Spotlighters Theatre - SEASON 63 Sept 2025 - Aug 2026
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Topdog/Underdog
Playwright: Suzan-Lori Parks Show Dates: 9/19/25-10/12/25 Director: Rain Pryor Co-Producer: Endangered Species Theatre Project Season Producer: Valerie Lash THE STORY - Topdog/Underdog is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that explores the lives of two Black brothers, Lincoln and Booth, who navigate poverty and sibling rivalry. Abandoned as teenagers, the brothers rely on each other for survival. Lincoln, a former con artist, now impersonates Abraham Lincoln at an arcade, while Booth makes a living as a petty thief. The play delves into their troubled past and examines whether they can support each other to build a better future. AUDITIONS
Saturday, June 28, 2025 11am - 3pm Sunday, June 29, 2025 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid Sign up to audition HERE More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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A Tuna Christmas
Playwright: Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard Show Dates: 12/5/25-12/21/25 Director: Adrienne Bergeron Season Producer: Valerie Lash THE STORY - Set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, A Tuna Christmas centers around the town’s annual Christmas Yard Display Contest, won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious "Christmas Phantom”, known for vandalizing the yard displays, threatens to throw the contest into turmoil. Meanwhile, Stanley Bumiller is attempting to end his probation, Bertha Bumiller is trying desperately to hold her family together at Christmas time, and Joe Bob struggles to successfully mount his production of a holiday classic. Through it all, hilarity is the real gift for everyone this holiday season. AUDITIONS
Saturday, September 20, 2025 11am - 3pm Sunday, September 21, 2025 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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Seven Guitars
Baltimore August Wilson Celebration Playwright: August Wilson Show Dates: 1/9/26-2/1/26 Director: To Be Announced Season Producer: Valerie Lash The Story - Set in the backyard of a boardinghouse in the 1940s, the play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters. Through a series of flashbacks, we meet an aspiring blues musician, an ailing old man, and three single women. As the play bounces back and forth in time we experience the plight of African-Americans struggling to find meaning while navigating the realities of post-war poverty in Pittsburgh. AUDITIONS
Saturday, September 27, 2025 11am - 3pm Sunday, September 28, 2025 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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Antigone
Playwright: Sophocles Show Dates: 3/6/26-3/29/26 Director: Emma Hooks Season Producer: Valerie Lash THE STORY - Antigone is a 5th Century BC Athenian tragedy that explores the conflict between personal morality and state law. Antigone’s brothers have been killed in the civil war and the new ruler, Creon, does not want the body of the rebel brother, Polynices, to be properly buried. Antigone defies Creon’s decree despite the consequences she may face in order to honor her deceased brother. AUDITIONS
Saturday, December 13, 2025 11am - 3pm Sunday, December 14, 2025 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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You Can’t Take It With You
Playwright: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Show Dates: 4/24/26-5/17/26 Director: Michael Blum Season Producer: Valerie Lash THE STORY - Alice Sycamore has to introduce the family of her fiance, Tony Kirby, to her own family. The Kirbys are a wealthy, stuffy family of great importance, while the Sycamores are a collection of lunatics. When the two families come together, lifestyle and philosophy collide with uproarious laughter. AUDITIONS
Saturday, January 31, 2026 11am - 3pm Sunday, Feb 1, 2026 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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The Crayon King,
Or Learning To Share Playwright: Jeffrey Higgins Show Dates: 6/12/26-7/5/26 Director: Lydia West Choreographer: Robert Mintz Season Producer: Valerie Lash THE STORY - The Crayon King, or Learning to Share is a family-friendly musical about four kindergarteners (played by adults): Ricky, Frankie, Jimmy, and Kristen. Their social status is based on the size of their crayon box. Ricky and his best friend, Frankie, each have twenty-four crayons. Jimmy always tries to just be his creative self, but he is constantly confronted with the difficulties of having only eight crayons. Kristen manipulates her fellow students by wielding her forty-eight crayons over them. Secrets come out. Feelings are hurt. Crayons are broken. But in the end, these youngsters learn that it should be who you are on the inside and not what you color with that counts. AUDITIONS
Saturday, Mar 21, 2026 11am - 3pm Sunday, Mar 22, 2026 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
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BALTIMORE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Playwright - to be determined Aug 8 - Aug 16, 2026 directed by - to be announced Season Producer: Valerie Lash A new work by a local Baltimore playwright will be selected from this season of exciting BPF readings! Check out the readings (more info at www.baltplayfest.org) and then see the FIRST production of a new play! AUDITIONS
Saturday, May 16, 2026 11am - 3pm Sunday, May 17, 2026 6pm - 9pm Non-Equity/Non-Paid More info at www.spotlighters.org/auditions |
