The Living Room: Miss You Like Hell Experience
Driven by Annalisa Dias, Baltimore Center Stage Director of Artistic Partnerships and Innovation with support from The Pratt Library and Homie House Press, we have utilized community partnerships to transform the Nancy K. Roche Chapel into an area to facilitate insightful thought and opportunities for activism.
Humans of Baltimore Center Stage
Get to know us! The staff here at BCS are gloriously talented and interesting even away from work! Check out some of our peeps and their interests, in this semi-regular summer series.
When I Think Of Music
Few musicians covered such a range of musical history and genre as Hathaway in his short, but powerful, career.
Community & Creation: Celebrating Local Black Artists
How to Catch Creation is an ode to Black creativity, telling intersecting stories of artists and their work across time and space. This same creative spirit that is onstage blossoms throughout Baltimore. We celebrate Black art on our stage, and we celebrate the creation that happens right here in our communities.
A Quiet Revolution
How to Catch Creation is a “radical departure” from sensationalized Black narratives typically represented in American Theater. From the show program: “By writing Black characters who are middle-class, successful, and flourishing in their talents, Anderson commits the revolutionary act of representing Black people as people: people who have messy love lives, drink too much wine, and make art.”
Meet How To Catch Creation Playwright Christina Anderson
Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Creation playwright Christina Anderson has had her works produced at places like The Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons and has won honors like the Lorraine Hansberry Award and the Harper Lee Award. Learn more about Christina and her path to Creation in her own words.
Meet Indecent Playwright Paula Vogel
Playwright Paula Vogel, a titan of the American theater who just so happens to be a Marylander and one of BCS’s most frequent collaborators. We’ve experienced her brilliance in our productions of The Baltimore Waltz, How I Learned to Drive, and A Civil War Christmas.
Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For
Long before her Fun Home fame, Alison Bechdel was best known for her comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF).
Page To Stage: The Making Of Fun Home
Fun Home has taken the theater world by storm since its Broadway debut in 2015. It has been lauded across the board for its innovations of the musical theater form, as well as for its all-female writing team and its tender representation of queer stories. But this overnight success certainly didn’t happen overnight.
Anastacia In Conversation
Anastacia McCleskey, who starred in SOUL The Stax Musical as Deanie Parker, returns as Cherry Hill (and Young Swann) in A Wonder in My Soul. Check out this conversation about returning to Baltimore, about playing two strong female characters, and about the music in both productions.