Baltimore Theatre Project's 2024/25 Season!

Arts and Entertainment

September 25, 2024

It’s Here!

Theatre Project's 2024/25 Season

Original works, new takes on classics, World and Baltimore premieres by Resident and Guest Artists highlight Theatre Project's new Season!

There’s something for everyone!

Resident Artists

Each season Theatre Project proudly presents the extraordinary work of its Resident Artists; companies that make Theatre Project an artistic home. Here are the offerings from our Resident Artists.

Back for its 26th year is HIGH ZERO, the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, featuring the most inspired improvisors from around the world.

Next up is the innovative opera company IN Series, with Marc Blitzstein's THE CRADLE WILL ROCK. Governments and unions alike tried to ban its legendary first performance. Artists defied those orders to bring this searing work to life. This imaginative new version honors the story of this rarely heard classic’s origin with new energy, humor, melody, and a thirst for justice.

The incomparable Happenstance Theater returns to Theatre Project in October and November with CABARET NOIR, a series of dark, comic vignettes featuring Femmes Fatales and fedoras, trench coats and torch songs, intrigue, suspense, and shadows. The ensemble mesmerizes in a virtuosic display of physical comedy, object manipulation, and period style, with music played on multiple instruments, and characters costumed in vintage attire.

December features Alex and Olmsted with their new show HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MON AMI. Class, cultures, and expectations clash when Jacques’ American cousin Sam visits him in Paris for a birthday celebration.

Winner of a 2024 Jim Henson Foundation grant award, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MON AMI combines glove puppetry, live music, and audience participation to create a delightful hour of fun for the whole family.

Also in December, IN Series returns for RIGOLETTO. This circus version of RIGOLETTO, complete with a circus band and bawdy new text by Bari Biern, is at once darkly devilish, toe-tappingly infectious, and horrifically funny. Verdi’s masterpiece is made intimate, in-your-face, and inescapably enjoyable under the big top.

To open 2025, Iron Crow Theatre is back with AN ACT OF GOD. The Almighty is coming, and he/she/they are pissed! Get ready for a night of celestial comedy as David Javerbaum’s delightfully sassy, 90-minute romp brings God — accompanied by two fabulous angels — to Baltimore for a divine intervention of epic proportions!

In February, long-time partner Peabody Chamber Opera is teaming up with Peabody Historical Performance to present Francesco Cavalli’s opera LA CALISTO.

In March, IN Series' third production is Monteverdi's POPPEA, bringing the composer’s most famous and audacious final opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal to life inspired by the performance tradition of South India, and specifically Bharatanatyam dance. This landmark production is of one of opera’s undisputed masterpieces.

March will also include Vincent E. Thomas and Gabriel Thom Pasculli's PRAISE!, an investigation of self and spirit through a child’s experience of CHURCH. Through dance, song and religious fantasy, the two performers crisscross their own memories as well as the queer, creative, and erotic Heavenly spheres as they attempt to reconcile the mixed messages of coming-of-age within the modern mythos of Christ.

In April, Iron Crow Theatre opens its second production of the season, Sarah Ruhl’s HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE.

Overflowing with subversive enchantment, HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE takes you on a wild ride through the uncharted territories of love and desire, polyamory, throuples, and matrimony. This provocative play combines absurd domestic comedy with erotic magical realism, unraveling the blurred lines between strangers, friends, and lovers.

Vincent Thomas and VTDance will return in May with a brand new contemporary dance piece.

IN Series’ final production of the season is the long-awaited world premiere of the first “living newspaper,” ETHIOPIA. This work was banned by the Roosevelt administration and never performed, until now. Written in 1937, this production fuses theater and music to tell the hot-off-the-press story of Italy’s colonialist attack on Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia while the world stayed silent.

Iron Crow Theatre wraps up our season with THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: 2025 PRIDE EDITION, their annual fundraiser and Baltimore’s favorite LIVE tradition, returning in a new raucous celebratory pride event!

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”

Guest Artists

The new season will also feature many Guest Artists including Mind on Fire and their new opera and we, each.

Making a stop in Baltimore on their east coast tour is New York City-based SHIFT, Dance. Arts. & Media with ELEVATION EAST, an evening of modern dance.

In October, we are thrilled to welcome back London-based Single Shoe Productions with their brand-new original work A WALL BETWEEN US, which combines video projection, visual storytelling and illusions to interweave three revealing stories, examining our need to belong to a place, how this affects us, others, and the land itself.

There will be dance in November with the HBCU Dance Project. Dance companies from our local Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University, as well as a guest company from Philadelphia, Danse4Nia/Phoenix Danse. present TRANSFORMATIVE RYTHMS.

If you love puppetry, you won’t want to miss LOCO 7 from New York. They’ll be presenting LUNCH WITH SONIA, a dance puppet theatre piece, inspired by co-writer & director Federico Restrepo’s true-life experience with his Aunt Sonia, who decided to end her life with dignity after a long illness at the age of 72. The show uses puppets, live actors, music, video and physical theatre to deal with the themes of life, love, and loss.

For the holiday season, Baltimore improvisor Michael Harris and friends bring us BAH HUMBUG – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (MOSTLY) IMPROVISED!

Baltimore area artists: interdisciplinary visual artist Farida Hughes, and classical percussionist Matthew Keown present BELOW THE SURFACE. This novel evening of visual art and music takes inspiration from both the generative and erosive power of volcanic activity and the creative forces of nature to parallel the act of artistic creation.

Theatrical Mining Company will present QUITTING TIME, a new work by local playwright Jack Gohn.

Industrial-Strength Theater, a Theatre Project Resident Company in the 80’s & 90’s is back! In March they will be presenting five weird and strange tales of Mobtown in THE BALTIMORE BAZAAR OF THE BIZARRE! Five radio plays performed and recorded LIVE, with live sound effects and original music!

And in May they will revive George Bernard Shaw’s DON JUAN IN HELL as well as a special, one-night-only reading of Tony Tsendeas’ KING UBU, a wholly new play, inspired by the works of Alfred Jarry, and his UBU ROI, which invigorated the absurdist playwrights of the 20th century.

And Phill Branch will present the 2nd annual BALTIMORE STORY FEST, also in May.

As always, shows, special events, and exhibits in our John Fonda Gallery are added throughout the year. Updates to the season and gallery schedule can be found on our website, theatreproject.org.

Admission Packages (The prices remain the same)

We offer two different admission packages providing the flexibility you need.

If you are someone who likes to sample a little of everything, choose our Standard Flex Pass, valid for 6 admissions to most Theatre Project shows (special events and other special engagements excluded.) Price: $100 ($85 for Seniors 65 and over)

And for those of you who want it all, and who doesn't, the All Access Pass gives you two admissions to most every Theatre Project show (special events and other special engagements excluded.) Price: $200

To purchase a Flex Pass call 410-752-8558, or email [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you here at The Philip Arnoult Stage at Theatre Project!

Theatre Project's 2024/25 Season Schedule

HIGH ZERO 2024

High Zero Foundation (Baltimore)

September 19 - 22

and we, each

Mind on Fire (Baltimore)

September 28 & 29

ELEVATION EAST

SHIFT, Dance. Art. & Media. (New York City)

October 5