QUITTING TIME
By Jack L.B. Gohn
Theatrical Mining Company
February 21 – March 2
Retirement holds no allure for Robert, a senior science professor at the center of Jack L.B. Gohn’s new play QUITTING TIME. Though Robert is aging in mind and body, and it’s been awhile since he’s been able to win a research grant, his career still gives Robert’s life meaning. But Kim, his younger department chair, believes Robert is “past it,” and she wants him gone to make room for younger researchers who can bring more of the prestige and the grants that are the department’s lifeblood. However, when she tries to force Robert out by reducing his pay and confiscating his equipment, he refuses to go quietly. In the ensuing battle, there are no prisoners taken.
Where does a society torn between the needs of the old and those of the young strike a balance? What are the prospects and the choices for those nearing the endings of their careers and their lives? This literate and witty but also incisive and at times devastating play lets no one off easily as it raises these questions, which come with no easy answers.
In QUITTING TIME, Jack Gohn, who provoked and excited Baltimore audiences in 2023 with WHAT WAS DONE, his dramatic exploration of Maryland’s troubled racial history, returns, once again under the aegis of veteran director Barry Feinstein.
Showtimes:
February 21 @ 8pm
February 22 @ 8pm
February 23 @ 4pm (Talk back with the artists following the performance)
February 28 @ 8pm
March 1 @ 8pm
March 2 @ 4pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $20
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From Industrial-Strength Theater
THE BALTIMORE BAZAAR OF THE BIZARRE
Written and Directed by Tony Tsendeas and Mark Redfield
Original Music by Jennifer Rouse
March 6 – 15
Industrial-Strength Theatre presents five weird and strange tales of Mobtown in THE BALTIMORE BAZAAR OF THE BIZARRE! Five radio plays performed and recorded LIVE, with live sound effects and original music!
Travel back to the golden age of live radio drama, and back in time through Baltimore’s strange and fantastic history!
Our plays, performed live for you by a company of diverse actors taking multiple roles, are Frank, The Body Snatcher by Tony Tsendeas, Edgar Alien Poe by Mark Redfield, Now That’s Funny by Tsendeas, One Night At the Grindhouse by Redfield, and Every Theatre Has A Ghost by Redfield.
The performances include one intermission.
Showtimes:
March 6 @ 8pm
March 7 @ 8pm
March 8 @ 8pm
March 13 @ 8pm
March 14 @ 8pm
March 15 @ 8pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Student/Senior/Artist/Military: $20
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From IN Series
POPPEA
by Claudio Monteverdi
March 21 – 23
The final part of IN Series’ Monteverdi trilogy, POPPEA brings the composer’s most famous and audacious final opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal to life inspired by the performance tradition of South India, and specifically Bharatanatyam dance. This landmark production is of one of opera’s undisputed masterpieces. Monteverdi’s baroque score is blended with new dance music by composers Ami Dang and Rajna Swaminathan.
IN Series’ production will be a collaboration with Indian-Canadian choreographer Hari Krishnan, whose work brilliantly combines the aesthetics of this traditional dance form with contemporary movement and questions of gender norms. The work will be directed and conducted by IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson and feature a cast of local favorites and international artists known for their interpretations of opera of the Baroque. The INnovātiō Orchestra, IN Series’ own period baroque band, will blend music of South India in an evening of whirling passion, music, poetry, and dance.
Showtimes:
March 21 @ 7:30pm
March 22 @ 7:30pm
March 23 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Students: $20
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PRAISE! PROJECT
Presented by Wender Collective and VTDance
March 29 & 30
Praise! Project is an original dance theater performance that opens the door into a con- versation around sacred bodies, queerness, and coming in-to ourselves. As the performers criss- cross memories and fantasies of divine en- counters, the piece asks how we reconcile past experiences to make new meaning for the present.
At times during the performance, the audience will be welcomed into call and response movement, song, and facilitated dialogue. In this way Praise! is co-created, immersive, and always evolving.
Praise! Project is presented by Wender Collective and VTDance, co-created and performed by Vincent E. Thomas and Gabriel Thom Pasculli with Desiré Graham and Malia’Kekia Nicolini. This project was created with the support of NPN Creation Fund, co-commissioned by Bethany Arts Community, Sandglass Theater, and Baltimore Theatre Project.
Showtimes:
March 29 @ 7pm
March 30 @ 2pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Students/Artists/Seniors: $20
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About the Performers
Vincent E Thomas is a Black gay man, a professional dancer, and a Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). Vincent’s dance company, VTDance, recently celebrated its 22nd Anniversary in Baltimore. Vincent grew up in Edgefield, SC where he sang joyfully (and dutifully) in the choir at his Southern Baptist Church, and yet he felt as though he had to spend much of his adult life washing the church from his soul.
Gabriel Thom Pasculli is a queer, white-bodied, second-generation Italian-Irish-American, who has been working in Chicago and New England as an ensemble theater-maker and is now a Lecturer of Directing and Performance at Union College (NY). Gabriel Thom grew up in the Catholic Church in New Jersey and has spent his adult life seeking the mystical experience he failed to find in the religion of his childhood.
Both artists are returning to a time they thought they had left behind. They are returning to the tender questions they developed as young people, torn between their inner desires and the confounding morality of the communities in which they were raised. With great curiosity, intimacy, risk and availability, Praise! is asking how we reconcile those past experiences and conflicted parts of our younger selves to make new meaning in the present.
Praise! Project events are co- created, curated, and co-facilitated by Desiré Graham, a New Haven- based artist working in original theatre and musical performance, and Malia’Kekia Nicolini, a Massachusetts-based dancer, actress, choreographer, artistic director, facilitator, and arts educator.
Project History
The lead artists have been developing this work over a series of workshops between 2019 and 2025. The first week-long workshop happened at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH in 2019, and four workshops took place at Art Omi in upstate NY between 2021 and 2025. A work-in-progress excerpt was shared in April of 2023 at Baltimore Theatre Project as part of VTDance’s 20th Anniversary Concert. In 2024 The project had a two week residency at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining NY and will premiere at Bethany Arts in March 2025.
HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE
By Sarah Ruhl
Iron Crow Theatre
April 11 – 27
Overflowing with subversive enchantment, Sarah Ruhl’s HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE takes you on a wild ride through the uncharted territories of love and desire, polyamory, throuples, and matrimony. This provocative play combines absurd domestic comedy with erotic magical realism, unraveling the blurred lines between strangers, friends, and lovers.
At a dinner party deep in the wilds of New Jersey, George, and her husband talk with a fellow married couple and find themselves captivated by stories of a younger polyamorous woman who hunts her own meat. Intrigued, they invite the mysterious woman and her two live-in boyfriends to a New Year’s Eve party—setting off a chain of events, including an unexpected orgy, that will forever change their lives.
Sarah Ruhl’s exploration of human connection, desire, and love challenges and delights in equal measure. Don’t miss this unforgettable voyage into the complexities of modern relationships and the magic of Ruhl’s unique storytelling.
Showtimes:
April 11 @ 8pm
April 12 @ 8pm
April 13 @ 4pm
April 18 @ 8pm
April 19 @ 8pm
April 20 @ 4pm
April 25 @ 8pm
April 26 @ 2pm
April 26 @ 8pm
April 27 @ 4pm
Tickets:
$25.00 – $65.00
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From Industrial-Strength Theater
DON JUAN IN HELL
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Tony Tsendeas
Original Music by Jennifer Rouse
May 15 – 17
Industrial-Strength Theater presents Shaw’s brilliant DON JUAN IN HELL, directed by Tony Tsendeas with music by Jennifer Rouse.
Mark Redfield (as The Devil) leads a quartet of actors through Shaw’s witty and philosophical minefield of satire and comedy.
DON JUAN IN HELL is taken from the third act of Shaw’s MAN AND SUPERMAN, and is a surreal dream episode unto itself, traditionally performed as an operatic stand-alone spoken theatre piece for four actors, satirizing the relationship between the sexes.
Showtimes:
May 15 @ 8pm
May 16 @ 8pm
May 17 @ 8pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Student/Senior/Artist/Military: $20
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From Industrial-Strength Theater
KING UBU
Written by Tony Tsendeas
Inspired by the works of Alfred Jarry
Directed by Mark Redfield
Original Music and Lyrics by Jennifer Rouse and Tony Tsendeas
May 17
ONE SHOW ONLY!
A special public play reading of a work in development from Industrial-Strength Theater!
Industrial-Strength Theater presents KING UBU by Tony Tsendeas. Please join us for this public reading of a wholly new play, inspired by the works of Alfred Jarry, and his UBU ROI, which invigorated the absurdist playwrights of the 20th century.
Tsendeas take is wilder, woolier, and weirder, as the horrific and repulsive Ubu rises to power -from nasty narcissistic TV show personality to flatulent, flamed-out fallen fascist!
Music and lyrics by Jennifer Rouse and Tony Tsendeas.
Directed by Mark Redfield.
And please stay and join us for a Q&A after the reading! We’d love your feedback as we look forward to mounting a full production at Theatre Project in the future!
Showtimes:
May 17 @ 2pm
Tickets:
Suggested Donation: $10
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From IN Series
ETHIOPIA
living newspaper by Arthur Arent
new text by Sybil R. Williams
music by Janelle Gill
May 30 – June 1
The long-awaited world premiere of the first “living newspaper,” ETHIOPIA concludes IN Series’ 2024-25 season. The work was banned by the Roosevelt administration and never performed, until now. Written in 1937, this production fuses theater and music to tell the hot-off-the-press story of Italy’s colonialist attack on Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia while the world stayed silent.
This reconstruction, with vivid new texts, is the brainchild of DC writer Sybil R. Williams (STORMY WEATHER, ALCESTE) who has teamed up with DC composer and pianist Janelle Gill (DESDEMONA, CHUCK & EVA) to imagine a new musical realization inspired by the music of Emahoy Tsege, an Ethiopian luminary artist known as “the honky tonk nun.” Williams and Gill expand the vision of the original work to explore how America’s Black and Brown communities responded to Europe’s aggression, and particularly the story of Mayme Richardson, a leading black soprano that became an activist for the Ethiopian causes. Jazz, classical, and African music blend and soar in this history-making musical moment.
Showtimes:
May 30 @ 7:30pm
May 31 @ 7:30pm
June 1 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Students: $20
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: PRIDE 2025
By Richard O’Brien
Iron Crow Theatre
June 13 – 29
Iron Crow Theatre’s annual fundraiser and Baltimore’s favorite LIVE tradition returns in a new raucous celebratory pride event!
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
Every ticket holder gets an audience participation script and prop bag complete with cascading toilet paper, water guns, and an array of other gadgets and goodies! This deliberately kitschy rock ‘n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is Baltimore’s favorite yearly tradition, and this year it’s queerer than ever!
Showtimes:
June 13 @ 8pm
June 14 @ 8pm
June 15 @ 4pm
June 20 @ 8pm
June 21 @ 8pm
June 22@ 4pm
June 27 @ 8pm
June 28 @ 2pm
June 28 @ 8pm
June 29 @ 4pm
Tickets:
$30.00 – $75.00
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