Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hereford High students hard at work on play

2013-02-08 13:40:00

"The Phantom of the Opera" just celebrated its 25th anniversary of New York performances, making it the longest running show on Broadway. An estimated 130 million people have seen the show in theaters around the world. Hereford High School theater...

'Superstar' treatment at Opera AACC reflects homage to Lloyd Webber's work

2013-01-29 21:31:00

Opera AACC is celebrating its 11th anniversary this month with a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar," running Feb. 1-9 at Anne Arundel Community College's Robert Kauffman Theater at the Pascal Center for Performing Arts....

Anne Arundel County Digest

2013-01-25 00:00:00

Child seat inspection Anne Arundel Community College's Department of Public Safety will offer a car seat inspection from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, on the parking lot and garages located near the Central Services Building on the Arnold campus,...

Live with it

2012-08-29 07:44:00

A quarter-century ago, when I began work on the copy desk of The Baltimore Sun, I was still a hard-edged prescriptivist (though not quite as great an insufferable usage snob as when I was a graduate student in English). I knew people who thought that...

Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre marks 40th season

2012-07-27 04:32:00

The Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre is in the midst of its 40th anniversary season, a significant milestone for a company that has tackled a sizable breadth of repertoire, from "Lysistrata" to "Hairspray," and maintained wallet-friendly ticket prices...

Cockpit in Court's 'Sunset Boulevard' ready for its close-up

2012-07-27 07:25:00

Andrew Lloyd Webber's1993 Broadway musical adaptation of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" sets itself the impossible task of trying to emulate that great 1950 movie. Although this musical doesn't come close, its distillation of that inside-Hollywood...

Weekend filled with choices for music lovers

2012-03-14 15:19:00

The classical music calendar is covered with notes in Howard County this weekend. That's because there are several local concerts scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18. Much as music lovers might like to be in two places at the same time,...

Attacks on British interests kill 27 in Istanbul

2003-11-21 00:00:00

LONDON - With rescue workers picking through the rubble of two British targets bombed in Turkey and more than 100,000 war protesters marching through London's streets, President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday that they would not be...

Big shows coming to new venue

2004-02-19 00:00:00

Long runs of two long-awaited shows - Baltimore's first engagement of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the Mid-Atlantic premiere of Disney's The Lion King - will highlight a musical-laden 2004-2005 subscription season at the Hippodrome...

Theater review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' from Breakthrough Theatre

2013-03-30 14:45:00

Each year in the run-up to Easter, I pull an old CD off the shelf and listen to "Jesus Christ Superstar." This year, the Breakthrough Theatre allowed me to expand on my tradition by opening its production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock musical on Good...

'Cats' takes the stage in DeLand

2013-04-03 12:27:00

Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats" — an ambitious choice for a community theater — will be the next performance from the Sands Theater Company in DeLand. It opens Friday, April 5, at the Athens Theatre. Based on T.S. Eliot poetry, "Cats" became...

American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'

2013-03-28 06:00:00

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...

Finally, the Andrew Lloyd Webber camp is allowing the big material to appear in a revue: Songs from "Phantom of the Opera," "Cats," "Sunset Boulevard," and even "Love Never Dies," the much-maligned "Phantom" sequel yet to be seen on Broadway.

2013-02-15 00:00:00

Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his birthday today. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

2013-02-05 18:39:00

Cockpit in Court Theatre's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Boulevard," based on Billy Wilder's 1950 film noir classic, ends its run Sunday.

2012-07-25 00:00:00