The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
The Poe house is going to be on TV!!! Stay tuned to Ghost Detectives in Mid-June!!!
The Great Poe Debate - Obit Magazine
Pub Events: CENTERSTAGE and Baltimore Open Theatre are joining forces and creating a platform for Baltimore performing artists to showcase, workshop, and explore new artistic ideas—beer in hand.
These events will be hosted at Liam Flynn’s Ale House, 22 W. North Avenue, and are free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary, but please arrive a bit early to buy a beverage and snag a primo seat.
On April 22, at 7 pm, UnSaddest Factory presents a reading of A Day By Yourself by Lola Pierson, which follows two women as they formulate the often arbitrary boundaries between secrets, sentimentality, and intimacy. Based on actual events in the lives of the actors in the show, A Day By Yourself explores what it means to be present in one’s own life. Probably you will cry, but only if you’ve ever made a terrible decision. This exciting new play features Sophie Hinderberger, Naomi Kline, Cricket Arrison, Sarah Lloyd, and Jessie Hughes.
“Technology, Art Forge Vital Connection” By ERIN E. BORG
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Open Walls Baltimore is an unparalleled street art project in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District. The finest and most widely recognized street artists from around the world are mounting an outdoor exhibition of extraordinary murals that enlivens public spaces, stimulates community revitalization and national dialogue, and attracts visitors and investors to Station North. Open Walls Baltimore will build through April and May with the installation of more than twenty additional murals in time for a Final Friday celebration on May 25th.
Check out the wonderful Urban Bush Women if you haven’t already. And then, if you’re in or near Baltimore this spring (April 26 -29), come check out the exciting collaborative exploration that joins UBW member Jawole Willa Jo Zollar with fellow pioneer Liz Lerman, in the final Play Lab of our season at CENTERSTAGE:
Dance pioneers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Liz Lerman embark upon their first-ever collaboration, in a creative residency at CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore. This multi-faceted partnership will use the duo’s artistic rigor, distinctive creative processes, friendship, and humor to explore questions about civil rights, poverty and economic inequality, aging, and feminism across today’s United States.
Published January 27, 2012
by Rachel MonroePittsburgh and steel; Los Angeles and the movies — many American cities are defined by the industries that shape them. And while in Baltimore that may have once meant shipping and port activities, these days we’re a university city. And that’s not a bad thing at all.
In a recent survey, education expert Dr. Evan Dobelle quantified the economic impact that colleges and universities have on major metropolitan areas… and ranked the Baltimore area as the number three “metroversity” in the U.S. In other words, higher education is a huge economic force around these parts. [cont’d…]
10th grade English students from Friends School up the road just complemented their reading of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God with a class visit from some of the production team and a trip to see the production of Gleam at CENTERSTAGE. Here are their thoughts on the conversation, the adaptation, the production and performances, and the story. Smart bunch.
“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you’ll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It’s as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.” ― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
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A spot of drink with your pub read calls for a few rules, now…
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