After five years of calling Remington home, Single Carrot Theatre is planning to leave its N. Howard Street space, and the next time you see the experimental troupe perform, it may be in someone’s house, an old church or unleased commercial space.
Single Carrot Theatre to leave Remington, focus on site-specific plays around the city
Billy Joel is indeed playing Oriole Park this July
The Piano Man is indeed coming to Baltimore.
Billy Joel is playing Oriole Park at Camden Yards on July 26, the first-ever concert at the history-making ballpark.
Is Billy Joel playing Oriole Park this year? It’s A Matter of Trust in a Milwaukee sleuth
The Orioles and Live Nation are due to make a major announcement tomorrow morning, and if an online sleuth in the Milwaukee area is correct, the big news is that Billy Joel is playing a concert at Oriole Park at Camden Yards this year.
Let me explain.
Event pick: BSO Musicians, joined by other symphony members, play a brassy benefit at the Basilica
With Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members’ contract with management set to expire in one week, and potential ensemble-shaping budget cuts still hanging over their heads, the Baltimore Symphony Musicians’ benefit concert for My Sister’s Place, happening tonight at the Basilica downtown, holds a little extra weight.
The 11 biggest happenings of 2018 in Baltimore’s literary scene
It’s been a busy year for Baltimore’s writers and literary institutions. Here are some of the most interesting developments and gossipy tidbits.
Weekend Events Calendar: Kwanzaa celebration, The Feelies, WWE and more
It’s the weekend between the holidays, and the celebrations keep rolling. Kwanzaa arrives in Charm City with a special celebration. Elsewhere, laugh off the Christmas spirit or dance your way into 2019.
Eze Jackson combats holiday season stress with Dirty Christmas
Versatile Baltimore MC and Real News Network reporter Eze Jackson stands in the local nonprofit news organization’s recording studio looking over some lyrics he’s penned in a spiral notebook.
As studio manager Dwayne Gladden and audio engineer Stephen Frank go over a few things in the control booth, Jackson nods his head along as he mentally reads through his lines, jotting down a few notes in the process. I’ve dropped by to chat with Jackson about his fourth annual Dirty Christmas party taking place at the Metro Gallery Dec. 29, but first he needs to hop into the booth to record a short experiment, an attempt to bring Jackson’s considerable hip-hop gifts to the kinds of news stories the Real News covers: economic inequality, climate change, political corruption.
Gilbert Sandler, the Bard of Jewish Baltimore, dies at 95
Gilbert Sandler — author, history columnist, folklorist, radio personality, advertising exec, journalist, city life advocate, raconteur, bon vivant and the great chronicler of Jewish Baltimore — passed away Dec. 19 after a lengthy illness.
He was 95 and would have turned 96 in early February.
For a second year, BSO musicians will greet commuters, travelers at Penn Station tomorrow
Michael Lisicky recalls the satisfaction he and the other musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra felt after their inaugural pop-up performance at Penn Station last year, when they played classics and carols in the lobby on the Friday before Christmas. Many of the travelers and commuters there hadn’t expected it, but they soon formed a line to watch and listen, many taking out their phones to share it online.
“It was just to soothe the travelers,” the oboist said. “We just kind of wanted to do something fun and nice. It was so well received.”
Stillpointe’s ‘Heathers: The Musical’ stages the darkly comic ’80s flick as a rock concert
Stillpointe Theatre co-founder, actor and director Danielle Robinette is herding her cast and orchestra together in a church basement for the sitzprobe of “Heathers: The Musical,” Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s 2014 adaptation of the darkly comic 1989 cult film. The cast members of Stillpointe’s production, which opens Dec. 20 at the Ottobar for the first of three nights, mill about checking their phones, flipping through copies of the book and doing some vocal warm-ups.
