86th Season | 2007-2008
[Titles and dates subject to change.]

 

Past Productions

 
The Arabian Nights
Adapted by Mary Zimmerman
June 13 - June 29, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; Sundays at 2 pm
The Swirnow Theater, at the Mattin Arts Center,
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus. [Directions]
“Scheherezade, it is dawn and your father has come with your shroud.”
Known for her reworking of The Odyssey and Ovid's Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman has adorned the ancient tales of Scheherazade with the sensual pleasure of the living stage.

 
Special Program...
Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
A Staged Reading
Saturday, March 15 at 7:30 2 pm
Towson Unitarian Universalist Church
1710 Dulaney Valley Road, Lutherville, MD 21093
410.825.3427. Admission $8. Reservations suggested.
The crash of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 inspired this imagined account of an American mother who wanders the Scottish fields searching for the remains of her son, unable to be consoled by women who have suffered losses of their own.

 
Special Program...
Mistress of Riversdale
Friday, March 14, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
The College Park Arts Exchange: The Old Parish House
4711 Knox Road, College Park, Maryland
info@cpae.org, 301.927.3013
Admission: $5.
Adapted from the original words in the letters edited in Margaret Callcott's book, this one-woman dramatization devised by Suzanne Pratt, director of Theatre Hopkins, and performed by Cherie Weinert details the life of wealthy Belgian émigré Rosalie Stier Calvert, wife of George Calvert, at their plantation near Washington during the first two decades of the 19th century.

Spinning Into Butter
By Rebecca Gilman
February 22 through March 2, 2008
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm; Sundays at 2 pm
The Swirnow Theater, at the Mattin Arts Center,
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus. [Directions]
“Public dialogue is never real dialogue. Nobody will admit to anything in a crowd.”
When evidence of racist hostility erupts at a New England college, the new dean and liberal campus community are challenged to forsake their politically correct façade.

 
Nickel and Dimed
Adapted by Joan Holden from
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By Barbara Ehrenreich
November 2 - 18, 2007
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m.
Performed at Mobtown Theater at Meadow Mill
3600 Clipper Mill (off Union Ave in Hampden) [Directions]
"Our whole lives are subsidized. By the working poor.
They are our biggest anonymous donors."
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Adapted from Ehrenreich's very successful book, the drama, Nickel and Dimed, chronicles the author's first-hand exploration of the lives of Americans surviving on minimum wage income by joining their ranks.
Adult tickets are $15, student rush tickets are $5; we regret there is no senior rate at this time. Please note: Information on the Mobtown website may not apply to Theatre Hopkins.

 
Reading of Jane Eyre
Performed in conjunction with the exhibit
Eyre Apparent at the George Peabody Library
September 30, 2007 at 2 p.m.
George Peabody Library
17 E. Mt. Vernon Place (on the Peabody Institute campus)
As part of the Baltimore Book Fair, a series of 5 episodes from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre will be presented as a staged reading in the George Peabody Library, Sunday, September 30 beginning at 2 p.m. The passages vary in length between 10 and 20 minutes apiece.
Admission is free.