BROS renovate theater for forthcoming plays
The first time you look at the Showtime Theater, the word that comes to mind is most certainly not “epic.”
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The first time you look at the Showtime Theater, the word that comes to mind is most certainly not “epic.”
Last week, a new touring production of Les Misérables graced the stage at the Hippodrome Theatre.
This weekend was truly a weekend for the absurd at Hopkins. While the opening nights of Witness Theater’s JHUconfessions were sold out and turning spectators away, the three performances of the JHU Barnstormers’s production of Eugène Ionesco’s first play, The Bald Soprano, solicited nonstop laughter from their more modest crowds.
Currently showing at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is a special exhibition that attempts to address the increasing amount of abstraction — both in concept and technique — in the field of sculpture.
On the fourth floor of one of Baltimore’s free art museums, the Walters, is Great Ilustrations: Drawings and Books from the Walters’ Collection, a temporary exhibition that has the potential to interest anyone who has ever loved a book, at least in part, due to its pictures.
At midnight last Saturday, a group of Hopkins students performed a live version of the famous cult classic, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, at the Arellano Theater in Levering.
Last Friday, the Merrick Barn Theater curtain rose on Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a new full-length play by award-winning student playwright, Eric Kalman Levitz.
Mira Nair's new film "Amelia," starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank as the titular and famed aviator, opened merely a week after Discovery News reported that the remains of Amelia Earhart have most likely been found on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific called Nikumaroro.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most well-known poets and fiction authors in the world - his name is synonymous with almost anything haunting and macabre.
Until Nov. 8, the Walters Art Museum will be showing an exhibit that will seem surprising after the trek to the third floor. A visit to the museum, located near the Peabody Conservatory, begins with one of two entrances.
Let's face it: For college students, money can be an issue. That is why it is sometimes hard to take full advantage of all that Baltimore city life has to offer. College costs enough without attempting to experience the city and, thus, emptying your wallet. Luckily for Baltimoreans everywhere, October is known as Free Fall Baltimore, "a month-long, free, city-wide arts extravaganza."
On Saturday, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra performed under the baton of Hajime Teri Murai in Peabody's Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall.
At a modern art exhibit, the first thing that typically comes to mind is an image of abstract images - art that looks like the artist threw the paint at the canvas, some chopped-up photographs rearranged in a mess or sculptures that look as though a child made them out of Play-Doh.
After Throat Culture, Hopkins' only sketch comedy group, finished their series of comedy sketches on Saturday night, the stage of the Arellano Theater had been coated with flour, pretzels, marshmallows and nearly solidified with water.
To kick off Spring Fair, S.L.A.M. showcased its hip-hop and step dancing for a crowd of excited fans at Shriver on Friday night. S.L.A.M. (or Stop Look At Me!) is the only hip-hop dance and step team on campus. For about one hour, this large group of talented students danced to popular songs with synchronized choreography and had fun doing it.
Two full-time Hopkins students have found a way to balance the music they love with their other academic passions. Pianist Mengyu Lan and cellist Philip Wolf were recently named the winners of the Hopkins Concerto Competition.
Last Friday, a performance at Shriver involving vibrating, swords, colorful costumes and ancient dance styles choreographed to all types of music excited a huge crowd of people. Egyptian Sun, the belly dancing club on campus, put on an incredibly entertaining show featuring the exotic art form.
On Saturday night, the Peabody Chamber Opera and the Peabody Opera Workshop performed several scenes from famous operas in unique and unexpected ways in "Opera Potpourri."
From the descent down the twisting marble staircase to the ceiling buttressed by marble pillars, statues and columns, it is easy to see that this is a conservatory that takes presentation seriously.
In the Front Room of the Baltimore Museum of Art, one can peruse the collection of Dieter Roth and Rachel Harrison's works while listening to the background music of disembodied lips moaning which carries from an adjoining room.