Le Cabaret de Carmen

September 25 - October 5

American Opera Theatre

Together in one evening are these two dark mysteries from PTRS's dark universe. Hystery of Heat is a performance lecture that follows the adventures of a group of researchers as they try to explain the connections between global warming, rock and roll and clinical hysteria. Spoleum, written and directed by Daniel Allen Nelson in collaboration with Annie Kunjappy, is a play about Venice, memory and architecture. In a race to save the relics of Venice, an obsessed architect becomes submerged in the darkest mysteries of the empire's foundation.

Cyclopedia

October 16 - 19

Margolis Brown Company

Enter the strange and dusty world of CYCLOPEDIA; a phantasmagorical place where the billions of thoughts, stories, poems, equations, experiments and doctrines of humanity have found their way. Follow the unpredictable adventures of three odd and ever-changing characters as they forge their way through this sea of manmade madness in search of answers to the oldest and most mysterious questions of all time -- who are we, why are we here and where are we going? CYCLOPEDIA celebrates Margolis Brown ADAPTORS dynamic approach to theater and melds a highly charged physicality with multimedia magic, puppetry and the wry revelation of the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.

Above and Beyond

November 28 - December 7

Air Dance Bernasconi

Dance once again takes to the air at Theatre Project in an evening-long program sure to delight the entire family when Baltimore’s own Air Dance Bernasconi returns to our stage. Utilizing a number of different aerial techniques, ADB presents a unique and spectacular dance form.

danceRINK Presents Alice in Wonderland

December 17-21

Adapted from a vintage 1950 radio-play starring Dina Shore as the voice of Alice and with additional music by the composer Raymond Scott, Director/Choreographer Scott Rink creates a singular dance/theatre experience: re-telling the familiar "Alice in Wonderland" tale staged in a swirl of dance, movement and unique images which will thrill and excite audiences of all ages. Join DanceRink (making their Baltimore debut) as they journey down the rabbit hole in this striking production.

The Pantolite's Puss in Boots

British-style Pantomime

December 26-Jan 4

Dec. 26 -30, & Jan. 2 - 4 @ 7pm

Dec. 27, 28, 31 & Jan. 3 -4 @ 2pm

The Eagle Has Landed

January 29 - February 8, 2009

Fools Proof Theatre

This multi-national company (Germany, UK, USA) presents a show about memory, and the overpowering effect of someone who is not there. The most unlikely of heroes, an odd but charming BBC Radio 4 reporter goes on a journey to find his brother who has been missing for twenty years. A moving story told with quirky humor, idiosyncratic characters, cinematic perspectives, and rapid, surprising scene changes.

The Mechanical

March 26 - April 5, 2009

Bond Street Theatre

The Mechanical transplants the outcast creature from Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” into the true story of a sensational chessplaying robot built in the late 18th century, a novelty that amazed royalty, foreshadowed computers, and duped the public by its clever mechanisms and concealed human assistant. Using multimedia, puppetry and the physical and musical abilities of the actors of the Bond Street Theatre ensemble, the production will explore an age of revolutions – political, social, scientifi c and industrial – and the current, volatile crossings of science and religion, with insights into today’s exiles, refugees, and traffi cked humans.

Living Openly and Notoriously

April 30 - May 10, 2009

Elizabeth Hess

A solo trilogy of one-acts that traces a Mennonite woman’s struggle to break out of her repressive roots. Through rebellious experimentation and flirtation with madness, she finally arrives at a heart-felt place of genuine aliveness and untamed authenticity. The original, autobiographical works will be performed in repertory and in a single-day marathon by well-known New York stage and television actress Elizabeth Hess. Subscribers receive tickets to all three one acts, performed separately or on one day. Elizabeth Hess Website

Paraffin

June 4 - 14, 2009

Naoko Maeshiba/ Kibism

Returning with her third production at Theatre Project, Naoko Maeshiba/Kibism will present Paraffin, a dance theatre piece that investigates the subliminal forces of formulas that affect our identity. Illuminating our fear and yearning for the hidden and the obscured, the piece explores man’s eternally unfulfilled thirst for illusion. In collaboration with the ensemble of eight performers, choreographer/director Naoko Maeshiba extracts subtle beauty and vibrant festivity from the seemingly insignificant and the lost. Paraffin, an allegory about our precarious state of being, takes you through an exquisite and hypnotic landscape charged with intense physicality.