Announcing
Season 61 - 2023/2024
The number 61 has a wide range of meanings.... but most focus on Compassion & Nurture, Harmony & Balance.
The productions this season follow these guide words and topics.
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TICKETS: $24 Adults; $21 Students, Seniors & Military
Members Tickets: $22 Adults; $19 Students, Seniors & Military Become A Members by donating $25 or more to Spotlighters Theatre! TICKETS ARE ON SALE! Season Flex Passes are On Sale! Fun Night Friday - all tickets $18 Ten Spot Thursday - all tickets $10 |
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Circle Mirror Transformation
by Annie Baker directed by Nick Cherone staged managed/assistant directed by Jen Sizer Performance Dates: Sept 15 - Oct 1, 2023 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: In the small town of Shirley, Vermont, five strangers gather in a dance studio to embark on a unique journey together in a creative drama class for adults. The group moves through a series of acting exercises, ranging from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. In this one small room, through these few seemingly trivial games, quiet wars are waged, emotional wounds are nursed, and healing is finally, slowly, able to begin. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Sept 15, 2023 with Directors & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Sept 21 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Sept 24, 2023 with directors & cast immediately following matinee |
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Outward Bound
by Sutton Vane directed by Erin Klarner Performance Dates: Oct 27 - Nov 12, 2023 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: The year is 1923. Seven passengers meet in the saloon bar of a ship as it sets sail from an unidentified port. Socialite Mrs. Cliveden-Banks is on her way to join her husband, a Colonel in the army; Mr. Lingley has important business in Marseilles; charlady Mrs. Midget is making her first passage by sea; Reverend William Duke is looking forward to a holiday, while Tom Prior intends to spend the journey in the ship’s saloon bar. Also on board are Henry and Ann, a young couple who seem anxious for the ship to leave port. But the travelers have more in common than they dare suspect. Out at sea, an eerie calm settles over the ship as Tom is the first to discover the fate which awaits his fellow passengers … Outward Bound explores mortality and morality with light touches of social commentary and gallows humor. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Oct 27, 2023 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Nov 2, 2023 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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A Dickens' Christmas Carol . . . a one man show
written by Charles Dickens
edited & adapted for the stage by Sherrionne Brown and Phil Gallagher directed by Sherrionne Brown stage managed by Performance Dates: Dec 8 - 17, 2023 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm Join us for limited engagement of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL - in the style that Dickens himself performed the work, when he toured the United States in the 1860s.
“Bah! Humbug!”
Is there a more famous response to being wished “Merry Christmas!”? Scrooge, Tiny Tim, the trio of Christmas ghosts, and the story of what happens when a bitter old man is given one last chance at redemption, are as well-known as any of Dickens’ characters. They’ve been portrayed in films and on TV around the world and now you can meet them all, live on stage in Spotlighters’ captivating, one-man adaptation. Using only Dickens’ inimitable language, Phil Gallagher’s performance will thrill and chill audiences of all ages. With minimal props and costume, Gallagher portrays all these much-loved characters and breathes new life into a story that is as moving, relevant, and redemptive as it was when first written over 170 years ago. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Dec 8, 2023 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Dec 14, 2023 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Dec 10, 2023 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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The Effect of Gamma Rays
on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel directed by Michael Blum Performance Dates: Jan 19 - Feb 4, 2024 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: The old, converted vegetable shop where Tillie lives is more like a madhouse than a home. Tillie's mother, Beatrice, is bitter and cruel, yet desperate for her daughters' love. Her sister, Ruth, suffers epileptic fits and sneaks cigarettes every chance she gets. In the midst of chaos, Tillie struggles to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie - keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effects of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Jan 19, 2024 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Jan 25, 2024 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Jan 28, 2024 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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Laughing Stock
by Charles Morey directed by Erin Klarner Performance Dates: Mar 1 - Mar 17, 2024 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: A summer theater plans a season far too ambitious for its capabilities - Dracula, Hamlet, and Charley's Aunt in rep - and farce ensues. Tempers run high as the director and actors clash with the technical crew, and the audience is treated to a disaster of an opening night. Somehow, they manage to pull things together and impress their potential donors enough to secure funding to keep the theater open another year. Comic rehearsal and production scenes are interspersed with poignant conversations between the veteran company members, and by the end it's clear why despite all the chaos, the rookies decide to stick around next summer. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Mar 1, 2024 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Mar 7, 2024 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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Fag-Gods
by John Bavoso directed by Timoth David Copney A World Premiere of a new work - Baltimore Playwrights Festival Performance Dates: Apr 12 - Apr 28, 2024 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: After being ousted from Mt. Olympus by his children/fellow deities for being a PR nightmare, a modern-day Zeus finds a kindred spirit in Sissy Fuss, the burnt-out proprietress of a Greek mythology-obsessed drag club in Athens, GA. While they're hiding away from the world, Zeus’s children begin inserting themselves in the affairs of the kings and queens floundering in the wake of their fearless leader’s departure. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Apr 12, 2024 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Apr 18, 2024 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Apr 21, 2024 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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Love / Sick
by John Cariani directed by Alanna Kiewe Performance Dates: May 24 - June 9, 2024 Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm THE STORY: A darker cousin to Almost, Maine, John Cariani’s LOVE/SICK is a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a Friday night in an alternate suburban reality, this 80-minute romp explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Full of imperfect lovers and dreamers, LOVE/SICK is an unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: May 24, 2024 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: May 30, 2024 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Jun 2, 2024 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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The Wolves
by Sara DeLappe directed by Lanoree Blake Performance Dates: July 5 - Jul 21, 2024 THE STORY: Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals. There is no official rating system for live theatre. We encourage you to use your judgment based on your child's age and maturity level. TICKETS |
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OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: Jul 5, 2024 with Director & Cast - immediately following performance TEN SPOT Thursday: Jul 11, 2024 - 8pm ALL Tickets $10 TALK BACK: Sun, Jul 14, 2024 with director & cast immediately following matinee |
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Baltimore Playwrights Festival Production
PILLAR RABBIT . . . . by Mel Holley directed by Ta'Von Vinson BPF Producer: Miriam Bazensky Performance Dates: Aug 16 - Aug 25, 2024 (Just 2 weekends) THE STORY: When a Southern matriarch, Lunelle Pillar, loses her favorite son, Rodney, in the midst of her own battle with early-onset Alzheimer's, she is at least grateful she has her neighbor, Ethel, her daughter-in-law, Tracey, and her home-grown garden to keep her stable. It isn't until the rest of the family, Angelle, Kong, Lizzie, Bryton, and Marshall, come home to help bury the fallen Pillar that things become shaky for her. Information on the Baltimore Playwrights Festival at https://www.baltplayfest.org/ |
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