Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has announced a 2012-2013 season which will close down its 1727 North Charles Street venue with the memory of war, and then inaugurate its tenure at its new downtown Inner Harbor location on 315 West Fayette Street with a series of domestic dramas and comedies, full of strategy and explosiveness.
Fifty Words
A night off. No kids, no responsibilities. Just a husband and wife, Chinese takeout, and a bottle of wine. This rare “just the two of us” evening proves to be a dark night of the soul in Michael Weller’s taut Fifty Words, a piercing examination of how in the hell any relationship survives, much less […]
Private Lives
Like the character Amanda Prynne’s (Deborah Hazlett) heart, Private Lives is jagged with sophistication. Noel Coward’s oft-produced 1930 play—which he starred in with his great friend and co-conspirator Gertrude Lawrence—combines Brit wit, class and style in its wicked laceration of upper-class manners and unconventional mores.
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun was groundbreaking in 1959 and is heartbreaking in 2011. Lorraine Hansberry’s play about a working class black family in Chicago chasing middle class dreams is vivid, vital and fiercely wrought more than 50 years later in an eloquent and robust production at Everyman Theatre.
Pygmalion
In the midst of a rainy spring, the real sunshine can be found indoors, courtesy of Everyman Theatre’s fresh-as-a-daisy production of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, directed with wit and relish by Eleanor Holdridge.
Stick Fly
No need to finagle an invite to the LeVay family’s handsomely appointed summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Just get a ticket to Everyman Theatre’s deliciously enjoyable production of Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, kick back and savor this household’s unique blend of hospitality and dysfunction.
Shipwrecked!
A cracking good yarn, entertainingly recounted, makes a smashing start to the fall theater season. Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told by Himself) by playwright Donald Margulies, charmingly revives the old-school art of storytelling in a delightful, low-tech comedy at Everyman Theatre that will captivate both Luddites and whippersnappers […]
Blackbird
Call it a taboo love story, call it child molestation. However you feel about the subject matter of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, Everyman Theatre’s production is 90 minutes of nail-biting, heart-flipping perfection.
Director Derek Goldman finds the all too-human complexities and unsettling truths in the story of a charged reunion between a young woman named Una (Megan Anderson) and Ray (David Parkes), who was her 40-year-old lover when she was 12.