A Raisin in the Sun

written by Lorraine Hansberry
directed by Rain Pryor
Sept 9 - Oct 13, 2024

THE STORY: Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena.

When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school.

The tension and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Hansberry's portrait of one family’s struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.

Death Trap

written by Ira Levin
directed by Stephen Foreman
Nov 11 - Dec 8, 2024

THE STORY:  Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds.

A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash.

Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it?

Deathtrap provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness, and offers hilariously sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment

Working for Crumbs

written by Kate Danley
directed by Alanna Kiewe
Jan 10-Feb 2, 2025

THE STORY: Grace and Amy, two outrageous admins, are living for the crumbs of their soul-sucking jobs. But when calamity strikes and their boss chokes on an oatmeal raisin cookie, it sets off a domino-effect of destruction that brings down the corporate house.

Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and thirty-year veteran of stage and screen with a B.S. in theatre from Towson University. She was one of four students to be named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts.

Clybourne Park

written by Bruce Norris
directed by Jen Sizer
Mar 7 - Mar 30, 2025

THE STORY:  Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart.

Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family.

Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.

Recipient of the Tony Award® for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Baby with the Bathwater

written by Christopher Durang
directed by Michael Blum
Apr 25 - May 18, 2025

THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn’t speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy—which leads to all manner of future emotional and personality problems when it turns out that Daisy is actually a boy.

Thereafter, in a series of brilliantly theatrical and wildly hilarious scenes, the saga of Daisy’s struggle to establish his identity continues, despite his parents’ growing obliviousness.

At the outset there is a zany nanny who gives him a lethal toy to play with; then the small problem of Daisy’s penchant, as a toddler, for throwing himself in front of buses; then his bizarre problems in school; and, finally, the sessions with his analyst which enable him, at last, to accept his maleness and stop wearing dresses.

In the end the play comes full circles as the former Daisy and his young bride fondly regard their own baby-forgiving of the past but determined not to repeat its calamitous mistakes.

Clyde's

written by Lynn Nottage
directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell
June 13 - July 6, 2025

THE STORY:  In Clyde's a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption.

Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.

At Clyde’s, sandwiches aren’t just convenient meals served at lunch and dinner; they tell stories, hold truths and nourish dreams…the drama blossoms into a poignant story about worker solidarity and the meaning of second chances, loaded with laugh-out-loud funny jokes. - The Hollywood Reporter.

…[a] flavor-bomb of a comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up…a subversion of familiar genres, including drawing room comedy and workplace drama, and the value judgments conventionally inherent to them. By nature of her composition, Nottage also questions which sorts of rooms and people have previously been considered worthy of sustained attention. - Variety.

Baltimore Playwrights Festival

written by - to be determined
directed by - to be announced
Aug 1 - Aug 17, 2025

A new work by a local Baltimore playwright will be selected from this season of exciting BPF readings!

Check out the readings

(more info at www.baltplayfest.org)

and then see the FIRST production of a new play!

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