Theatre Morgan presents Ntozake Shange's "spell #7"
spell #7
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap
spell #7
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap
DIRTY PICTURES
Rapid Lemon Productions
October 12 – 21
Rapid Lemon Productions concludes its 2018 season with another world premiere by another local playwright!
DIRTY PICTURES is a bawdy stage comedy about four lives transformed by the discovery of 21 shocking photographs.
D.W. Gregory is a local writer whose star is on the rise, fresh off her work appearing in this summer’s Contemporary American Theater Festival.
Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, Center for the Arts (CA 3042)
Join visual artist and musician, Alif Laila, for an audio-visual performance, introducing the South Asian aesthetic theory of rasa, one that evokes emotions through the visual, literary, and performing arts. Enjoy melodic ragas, while viewing projections of Ms. Laila’s watercolors. A question and answer session with the artist will follow the performance.
Tickets: $20 Regular Price, $15 AA&CC Members, $10 non-TU students, $5 TU students
A fully immersive and interactive experience! Each episode of The Institute of Visionary History is designed to be an intimate, stand-alone experience for an audience of up to five people. Differing in style and content, each will take you to a unique place and time.
Actualized by actor, improv comedian, and H.T. Darling puppeteer Kim Le, Episode Three may veer between moments of hilarity and deep reflection.
"Altar Ego" Runs October 18th, 20th, and 21st (with a FREE test showing Wednesday the 17th).
McDaniel College’s Department of Music presents this concert featuring many McDaniel music department faculty members and musical groups. Organized by Shelley Ensor, director of McDaniel College’s Gospel Choir, the concert is focused on delivering a positive message. She hopes that the performance will “show love and unity during these divisive times. We want to show the students and community that we support each other and love each other.”
Scott F. Mason celebrates over ten years of impersonating Dame Edna and has performed throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Broadway, Florida, Las Vegas, DC, and Sedona, AZ.
In 2010 and 2012 he won “Best Comedian” at the Las Vegas Reel Awards which is akin to the Oscars for the Tribute Artist Industry.
Maryland Art Place & Philanthropik present GUISE II!
Mark your calendars for a night of art, music, mischief and masquerade! MAP & Philanthropik are producing a decadently themed costume party as an extension of MAP's Fall Benefit exhibition. Don your mystery mask and join us for a surreal celebration - during the most ghoulish time of the year!
Tickets include light tastings, live entertainment, and admission to MAP's fall exhibition, "Repurposed with Purpose" curated by Doreen Bolger, former Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
EVENT NAME: She Stoops to Conquer (by Oliver Goldsmith)
EVENT CONTACT NAME: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
ADDRESS: 7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore MD 21202
EVENT CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected]
EVENT CONTACT PHONE: 410-244-8570
One of the great jazz trumpeters of our time, Sean Jones is known for his technical brillliance, his bold but tasteful improvisation, and for the emotional depth of his music. Just named chair of Peabody’s Jazz Studies, he will be joined in this Tiffany Series concert by faculty members Alex Brown on piano, Kris Funn on bass, and Quincy Phillips on drums.
Join members of the Columbia Orchestra as they perform chamber works featuring the four sections of the orchestra: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion! This concert will include Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, one of Beethoven’s “Rasumovsky” quartets, Ligeti’s charming Bagatelles, percussion music by Maryland’s Pulitzer winner Christopher Rouse, and more! This is a concert sure to delight everyone from young listeners to classical music aficionados. Free!
Marvel at the virtuosic and lyrical gifts of the woodwind family in this year’s annual Patagonia Winds concert. Highlights include beloved quintets by Nielsen and D’Rivera, and audience favorites by Bernstein and Gershwin.
You’re Invited to a listening party for Voices of Carmen - an urban adaptation of the opera by George Bizet. Meet the Carmen Youth Council and the creative team. Your feedback is vital to our process and we look forward to hearing from you. Space is limited, please RSVP
Doors Open: 4:30PM
The riveting Pacifica Quartet debuts with SHCS favorite, pianist-composer Marc-André Hamelin, who “ranks among the small handful of performers in every generation whose abilities defy the imagination” (The Toronto Star). Hamelin and the Quartet, hailed by The Telegraph as “nothing short of phenomenal,” perform works by Beethoven and Hamelin, closing with Schumann’s captivating piano quintet.
Experience ellen cherry’s rained out Artscape set of new material (with guest musicians, Max Bent (beatboxing), Richard Crafton (banjo), Thillman Benham (cello) and Andrew Grimm (guitar). Eze Jackson and June Star each play an opening set of their original music! Umbrellas not required!
Join us as members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform chamber works in a beautiful candlelit setting. Concert and parking are FREE, with no tickets or reservations required. Please visit our website for complete program information and to learn more about our series: www.CommunityConcertsAtSecond.org
Jon Seligman, a percussionist and composer who teaches at McDaniel College, performs with his jazz trio.
Nathan Hook, saxophone
Alex Fornier, bass
Jonathan Baez, percussion
Performing in our first floor gallery.
A 1-2 punch from Baltimore to the Big Easy with Greg Schatz (from NOLA) and The Seth Kibel Quintet, featuring Flo Anito (CD release show)
ABOUT GREG
Greg Schatz writes and plays music that gets stuck in your head. Steeped in tradition yet completely original, his songs give words to life’s hard-to-describe moments.
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October has been Youth Justice Awareness Month (YJAM) since 2008. In 2016, it became Youth Justice ACTION Month. During YJAM, people across the country organize events that raise awareness, strengthen coalitions, build campaigns, and encourage action to keep children out of the adult criminal justice system. The theme for this year’s YJAM is #VoteYouthJustice – because the elections this November will be critical in determining whether the opposition gets stronger, or whether forces for better justice for youth get the upper hand.
Playwright Lauren Yee has always felt like an outsider, especially compared to her father, Larry, the unofficial center of their Chinese American community. When Larry suddenly goes missing, Lauren has to chase through time, space, and the fourth wall itself to find her father, save his story, and chronicle a vanishing piece of American culture. Explore the vivid legacy of one changing Chinatown through the vibrant imagination of a new generation in award-winning playwright Lauren Yee’s smart and cheeky family comedy.