Cauldrons, Collages, Spellbooks, and the Stage: A Conversation with Alexander D’Agostino
Where Archive Meets Queer Magic
For me, going to the archives is a mental health and wellness practice. Seeing queer memories feels really healing.
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Like a Live Wire: Subscape 2025
A Photo Essay of Baltimore's Free Underground Music Festival
This October 10-12th, Subscape showcased experimental and genre-defying music from punk and noise to electronic and indie rock with a strong emphasis on local and regional talent.
25 Years In, AVAM’s Kinetic Sculpture Race is Classic Baltimore
How a Silly Idea Evolved into the City's Beloved Competition
"In 2025, we were proud to return for the second straight year as presenting sponsor of the Kinetic Sculpture Race Powered by PNC," says PNC Regional President for Greater Maryland Laura Gamble. "This beloved event champions community, imagination, and invention, which is the spirit of Baltimore."
The Piano Lesson: August Wilson Resounds at Everyman Theatre
Latest Entry in Citywide Celebration of the Playwright's American Century Cycle Onstage Through September 28
Presented with humor, pathos, bombast and melancholia, Wilson's characters lay bare their desires and disappointments, hopes and expectations.
Symphony for the City: Jonathon Heyward’s BSO
Elevating Connection at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
As the first Black music director of a major orchestra and also the youngest, breaking barriers and leaning into a bold vision is at the core of Heyward's personal playbook.
Moonlight Center of Art: New Pigtown Gallery Carves Its Own Niche
Art to Music, Music to Art
The center opened in November, 2024. Nine months on, it’s become a beloved meeting place for sublocal, musically inclined artists.
Viva Brasil: A Cultural Celebration in Baltimore
An Interview with Organizer Pablo de Oliveira on How the Carnival Party at Creative Alliance is Evolving and Performers You Won't Want to Miss This Year
The Viva Brasil party has become an icon of Brazilian culture in Baltimore, drawing audiences from throughout the DMV area. This year it returns to the Creative Alliance Theater, Saturday July 19th at 7:30pm.
Here’s Our Story: A Conversation with Earl Arnett on His Life with Ethel Ennis and New Memoir
"A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore & Me" Released This Spring
Arnett recounts the life he and Ennis created together with candid detail in A Jazz Romance: Ethel Ennis, Baltimore & Me. The book also offers an intimate account of the midcentury music scene, Baltimore, and how closely the politics of the time overlapped with show business.
Let’s do the Time Warp Again (and Again, and Again…)
Iron Crow Theatre Proves We'll Never Get Tired of The Rocky Horror Show
Oh, fantasy free me! The campy queer sci-fi horror musical gets a timely Pride month revival.
Essential Tease at Creative Alliance
The Burlesque Class of 2025 Invites You to Their Graduation
“We’re teaching from the inside out by really getting down deep into the issues that are keeping [students] from who they really want to be and translating that to the stage but also translating it to daily life."
Party: a New Music Video & Interview with PEARL
Baltimore's Most Fun Punks Drop a New Video, Wisdom, and a Show in Philly Next Month
"Politics have always been intertwined with music. I don't feel there's more of it now; it depends on what's happening in the world at any given moment." -Tommy Rouse
Voyages: Manifesting Joy in Conservationism
Baltimore-based Visual and Performing Artists Explore Conservation at the National Aquarium
"The words ‘childlike wonder’ come up with all of them. That's what the artists want to invoke in attendees—inviting adults back to play, realizing the power in being in that space."
Horror, Drag, and High Camp at Everyman Theatre
Charles Ludlam's Queertastic Penny Dreadful, 'The Mystery of Irma Vep'
Ludlam wrote the play in the 1980s, and the current production at Everyman Theatre proves the genre has resonated for not only decades but centuries—still just as luridly, in this case also hilariously, entertaining.
Brinae Ali’s Tracing Steps
Bringing the Life and Legacy of Baby Laurence to Stage
It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
Dance My Pain Away: Future Ghost at the Voxel
"the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table" revisits the AIDS Crisis with Candor and Courage
Future Ghost, a Queer performance collective that is the brainchild of Lyam B. Gabel and Joseph Amodei, created the production out of a desire to bring light to not just the disease, but to the people who experienced and lived through this uniquely disastrous phenomenon.
The Sweet Spot: A Movement Beyond the Stage
How Ainsley Burrows & Laurielle Noel's All-Black Burlesque Production Draws on Legacy as it Meets the Moment
“We lean into the erotic nature of it. We lean into the artistic nature. We lean into the transcendent nature of it,” Burrows says. “If you’re feeling good about yourself then it is more difficult for you to do something that will oppress someone or will oppress yourself.”
Crafting Cadences of Connection: An Interview with Brandon Woody
The Upendo Trumpeter Discusses the Band's New Album, Influences, and Love as a Volcano
In Upendo's latest album "For the Love of it All" the band brings experience and heritage to new compositions.
Two Queens Stand Before You: Mary Stuart at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Onstage Through May 18
What happens when two women, each born into royal circumstances with claims to the throne of England, grow up to become bitter rivals? We have the makings of an imperial tale of political and religious intrigue that is as riveting now as it must have been almost 500 years ago.