Steve Charing OUTspoken

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and survived the Black Friday insanity. As we reflect on our families, friends, ourselves and t...

Sometimes nostalgia can be a powerful escape because with troubled times like these, no one could be blamed for harking back to a simpler...

Many musicals provide a plot simply to connect the songs. In The Sound of Music the plot is as integral as the performances to the en...

So much has been made of Rick Perry’s flub during the Republican presidential debate on November 9 that most pundits have written off his ca...

There are various ways to write a dissertation for a Masters in Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University. But Sarah Lynn Taylor chose to pe...

Last November 20, Baltimore was among the many cities that participated in the 12 th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance (T...

It’s a pity that La Cage aux Folles is playing in Baltimore for only a week. The touring production of the multiple Tony® Award-winning m...

The recent autumn snow was a stark reminder that the 2012 General Assembly that begins in January is not far off. With it comes the hope of...

It may have been game 4 of the World Series between the Orioles and Mets at Shea Stadium, but on Wednesday, October 15, 1969 in New York Cit...

Baltimore’s Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre kicked off its 50 th season with a well-staged mounting of the Robert Anderson classic Tea a...

My Tweet to Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word on MSNBC, October 6. Question posed to Herman Cain who responded "...it was a matte...

As President Barack Obama left the podium on October 1 to a standing ovation at the 15 th annual Human Rights Campaign dinner where he was ...