Baltimore Theatre Project
Season At A Glance
Theatre Project’s 40th Anniversary Season
2011
Affectations ~ Dance Box Theatre
Sept 16 & 17
Commissioned by the Kennedy Center as part of the 2010 Local Dance Commissioning Project, Affectations is a multi-media dance theater performance created and performed by Co-Artistic Directors Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp with Dance Artist Ilana Faye Silverstein and music by James Harkins.
The High Zero Festival ~ The Red Room Collective
Sept 22 - 25
THE annual international improvisational avant-garde music event presented by The Red Room Collective that reaches all over town and calls Theatre Project home for one very special week.
Parallel Lives (The Kathy and Mo Show) ~ Iron Crow Theatre Company
By Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney
Sept 29 - Oct 15
A cast of hilarious characters tackle issues of feminism, gay rights and religion in outrageous and provocative ways. This new company has already won accolades for its work.
The Rocky Horror Show ~ Factory Edge Theatre Works
By Richard O’Brien
Oct 20 - Nov 6
From Factory Edge Theatre Works, Richard O'Brien's musical cult classic comes vividly to life with an array of characters from Dr Frank-N-Furter, the not-so-sweet transvestite from Transylvania, to Brad and Janet, and a host of others.
I Want To Be A Gay Icon ~ Iron Crow Theatre Company
Written & Performed by Sarah Lynn Taylor
Nov 10 - 12
The premiere of Sarah Lynn Taylor's new play takes us on a personal journey of the gay rights movement with stories and songs. Using the gay icons through the ages as signposts, Taylor herself travels the road to icon, realizing that she needs more than a torch song and sequins to join the ranks of Judy, Liza and Bette.
This project is co-produced with the Johns Hopkins University MLA program.
B'more Dance: An Autumn Mixer
Nov 16
The mixer will bring together professional dance companies from Baltimore in order to showcase the professional artists in an inviting, social atmosphere. The event is free and open to the public. The mixer concept will allow audience members to mingle with the artists prior to the show and then provide feedback at the conclusion of each company’s performance.
B’more Dance: An Autumn Mixer will feature performances from Deep Vision Dance Company, Dance & Bmore, The Collective, VTDance, Full Circle Dance Company, withart.dance.projects, and Effervescent Collective.
Sound in Motion IV: Available ~ Baltimore Composers Forum & Lynne Price
An evening of new works in music and dance
Nov 18
A presentation of original and collaborative works, Sound in Motion IV: Available is an exciting, ongoing interaction between the Baltimore Composers Forum and local dancers and choreographers. This year's dramatic synthesis of dance and music will feature composers Garth Baxter, Ariyo Shahry, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, George Spicka and Ljiljana Jovanovic, and choreography by Lynne Price with dancers from the Effervescent Collective. The projects range from solo and ensemble pieces to works incorporating spoken word, electronic sound and jazz elements.
America's History of Belly Dancers of Color ~ Lotus Niraja
Video Shoot & Gala Show
Nov 19 & 20
An exquisite production featuring some of America's most talented Dance Artists.; shining a spotlight onto a showcase of Belly Dancers of Colors & Cultures, with one common dance expression … Samra Ya Raks - Brilliance!
Video Shoot and Gala Show for Lotus Niraja's upcoming Documentary: America's History of Belly Dancers of Color.
Unveiled ~ Rohina Malik
Dec 2 - 4
From Chicago, Rohina Malik’s Unveiled. Racism. Hate crimes. Love. Islam. Culture. Language. Life. Five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve tea and uncover what lies beneath the veil in this compelling one-woman show.
Brooklyn: The Musical ~ Teatro101
A Concert Musical
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson
Dec 7 - 11
David Gregory and Teatro101, producer of recent hits The Wild, Party, Side Show, Violet, and The Little Dog Laughed, presents the Regional Premiere of Brooklyn: The Musical – a sidewalk fairytale about a young girl’s quest for truth and love. With a mix of brash pop and some incredible soul, these soulful street-corner singers and storytellers will mesmerize & enchant you every step of the way.
2012
Gumbo ~ Generous Company
January 6 - 21
Three long weekends of theatre and music to warm your insides and chase away the wintertime blues featuring:
Last Chance: the story of a broken heartland
A series of plays by David M. White about life in the Ozarks.
3 Original Works by:
Annex Theatre, Generous Company, Un Saddest Factory Theatre
3 New Plays from WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory by:
George Brant, Megan Gogerty, K. Frithjof Peterson
And for One Night Only! ~ Megan Gogerty will perform …
Feet First in the Water With a Baby in My Teeth
With a Quick wit and a sharp-eyed take on politics, pop culture, and parenting. Chickens are beheaded! Pies to the face! Various public humiliations endured!
The Collective presents SHORTS
January 27 & 28
The Collective, Baltimore’s hub for dancers and choreographers, will present a concert of works designed to make the most impact in the shortest amount of time possible. SHORTS is a collection of over fifteen dances, ranging in length from two to five minutes, used to abstract everyday objects and situations into movement.
Open Marley Night
January 29
The Collective will host its annual Open Marley Night showcasing local dance companies and independent artists from the Baltimore region. As a venue for experimentation and further development, presenting artists will perform a work or work-in-progress with feedback from the audience encouraged and facilitated.
SUNRIZE: The Musical
February 4
Sunrize Highway, the creation of Iron Crow Company member Joseph Ritsch, is a loving satire of the great divas of contemporary musical theatre. Sunrize: The Musical features unique renditions from Broadway and beyond, interspersed with Ms. Highway's whimsical reflections, sage advice, cautionary tales and insightful showbiz stories. Join Sunrize as she brings her iconic performance to Baltimore for a benefit performance for Iron Crow Theatre.
Postcard From Morocco
February 9 - 12
The Peabody Chamber Opera presents Dominick Argento's brilliant operatic fantasy. The setting is perhaps a railroad station, perhaps the palm court of a grand hotel. Seven travelers are waiting, each with a piece of luggage that they keep jealously guarded from the others. Until Mr. Owen, the only traveler to be given a name, is foolish enough to allow his suitcase to fall open, showing that it is quite empty. The others leave for destinations unknown, but Mr. Owen undergoes an operatic apotheosis.
Giulio Cesare
February 16 - 19
Baroque specialist Timothy Nelson returns to Peabody and Theatre Project with a new production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt); the epic and eternal story of power, honor, justice, and vengeance. It is a profound exploration of the fine line separating justice and revenge, defense and terror, martyrdom and annihilation. Timothy Nelson brings his unique contemporary take on the baroque by setting the opera in the context of the modern struggle between East and West playing out today in the Middle East. Music director is Adam Pearl, with the Baltimore Baroque Band.
1:18 (One Hour Eighteen)
February 22 - 26
1:18 (One Hour Eighteen) is a documentary-style play by Russian playwright Elena Gremina. The play chronicles the true account of the harrowing, very public, and highly controversial death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. He was accused of tax fraud and imprisoned without trial, dying in prison 11 months later under suspicious circumstances.
Nana Projects Shadow Puppet Workshop
March 3
Inspired by the world of the circus in Alonzo’s Lullaby, during Nana Projects Shadow Puppet Workshop participants of all ages create shadow puppets from start to finish. Based on traditional shadow puppet techniques from around the world Nana Projects lead the participants in making puppets with moving parts and exploring the shadows they create on the screen.
Shadows ~ Vincent E. Thomas/VTDance
March 3 & 4
Award-winning dancer and choreographer Vincent E. Thomas/VTDance presents his most stunning work to date, Shadows, exploring essences of masculinity/manhood through shadows of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Also on the program is the dance theater work, Homo Will Not Inherit. This work is a fusion of dance and theatre, exploring the intersection of words and movement, and the expression of poetic images through the multiple media of word, voice and body.
Alonzo's Lullaby ~ Nana Projects
March 9 - 11
Gorgeous hand manipulated cut outs tell a tale of madness, passion and intrigue. Inspired by the Hagenback- Wallace Circus train wreck of 1918, this work is performed by three puppeteers (aka lanterneers) who project 2-dimensional images made of plastic and acrylic gels onto a screen with three overhead projectors. Relying on inventive tricks including scrolls of plastic, masking illusions, and faders allow the puppeteers to manipulate the pieces of plastic with a fluidity that is often mistaken for animation. Custom tables hold the overhead projectors and the puppets to allow various animated tricks. With graceful, hand manipulated cutouts and a bold graphic sensibility; this is a unique form of puppetry that in spirit and technique blends the manipulation of objects with the tricks of Victorian Magic Lantern slide shows and brings a modern twist to pre-cinema.
Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living ~ Miwa Matreyek
March 16 - 18
Both Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living are live performances with projected animation. As the artist walks behind the screen, her shadow becomes an integral part of the animated world – she crosses from domestic/home spaces of kitchens and dining room tables to oceanscapes and cityscapes in a fantastical journey.
Matreyek is an internationally recognized animator, designer, and multi-media artist based in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation.
American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact's 8 ~ Iron Crow Theatre Company
March 19
Iron Crow Theatre Company, Baltimore’s LGBT/Queer theatre, is proud to partner with Broadway Impact and Baltimore Theatre Project to present Dustin Lance Black’s new play: 8. This provocative new work by the openly gay, Oscar-winning author of Milk, tells the story of the California legal battle to have Proposition 8 struck down as unconstitutional. Taken directly from transcripts of the trial, you won’t believe the twists and turns that really took place in the courtroom.
Broadway Impact is presenting readings of 8 across the country to raise awareness of, support for, and funds for local legislative battles for marriage equality. All proceeds will go to the America Federation for Equal Rights.
excerpts: withhart.dance.projects ~ withhart.dance.projects
March 22
A workshop performance showing excerpts of mixed repertory from withhart.dance.projects, a Baltimore project-based dance company founded in 2010 by Lauren Withhart.
Highlight will be a preview of Rite with audience/artist Q&A. Rite is the company's newest project that explores femininity, protest, and the sacrifice of territory. This work will premiere in its full-length April 13-14, 2012 at Joe's Movement Emporium, Mt. Rainier.
John F. Kennedy Center’s Dance Showcase
March 25
The John F. Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project Showcase featuring 2011 Awardees Kimmie Dobbs Chan and Enoch Chan (Deviated Theatre), Sarah Levitt and Benjamin Wegman (Dance Exchange), and Erica Rebollar (Rebollar Dance Theatre).
Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company and Deep Vision Dance Company
March 29 - 31
Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company and Deep Vision Dance Company present a diverse evening of dance reflecting the rich culture of the Baltimore community.
The Soldier Dreams ~ Iron Crow Theatre Company
April 7 - 21
Iron Crow Theatre Company present The Soldier Dreams by Daniel MacIvor
Darkly comic and deeply moving - the comatose David dreams of his secret life, while his sisters and his lover Richard find their family dynamics turned upside down, by one of Canada’s most acclaimed contemporary playwrights.
ClancyWorks Dance Company and The Collective
April 28 -29
ClancyWorks Dance Company presents an evening of original choreography, highlighting the 10 year history of ClancyWorks’ collaborating with Baltimore organizations to use dance as a catalyst for social change, featuring a performance by The Collective, a Baltimore-based dance company, and students from residencies at George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts.
The Unborn: A Kaddish ~ Center for International Theatre Development
May 3 - 6
The Center for International Theatre Development presents the American premiere of András Visky's The Unborn: A Kaddish. Based on the short novel, Kaddish for a Child Not Born, by Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész, The Unborn is an exploration of ritual, loss, and unrelenting inner conflict in which the beleaguered central character mourns the absence of the child he never fathered during his loveless marriage; his mantra being a refusal to bring a child into a world where horrors like the Holocaust can occur.
State of The Re:Union ~ Al Letson
May 17 - 20
Theatre Project favorite Al Letson (Essential Personnel, Griot, Summer in Sanctuary, Julius X) returns to our stage with a live telecast of his NPR show State of The Re:Union, which is being developed for television. A travelogue exploring the hidden corners of cities across America, this episode will feature Baltimore in a series of taped segments and live performance.
KAWA to KAWA (river and skin) ~ Naoko Maeshiba/Kibism
May 24 - 27
Following a highly provocative production of Paraffin (City Paper’s Best Dance Performance in Baltimore), Naoko Maeshiba premieres her first solo piece. This humorous dance theatre draws from her recent research on ‘space, body, and language’ in Tokyo and Czech Republic.
Revisiting a dark musty room with ancestors, drowning in the waves of neon and crowd, and getting lost in a Kafka-esq maze, Maeshiba embraces the sense of ‘displacement’ in a signature, highly physical and hypnotic style. Blending Eastern and Western sensibilities, KAWA to KAWA invites you into a strangely beautiful dreamscape.
A Fierce Longing by John Schneider
June 1 - 10
Local director John C. Wilson directs this work about the life of Yukio Mishima, the influential and controversial Japanese writer. Milwaukee’s Theatre X first staged the play at Theatre Project in 1978.
Saturated ~ DNA Theatre
June 14 - 24
Original aerial work from Kel Millionie, former Theatre Project resident lighting designer, and members of the Dreams + Nightmares Aerial Theater.
Thunder Thigh Revue
June 29 - July 1
Joyce J. Scott and Kay Lawal-Muhammad reprise their award-winning show about being women of substance with fresh insights and new material.
Currently Playing
- 1:18 (One Hour Eighteen)
- The Center for International Theatre Develoment
- Wed February 22 - Sun February 26
- In January 2009, Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian tax lawyer was arrested and imprisoned without trial on charges of tax fraud - Eleven months later, he was dead.
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Upcoming Shows
- Nana Projects Shadow Puppet Workshop
- NANA PROJECTS
- Sat March 3
- Step right up to Nana Projects Circus themed Shadow Puppet workshop! Use simple paper cutouts and overhead projectors to cast shadows onto a screen that spring to life with depth and movement! Inspired by the world of the circus in Alonzo's Lullaby;make your own tigers, trapeze artists and lion tamers.
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- Shadows
- VTDance
- Sat March 3 - Sun March 4
- Award-winning dancer and choreographer Vincent E Thomas/VTDance presents his most stunning work to date; Shadows, exploring essences of masculinity/manhood through shadows of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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- Alonzo's Lullaby
- NANA PROJECTS
- Fri March 9 - Sun March 11
- Gorgeous hand manipulated cut outs tell a tale of madness, passion and intrigue.
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- Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living
- Fri March 16 - Sun March 18
- Both Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living are live performances with projected animation.
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Theatre Project -through the presentation of a diverse array of original and experimental theatre, music, and dance -- connects the artists and audiences of Baltimore with a global community of performers.