Colorful balloons to fly high over Howard
Ron Broderick, known as the Balloon Meister, is ready to take you up, up and away into the west Howard County sky before bringing you down to earth at the Turf Valley resort in Ellicott City.If you don’t want to take the 30 to 45 minute sky ride in one of the 21 balloons on display, you could rise 60 to 80 feet, then descend, in a tethered balloon.Among the flying fleet is... READ MORE
Chamber concerts in a homey atmosphere
Daniel Weiser wants to bring chamber music “alive” for Baltimore audiences.“This type of music isn’t meant to be performed in large venues,” the Peabody-trained pianist said. “It’s made for a more intimate setting.”With that in mind, Weiser, who is in his late 40s, founded AmiciMusic, meaning “music among friends,” about five years ... READ MORE
Alvin Ailey dancer returns to hometown
When Jacqueline Green appears in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Baltimore engagement at the Lyric on April 26 and 27, the young dancer will be coming home to be greeted by family and friends — and new audiences.Green, who is 26 and grew up near the Alameda in Baltimore, was a self-described tomboy — “running around outside throwing sticks” — when... READ MORE
Radiant performances in 110 in the Shade
If you’re a regular theatergoer and movie-watcher, you have probably seen 110 in the Shade long before its current incarnation at Ford’s Theatre, onstage now through May 14.In fact, you have likely seen more than one of its many versions. It began as a TV play in 1953, before writer N. Richard Nash took it to Broadway the following year.He gives us the story of Lizzie, ... READ MORE
Premiere of Pulitzer-finalist play at Olney
Marjorie Prime at the Olney Theater Center is a strange, gripping and ultimately touching play. Is is set in the future, and looks at how we remember the past to keep going in the present.The play gets underway as Marjorie, an 85-year-old woman nearing dementia, is having a perfectly reasonable conversation with her deceased husband, who is sitting across from her as he appeared at the age... READ MORE
Broadway performer gets people dancing
CJay Philip has enjoyed a long, successful career as a professional dancer in both modern and African dance companies, as a Broadway and touring performer in such shows as Dreamgirls, Big the Musical, Street Corner Symphony, Legally Blonde, and Hairspray, and as a popular dance fitness instructor at some of New York’s premiere health clubs.But when she moved to Baltimore in 2010 for... READ MORE
Stuff: one man’s show about his family
“At 65, I realize that I made some terrible choices, none of them for me.”From the diary of Edith Feffer, October 1988That excerpt from the long-secret journals of playwright John Feffer’s mother is at the heart of his idiosyncratic, but sometimes absorbing, play titledStuff.It returns to the area in a limited run this month at Studio 1469 in D.C.’s Columbia... READ MORE
Jewish federation to host Bach to Broadway
Jewish Federation of the Desert, headquartered in Rancho Mirage, will once again present an evening of Israeli musical entertainment and culture for the community when it presents “Bach to Broadway” on March 21 from 7 to 9 p.m.This two-part concert will be performed at the Indian Wells Theatre on the Palm Desert campus of Cal State San Bernardino, and will feature the artistry... READ MORE
Songs still carry the show in South Pacific
It wasn’t a completely enchanted evening. Nevertheless, the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific at Toby’s Dinner theater in Columbia did at times exuberantly, dramatically and tunefully evoke that mid-20th century period when America fought an all-out war and Broadway provided the country’s maximum musical expression.The lives and times of the Navy ... READ MORE
Artist revives longtime interest in beads
Thea Fine is a self-described “recovering health policy wonk who writes.” Now, though, after a long career in the federal government, Fine prefers to describe herself as a beading designer.The Ellicott City resident first learned how to bead as a child during summer vacations with her maternal grandmother, Rose — “a Renaissance woman who never met a craft she... READ MORE
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