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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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."
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
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."
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.
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.
"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.
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.”
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.
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.
Music, Poetry, and a Love Letter to Baltimore: Annual Gathering of Activists and Artists is Growing
Judah Adashi hated the idea that Freddie Gray would be forgotten to most people, especially in Baltimore. Through music and art, he wanted to change that.
Jill Fannon's Photo Essay captures the magic of BSA Expressions
Baltimore School for the Arts Celebrates 45 Years with Expressions ‘25: Students, Performances, and Guests
BCS + BSA Spells "Triumph"
Ushering in a partnership with Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore Center Stage's production of Akeelah and the Bee features BSA freshmen and sophomore students in the majority of its roles. Onstage through April 13th.
The High Zero Foundation Honors the Late Musician and Educator with an Evening of Music and Remembrances on April 5th
As a teacher by day and a seasoned performer by night, Alcorn imparted her wisdom on and off stage.
