The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
BOSLEY’S BACK! Tomorrow night. Post-show. 9:30pm. 1st floor lobby. Bar’s open.Guys, they’re awesome. 1950s rock & roll, with an awesome entertainer at the helm.And the drinks are oh-so-cheap. What’s not to like?
Check out the music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjwGDVjlX8o and then come.
Cheers,Kellie
BOSLEY - SHARPSHOOTER OFFICIAL VIDEO (by BosleyVideo)
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Lyrics for what was, allegedly, Poe’s favorite song.
Newest release from Baltimore WHAM maestro reflects on the state of our union.
Cleftomaniacs! Lobby full of folks stop after Into the Woods to enjoy a little a capella showcase.
“Who’s that I see walkin’ in these woods?”
Sam the Sam sings “Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood”
Unlike some art forms that took generations to morph into the next big thing, opera was invented in one place, at one time by a specific group (or two) of people.
Find out who invented opera in a convenient five-song list.
Photo: Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon
Music and arts festival comes to city: Carroll County’s Common Ground plans concert series
Common Ground on the Hill is branching out from its roots in Westminster and launching a concert series in Baltimore.
![“God Rode on a Mighty Storm” - Zora Neale Hurston recording of Lily Mae Atkinson singing a ballad about the Hurricane of 1928, in the L.O.C. card catalog.
(via God rode on a mighty storm / Lily Mae Atkinson [sound recording]:Bibliographic Record Enlargement: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvz0qkidrH1qzwcz9o1_400.jpg)
“God Rode on a Mighty Storm” - Zora Neale Hurston recording of Lily Mae Atkinson singing a ballad about the Hurricane of 1928, in the L.O.C. card catalog.
Documentary with interviews about the history and aftermath of the 1928 hurricane immortalized in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections is a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida. Recorded by Robert Cook, Herbert Halpert, Zora Neale Hurston, Stetson Kennedy, Alton Morris, and others in conjunction with the Florida Federal Writers’ Project, the Florida Music Project, and the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects Administration, it features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine camps; children’s songs, dance music, and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as “life histories.”
A little crossover culture: from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht to … The Doors! Here’s the “Alabama Song” from Mahagonny. Now that is what you call a cover. (And for a different take again, here is David Bowie.)
