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    Midshipman 4th Class Michael Lancaster, 19, from Signal Mountain, Tenn., places the midshipman cover atop the Herndon Monument. Naval Academy freshmen, or plebes, climb the granite obelisk in a tradition symbolizing the successful completion of the midshipmen's freshman year.
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    Stevie Walker-Webb, left, with former Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stephanie Ybarra.
    The Culture Report: A Baltimore Center Stage director’s career-altering call
    Stevie Walker-Webb, the director of Center Stage’s newest production, “Life is a Dream,” talks about his recent Tony Award nomination for “Ain’t No Mo’.’
    Vince Eisenson as Hamlet and Lesley Malin as Gertrude in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s "Hamlet."
    ‘Hamlet’ is not a new story, but Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s production is fresh
    Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s “Hamlet” is sleeker, shorter and more modern, but it's still the Bard’s broody tragedy.
    Cheryl Strayed wrote the book "Tiny Beautiful things"
    Cheryl Strayed on Center Stage’s ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ and the importance of good advice
    “Wild” author Strayed, whose “Dear Sugar” advice column inspired the play, discusses her work lending her life to stage and screen.
    Jada Pickett Smith, Moses Ingram, Isis King and Mo'Nique all hail from Baltimore.
    Something in the water? Black actresses with Maryland ties flourish in television and film
    Moses Ingram is part of a contingent of Black Maryland women dominating TV and film roles.
    Four women wearing ornate church hats are backlit in front of a dark background. Because of the lighting, their multi-colored hats are more visible than their faces.
    In ArtsCentric’s ‘Crowns,’ Black women and church hats take center stage
    Baltimore Center Stage and ArtsCentric, a color-conscious community theater organization, teamed up to produce ”Crowns,” a musical about the power of Black church, camaraderie and those ever-important hats.
    Lynne Streeter Childress is the owner of Building Better People Productions, which will stage its first in-person performance since the worst of the pandemic on Saturday in Annapolis.
    50 years after ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ entertaining education goes on in Annapolis
    Lynne Streeter Childress remembers the day her eighth grade history teacher was talking about the Constitution and the class spontaneously broke out in song from a 1975 episode of “Schoolhouse Rock.”
    Experimental theater Single Carrot to close after 15 years
    The staff and board of Single Carrot Theatre have decided to close the curtain after more than 60 performances of known and original works.
    Senator Ben Cardin, US Representative Kweisi Mfume, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Senator Larry Young present a check from the US Treasury for four million dollars to the Arena Players, the oldest continually performing and historically African-American community theatre in the United States, on January 19, 2023.
    ‘A dream come true’: Arena Players receives $4 million for building improvements
    The theater is still hoping to raise an additional $1.7 million for renovations.
    Illustration of Michael Lamason's face, with outdoor puppet theater in background.
    Untold Stories: Illustrated Interview with Michael Lamason of Black Cherry Puppet Theater
    Michael Lamason, executive director of Black Cherry Puppet Theater, talks about theater management and puppet slams in this illustrated interview.
    Performers on stage lifting up person while in front of them a woman sits cross-legged facing the audience.
    Baltimore talent on display during Hippodrome run of ‘Jagged Little Pill’
    Two Baltimore performers will take the stage at the Hippodrome this weekend for the theater’s run of “Jagged Little Pill,” a musical inspired by Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album of the same name.
    Angela Stein, practices her routine during rehearsal for  "A Christmas Carol." at Charm City Ballet in Cockeysville, Sunday, December 11, 2022.
    Baltimore County’s Charm City Ballet finds footing again with ‘A Christmas Carol’
    While most ballet companies opt for “The Nutcracker” around this time of year, the all-ages inclusive Charm City Ballet has made “A Christmas Carol” a winter tradition.
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