ENTERTAINMENT
By Chris Kaltenbach and The Baltimore Sun | June 3, 2013
Having a big-time Hollywood star, not to mention one of the most prominent figures in live theater today, stop by to see your play is a pretty big deal. Bummer when you're not even there to enjoy the visit, though. Kevin Spacey -- that's Kevin Spacey the two-time Oscar winner, artistic director of London's Old Vic and star of Netflix's shot-in-Baltimore series "House of Cards" -- paid a visit to Center Stage Saturday, to watch its current production of "Beneatha's Place. " Also in the audience was Joi Gresham, of the Lorraine Hansberry Properties Trust.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Jordan Bartel | May 28, 2013
Think you have what it takes to snag yourself a bachelor? Or become "The Bachelor"? A casting call announced today is looking for single women and men to participate in ABC's search for bachelorette cast members of "The Bachelor," as well as future Bachelors, to represent Baltimore in the next seasons of the reality shows. The ABC2 Bachelor Casting Call Party will be held from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. June 13 at Maryland Live! Casino at Arundel Mills, 7002 Arundel Mills Circle in Hanover.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun | May 21, 2013
In Harold Pinter's “The Caretaker,” men who seem to have empty centers where their hearts should be engage in a strange dance involving intimidation and entitlement. In David Mamet's “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which the playwright dedicated to Pinter, men with voids where their morals should be thrash about in a desperate game that also involves intimidation and entitlement. These are two very different works, to be sure, but they share some gritty elements, pose similarly tough questions about human nature, and leave us with similarly elusive answers.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | May 20, 2013
Albert Hall, a professional opera singer and choirmaster who began his singing career during his student days at City College, died May 13 from colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Towson resident was 89. The son of a plumber and a homemaker, Albert Hall was born in Baltimore and raised on Rose Street. It was while he was attending City College in the late 1930s that he came to the attention of Blanche F. Bowlsbey, the legendary music teacher whom her students fondly called "Mrs.
BUSINESS
By Eileen Ambrose, The Baltimore Sun | May 20, 2013
The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore and the Maryland Department of Business of Economic Development announced Monday that they created a new program to help companies that have moved beyond the start-up phase to continue to grow. Advance Maryland is designed to assist these companies with developing markets, fine-tuning their business models and boosting growth with the help of a research specialist. Similar models have been adopted in other states, the groups said. "Maryland has a plethora of organizations and resources devoted to the start-up community, but we are limited when it comes to resources for second-stage companies," said Jen Gunner, the alliance's chief operating officer and co-program manager of Advance Maryland, in a statement.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun | May 17, 2013
The multifaceted issue of race continues to cling to this country. Every sign of progress in relations seems to come with an opposite move, so that it often seems as if little has ever really, fundamentally changed since the age of Jim Crow, or even Reconstruction. There is much in this black-and-white vortex for playwrights to mine. I'm not sure if anyone will ever demonstrate that more movingly than Lorraine Hansberry did in 1957 with her incisive drama “A Raisin in the Sun,” but it sure is interesting to see what happens when others try. Two writers have taken “Raisin” as a starting point.