N. Howard News

After a two-year hiatus due to the global pandemic, the Charm City Fringe Festival will return from September 29th to October 8th, 2023. This year's festival promises to be a reunion for the books.

 After selling out venues around the U.S., Award Winning Comedian Ike Avelli brings his hit show, 50 Shades of Gay: 8th Anniversary to the 2023 Charm City Fringe Festival.

ArtsCentric is a color-conscious organization committed to reexamining traditional roles in the arts, advancing original stories of minority cultures, and fostering educational advancement to strengthen the community through the power of theatre.

ArtsCentric is a color-conscious organization committed to reexamining traditional roles in the arts, advancing original stories of minority cultures, and fostering educational advancement to strengthen the community through the power of theatre.

ArtsCentric is a color-conscious organization committed to reexamining traditional roles in the arts, advancing  original stories of minority cultures, and fostering educational advancement to strengthen the community through the power of theatre.

This February, ArtsCentric, the dynamic theater company that brought Baltimore the nation’s first African American cast production of Chicago, the Musical, does it again by redefining the traditional roles in Jason Robert Brown’s musical, The Last Five Years.

Each week five new short plays, will be performed as a collection together by 10 actors. The audience decide who plays who and their props and costumes.

The BROS Shadow Showdown is a medley of three short original stories, pitched and developed by BROS volunteers, all heavily featuring shadow puppets used in creative and exciting ways!

A season highlight, ArtsCentric will present a powerful play by African American Female playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.

Mary Goggin shares a true story of her Irish Catholic upbringing, laced with wicked humor and much pathos, drug addiction, prostitution, and the multitude of characters she encountered along her path to ultimately finding joy. 

It's 1982, and a movin', groovin' house party deep in the sticks of Omaha, NE becomes the backdrop of a universal story of a young girl's untimely coming of age into womanhood and adulthood amidst her momma's wild and racous weekend house parties. 

Renowned soul-blues singer Billy Price, whose new album, Dog Eat Dog, is released on Gulf Coast Records August 2, embarks on a year-long tour in support of the record, with a CD Release Party at Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard St., Thursday, August 1. Showtime: 8pm. Tickets: $15. Info: (410) 662-0069 or visithttp://www.theottobar.com. Price, who resides in Baltimore, performs with his Charm City Rhythm Band.

New York based comedian, actor, writer, and improviser, Joe Minchik, is coming home to perform in his new autobiographical solo show, un-a-parent at the 7th annual Charm City Fringe Festival. A Maryland native who hails from Carroll County, Minchik is returning to perform in Maryland for the first time since moving to New York City ten years ago.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland's Artistic Director Dianna Cuatto is pleased to announce programming for the 2018-2019 season at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. This year marks the company's 40th anniversary, an occasion that will be celebrated with world premieres, the return of a holiday classic, and a spring Grande Opening Celebration for friends, family, and VIP patrons. Cuatto, who is now in her 16th season, looks forward to continuing to produce high-caliber ballet performances that engage the mind and spirit and express Maryland's unique voice through movement.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland (BTM) is returning to Baltimore this November and next spring with six performances as part of its 40th Anniversary Season programming. The Annapolis-based company made its debut in Charm City 15 years ago, and since then, has performed more than two dozen productions at Artscape, the Baltimore Theater Project, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Modell Lyric.

Take a Swedish Band (that isn't technically a band) and a handful of brilliant Baltimore based improvisers, and what do you get? The Siegfried Olsson Band presents Too Hip for the Room, a sketch comedy show that combines the talents of YouTube sketch group, the Siegfried Olsson Band with members of the Baltimore Improv Group, and the Baltimore/DC area producer of Mortified. 

New York based comedian, actor, writer, and improviser, Joe Minchik, is coming home to perform in his new autobiographical solo show, un-a-parent at the 7th annual Charm City Fringe Festival. A Maryland native who hails from Carroll County, Minchik is returning to perform in Maryland for the first time since moving to New York City ten years ago.

After selling out venues around the U.S., Award Winning Comedian Ike Avelli brings his hit show, 50 Shades of Gay to the 2018 Charm City Fringe Festival on Friday, November 2nd @ 10pm, Saturday, November 3rd @ 9pm and Sunday, November 4th @ 7:30pm. The event will take place at Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore MD 21201. Ticket info can be found at http://charmcityfringe.com/tickets/

In a short 2016 profile in American Theatre, Russian emigre director Yury Ornov expounded on the freedoms of theater: 'You can hate people; you can do a hate show about Putin, for example, or about your ex-wife.' It seems that Lola B. Pierson's Putin On Ice (That Isn't the Real Title of This Show) is the hate show about Putin that Urnov, a close associate of Pierson through Baltimore's Acme Corporation, had in mind. (That said, Genevieve de Mahy, the Artistic Director of Single Carrot Theatre, on whose premises that show, a joint production with the Acme Corporation, is now playing, claims in a program note that the idea came from Single Carrot.) In the same profile just mentioned, Ornov emphasized how important and liberating it was to laugh at the things that distress us. Putin On Ice is nothing if not funny, though, as my companion on press night pointed out, there was a risk, throughout most of the show, that the laughs would ultimately obscure the seriousness and the threat of its subject.

Two of Baltimore's premiere experimental theatre groups will pool their talents to create an outrageous theatrical happening: Putin on Ice (that isn't the real title of this show) by Lola B. Pierson. Pierson, who penned Best of Baltimore winner Follow No Strangers to the Fun Places for Acme, will bring the her penchant for metaphor and abstraction to Single Carrot's stage for this joint artistic venture.