Events

You won't find what you expect at the third annual Charm City Fringe Fest, and that's the idea.

"Richard II" runs through Nov. 9 at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

Civic leaders assembled Nov. 16, 1914, to found the Baltimore Museum of Art.

When audiences file into Everyman Theatre for performances of George Brant's gripping one-act, one-actor play "Grounded," they are greeted with the sight of a figure sitting motionless onstage, facing a wall covered with large TV monitors.

Now that the bicentennial observances of the Battle of Baltimore and penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner" are over, it's worth getting back to the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. There is certainly plenty left to learn about that wrenching chapter of our history and its...