to talk to me about all of it.
The art of leadership
Paul Jan Zdunek is a conductor turned CEO who has co-authored a book that pulls together the seemingly disparate strands of conducting, horsemanship, and leadership.
TOFANA takes the stage at Sisters Freehold in Baltimore
For someone as deliciously, enduringly notorious–even infamous–as Giulia Tofana, the legendary Renaissance poisoner, strangely little is actually known. For certain, at least. Plenty of speculation and mythology has accumulated over the centuries since her (probable) execution for helping her fellow Italian wives become happy, wealthy widows via the administration of a secret house-blend of undectable […]
