The Thaumaturgy Department
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work

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.
Website of Prof. D.L. Ashliman, folklorist and literary historian, author of A Guide to Folktales in the English Language and other resources we’ve found quite useful in prepping for Into the Woods (and just intriguing in their own right).
Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama by (Professor) Ellen Handler Spitz
Experiencing the phases of childhood through art
This fabulous website collects parallel tellings across cultures and through time for some of the most common and most obscure folk and fairy tales. In this instances, versions and variants of Rapunzel.
