Podcasts about baltimore rock opera society

It's time again for a visit with Midday's theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck,who joins Tom each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. This week she reviews the Baltimore Rock Opera Society's production of “The Gold Night," which runs until October 21.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Joining Tom now is the Baltimore-based hip hop virtuoso, recording artist and activist Anthony Parker, better known as Wordsmith, the founder of the youth advocacy organization, Rise with a Purpose… Also with us in studio are Tajae Holloway and Dayana Punnett, two of the performers in The Purple Tape, a new musical written and produced by Wordsmith in collaboration with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, that celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip hop. Set in Baltimore in the 90s, The Purple Tape's storyline incorporates classic period rap hits from Wu-Tang, The Notorious B.I.G., 2PAC and LL Cool J. The students of New Song Academy (where Wordsmith teaches) rap their way through a summer day as they embark on a hunt for a rare copy of the famous Raekwon album. Only 10,000 cassettes of that album were printed, guaranteeing it would be intensely coveted by devoted Raekwon/Wu-Tang fans. The search for "The Purple Tape" ends up being a lesson in hip hop history, as the students come to realize the culture of hip hop is a way of living. The Purple Tape is an exuberant, educational and family-friendly musical experience. (photo courtesy Wordsmith)Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

This week I had the chance to sit down with Mast Year bassist Darin Tambascio for a conversation about his start playing music, moving to LA and forming his band National Sunday Law, Returning to Baltimore, performing with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, and the creation of his new band Mast Year during the pandemic lockdowns. Check out Mast Year's new album Knife available on Bandcamp Friday April, 7th, and their album release show at Ottobar April 8th @mastyearband @dakronia grimoirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/knife @jpg_audio jpgaudio.com

On this week's Confessional Podcast we discuss in order all 9 films in the Rocky and Creed film franchises! With Anna Platis of Baltimore Rock Opera Society, and Migs Rodriguez pf Movies with Migs. With Confessions from Atlanta, Baltimore, and more!     

Tyler and Aran from the BROS drop by to discuss the new show Glitterus (Dragon Rising) which debuts this Friday! (tickets here: https://sforce.co/3ikxS9y) Join our Discord it’s very fun! https://discord.gg/ntcQjmWJZW

Petula Caesar is a multi-talented all around artistic being. She is a writer, performer, creator, producer, recording artist and arts administrator. She got her start writing erotica when she was published in New York Times bestselling author Zane's erotica anthology “Caramel Flava” and has published two volumes of erotic ficton and an audiobook of erotic fiction. Petula has written for various publications like Baltimore's former alternative weekly City Paper, The Afro-American Newspapers, and Baltimore Magazine. Petula is also a storyteller and performance poet who has been featured at signature Baltimore events like Artscape, Stoop Storytelling, The Baltimore Book Festival, and Charm City Kitty Club. She has performed erotic poetry and suggestive storytelling with her band in tow for audiences up and down the East Coast and has performed with The Punany Poets from HBO's "Real Sex" series. After spending much time onstage in front of audiences of all kinds, Petula grew to love backstage just as much, and moved into theatrical production, event production and artist booking. She has curated, directed and produced events at most major venues in Baltimore, including The Creative Alliance, The Motor House, Arena Players, The Arch Social Club, The Reginald Lewis Museum and Metro Gallery and has worked with numerous Baltimore performers like The 5th L, Eze Jackson, Lea Gilmore, Jonathan Gilmore, Navasha Daya, and Joyce Scott. She created Caesar Productions LLC to present and elevate various aspects of African American culture, especially performance and literary arts through events ranging from live performance to workshops. Petula released her memoir entitled “She's Such A Bright Girl: An American Story” in June 2018, where she recounts an upbringing full of conflict and tension centered around colorism. The book won an Honorable Mention at the North Street Books Prize for creative non-fiction, and throughout 2018 and 2019 Petula could often be found appearing at branches of the Enoch Pratt Library and at other community events talking about her book and other themes related to race. Petula became director of Community Engagement for the Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS) in 2019. In her role of finding ways for BROS to become more reflective of Baltimore's demographic (majority African American), she assisted with creating programming with that audience in mind by using Black creatives both onstage and behind the scenes to execute that programming. This included serving as producer of a series of virtual concerts in 2020 called Rock Opera 101 (during the height of COVID no less). And while 2021 finds us still facing COVID, Petula continues to create, serving as Executive Producer and Co-Creative director of a theatrical presentation called “Funktopia - An Intergalactic Tribute To Funk and Hip Hop” that will feature music from Outkast, Kendrick Lamar, George Clinton, Funkadelic, and similarly funky artists.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It really makes a difference and it's always nice to read kind words.Follow us on Twitter and  InstagramBe sure to check out our other podcasts:Mastermind Team's Robcast - Mastermind Team's Robcast is an irreverent and hilarious podcast covering all things pop culture and weird news. Let's Watch It Again - Let's Watch It Again is a movie review podcast from MTR The Network.★ Support this podcast ★

The Black Lives Matter movement has emboldened Black communities to demand justice and equity in nearly every realm of American life. nearly every realm of American life. The Baltimore Rock Opera Society has taken that message to the online stage with its portrayal of the evolution of rock and roll ... told using a more accurate, more inclusive arc. We talk with Petula Caesar, producer of ‘Rock Opera 101: American Music’ … and Jonathan Gilmore, its creator, director and lead performer.

It's Thursday, and time for theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck's weekly review of a regional stage production. This week, she joins Tom to talk about the latest offering from Baltimore Rock Opera Society, a kid-friendly musical production called Welcome to Shakesville.Conceived by Sarah Gorman and directed for the BROS by Lucia A. Treasure, Welcome to Shakesville tells a story of a gifted young African American artist named Betty and her journey toward artistic self-awareness. As the BROS program puts it, it's a ----hip and trippy---- journey that's told, and sung, using the pop-culture imagery, puppetry, fantasy and multi-genre music that energized such iconic 60s and 70's TV shows and movies as H.R. Pufnstuf, The Muppet Show, and Yellow Submarine. The BROS production features lead performances by Jacquan Knox as Betty and Matthew Casella as Jimmy, with music from a 10-man band called The Far Outs.The Baltimore Rock Opera Society's production of Welcome to Shakesville continues at Zion Church of the City of Baltimore (Zion Lutheran), located at 400 Lexington Street, through Sunday, June 16. For showtimes, directions and ticketing information, click here.

We reported on our attendance at the Baltimore Rock Opera Society's production of "Incredibly Dead", we gave an honorable mention review to Helen Cadbury's "To Catch a Rabbit," and we highlighted another book club, Centuries and Sleuths in Forest Park, IL. We then discussed the books we are currently reading.

John Marra, a member of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society artistic council, tells a Stoop Story about the magic of community theater and the importance of believing in yourself, always. You can hear his story and others at stoopstorytelling.com.

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society, or BROS, is fueled by the passion and dedication of a small army of volunteers who swear by ‘big and loud’ when it comes to theater. The newest show, ‘Incredibly Dead,’ is a gore-infused B-horror romp filled with surprising twists and turns. We get a preview from co-director Sarah Doccolo and executive director Aran Keating. More info at the BROS site.

It's Thursday and time for our regular weekly visit with theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us today with her review of the new production of Eugene O'Neill's dark classic, Long Day's Journey Into Night, now on stage at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre.With director Donald Hicken​ helming a seasoned cast of resident company* and guest actors, the play recounts a summer day and night in 1912 in the Connecticut home of the Tyrone family. A stream of interactions quickly reveals the family members' deep emotional wounds and long-simmering conflicts. James Tyrone (played by Kurt Rhoads, in his Everyman debut), his morphine-addicted wife Mary (Deborah Hazlett*), and their two sons, Jamie (Tim Getman*) and Edmund (Danny Gavigan*), struggle to connect with each other through their tangled webs of drug addiction, alcoholism, anger and love. The production also features actress Katherine Ariyan as Cathleen, the Tyrone's housekeeper.Long Day's Journey Into Night continues at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre til Sunday, March 4. For ticket information click here.Judy also spotlights two distinctive productions making brief runs in the region. The first is a landmark collaboration between two seemingly unlikely bedfellows — the Baltimore Rock Opera Society and Arena Players. “Constellations” and “Crossroads” are two original short operas about African-Americans, including “Hidden Figures’” Katherine Johnson, running February 9-11 and 16-18. Here's a Youtube video about it from BROS. The other notable production is a rewritten version of the Benny Andersson, Bju246urn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice musical, “Chess,” the first installment of a new series of high-profile staged concerts at the Kennedy Center. Chess runs February 14- 18.

“Brides of Tortuga,” “Grundelhammer” and “Phantom of the Paradise” were three of the original productions staged by the Baltimore Rock Opera Society over the last eight years. But BROS actors, writers, designers, builders, musicians and artists now finds themselves in exile, without a headquarters and production house. The nonprofit opera company was among tenants of the old Bell Foundry building until Baltimore officials condemned the workspace in the Station North Arts District last month. Now BROS is trying to raise money to buy a permanent home for its raucous and imaginative productions. Today’s guest: Aran Keating, the company’s artistic director, talks about BROS’s quest for a new space. Here’s an amusing video that BROS used in 2015 to raise funds.Links:http://baltimorerockopera.org/https://www.crowdrise.com/brosforeverhomehttp://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/bal-hilarious-video-launches-fundraising-campaign-for-baltimore-rock-opera-society-20150224-story.html

Episode 33 with Sarah Gorman is Live now! We talked with Sarah about her work in Theatre, her podcast Instant Screaming and her band Queen Wolf. Enjoy!

In 1913 outdoorsman Joseph Knowles pledged to spend two months in the woods of northern Maine, naked and alone, fending for himself "without the slightest communication or aid from the outside world." In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow Knowles' adventures in the woods and the controversy that followed his return to civilization. We'll also consider the roots of nostalgia and puzzle over some busy brothers. Intro: In 1972, a French physicist discovered a natural uranium reactor operating underground in Gabon. In the 13th century the English royal menagerie included a polar bear. Sources for our feature on Joseph Knowles: Jim Motavalli, Naked in the Woods, 2007. Joseph Knowles, Alone in the Wilderness, 1913. Bill Donahue, "Naked Joe," Boston Magazine, April 2013. Richard O. Boyer, "The Nature Man," New Yorker, June 18, 1938. John Gould, "Tarzan of the Pines," Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1999. Roderick Nash, "The American Cult of the Primitive," American Quarterly 18:3 (Autumn 1966), 517-537. Robert Moor, "The 1913 'Nature Man' Whose Survivalist Stunts Were Not What They Seemed," Atlas Obscura, July 7, 2016. "Joe Knowles, Lived in Wilds Unarmed!", New York Times, Oct. 23, 1942. Joseph B. Frazier, "An Early Nature Buff: By Going Into the Woods Alone, Did Joe Knowles Remind America of Its Potential?", Orlando Sentinel, March 2, 2008. Joseph B. Frazier, "'Natural Man' Inspired, Despite Fraud Claims," Augusta Chronicle, March 16, 2008. "The 100th Anniversary of Joe Knowles' Famous Odyssey into the Wilds," Lewiston [Maine] Sun Journal, April 14, 2013. "Joe Knowles and the Legacy of Wilderness Adventures," Lewiston [Maine] Sun Journal, May 12, 2013. "Nature Man Badly Injured," Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1915. "The Nature Man," The Billboard, Nov. 6, 1915. Grace Kingley, "Joe Knowles, Nature Man, at Republic," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 23, 1914. Still dressed in his bearskin and cedar-bark shoes, Knowles was examined by Harvard physician Dudley Sargent on Oct. 9, 1913. "He surpassed every test he took before starting on the trip," Sargent declared. "His scientific experiment shows what a man can do when he is deprived of the luxuries which many people have come to regard as necessities." A portion of the crowd that met him in Boston. Listener mail: Fireworks disasters in Oban, Scotland, and San Diego. MURDERCASTLE, from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. John Tierney, "What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows," New York Times, July 8, 2013. University of Southampton, "What Nostalgia Is and What It Does" (accessed March 18, 2017). "Nostalgia," Google Books Ngram Viewer, March 18, 2017. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Rod Guyler. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Hola DigHeads! This week we bring you another live Digression Sessions recorded with a real audience as part of the Baltimore Fringe Festival! We have ourselves a plethora of guests on, including Bob Rose and Chuck Green of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, Lars Periwinkle and Joel Murphy of fellow-Thunder Grunt podcast, Hobo Radio, and we even get a surprise little chat with the producers of Fringe Fest centerpiece, Ebon Kojo! Follow your boys, Mike & Josh, on Twitter and Instagram.  Josh - @JoshKuderna on Twitter and @JoshKuderna on Instagram Mike - @MikeMoranWould on Twitter The Pod - @DigSeshPod on Twitter The Pod's Facebook page - Dig Sesh on Facebook For live stand up and improv dates, check out - DigressionSessions.com/Calendar

Welcome to the very first episode of therapist and creative counselor Lauren Aycock Anderson’s  the Working Artist! Our inaugural guest is dancer and Effervescent Collective owner Lily Kind. We showed a portion of this video from the collaborative 10X10 project before her interview, and this segment from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society‘s production of Lunastus. If you like what you hear, please join our next live interview, every third Saturday of the month at the Windup Space! Artwork by John DeCampos.

Follow us on Twitter! @BetterRobotJosh @MichaelMoran10 @DigSeshPod And check Rex out at Rex-Anderson.com Hola DigHeads! This week on Digression Sessions Podcast we the very talented Rex Anderson! Rex is a voice actor, regular actor, and a musician. He performs with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, Random Battles, and lends his voicing talents to the Meanwhile at the Skull Base podcast as well as a bunch of video games. This week we sit and talk to Rex about his many ongoing projects, as well as his journey to marriage (sorry ladies), and the surprisingly long and complex cannon that exists of the Air Bud mythos. Thanks for stopping by the studio Rex, we had an amazing time! Make sure to check out Meanwhile at the Skull Base, an excellent scripted podcast show created by Bryan Preston and featuring both Rex Anderson and our very own Josh Kuderna. If you haven't subscribed to Digression Sessions in iTunes or Stitcher, than why not go ahead and do that? Also please leave a comment on our Facebook page Digheads! Thanks for all the support, hope to see you at shows! We love you!    

-PODCASTCASTLE- Hola Digheads! This week Josh and Mike are joined by multi-talented comedians, Mark Miller and Kathy Carson! Mark and Kathy are both Baltimore based stand ups and improvisers. Mark has a dry wit, a penchant for one-liners and a delivery that relishes awkward silence. While Kathy has more of a story based approach to stand up, which mixes in a healthy bit of social commentary as well. Mark is also a member of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society or BROS. Their next feature-length original rock opera is “MURDERCASTLE.” Set in Chicago's 1893 World's Fair, MURDERCASTLE recounts the disturbing tale of America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes – the empire he created, and the brutal fate of his victims. MUDERCASTLE opens Friday, May 10, 2013 at The Autograph Playhouse in Baltimore. And you can see Kathy performing with her BIG troupe, Lekker, Friday April 19th at the Mobtown Theater at Meadow Mill in Baltimore. During this ep, Mark shares stories about his battles with bullies in middle school and high school, his contributions to BROS, his start in comedy, and the music he makes under the moniker, MARKITECT. Kathy talks about working with children for her past job at Lifetouch, growing up with goats, comedy, and her love of Gain detergent. Find all things Mark Miller at @MARKITECT_ROCK on Twitter and all things Kathy Carson @Kathy_Carson on Twitter. And if you get a chance please help us out by leaving us a quick comment on iTunes and maybe rating, if you're nasty. And tell a friend! Spread the good word! Thanks, Digheads!! Follow Us – @BetterRobotJosh @MichaelMoran10 @DigSeshPod