Mary Jane “Mae” West’s career as a show business entertainer spanned more than seven decades. Her early career performing in vaudeville and theater was based in New York, and a later career... Read more
Everyman’s 35th season opening production and entry into Baltimore’s August Wilson Celebration is “The Piano Lesson.” It is part of his American Century Cycle, refle... Read more
![Concert Review: 'Verdi's 'Aida' Conducted by [Johnathon] Heyward' with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra](https://mdtheatreguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BSO-Aida-Angel-Blue_Credit-Dario-Acosta_1-190x122.jpg)
The final concert of the 2024-2025 season brought audiences a complete concert version of Verdi’s “Aida” performed in Italian with English supertitles and featuring an all-star c... Read more
“Chicago the Musical,” originally subtitled “A Musical Vaudeville,” with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, is set in the 1920s Jazz Age and based on a... Read more
“John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only,” a play written by Baltimore native Matthew Weiner, a graduate of The Park School, marks its world premiere at BCS. Mr. Weiner is an author, actor, televi... Read more
Maestra Hicks, a specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, introduced this final BSO pops concert of the season. She explained that the scores selected for representation in th... Read more
It’s always a pleasure to welcome back Jack Everly, the BSO’s former principal pops conductor, for one of his well-received programs of the Great American Songbook. For this performance he b... Read more
“The Music Man,” with music, lyrics, and book by Meredith Willson, is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. Set in the fictional town of River City, Iowa, the story follows the tra... Read more
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is a three-act play by Edward Albee, first staged on Broadway in 1962. It won Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Actress (Uta Hagen), and Best Actor (Arthur Hi... Read more
Maestro Heyward introduced the program as a musical reflection on life. The first selection, Antonín Dvořák’s “Carnival Overture” (1891), is the second in a trilogy of overtures titled “Natu... Read more
