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| | 48 HOUR Short Play Festival
coordinated by Alanna Kiewe
April 4 - 6, 2025
THE STORY: 48 HOUR Short Play Festival
At Spotlighters' 48-Hour Play Fest, playwrights, directors, and actors will have a little less than 48 hours to collaborate on a completely original 10-minute play.
The themes and topics of the pieces will be decided based on random suggestions selected Friday evening. This will be the kickoff launch party, where everyone will meet for the first time, and actors will be assigned randomly to a writing/directing team.
Once teams have been assigned, groups will have approximately 1 to 2 hours to brainstorm and discuss the story. Playwrights will then go home and write the script overnight.
All groups will then have all of Saturday to rehearse and make any rewrites as necessary. Sunday morning will be additional tech/rehearsal.
The shows will premiere Sunday, Apr 6 - 2PM to a live audience.
ALL TICKETS $15
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.
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| | BABY with the BATHWATER
written by Christopher Durang
directed by Michael Blum
Apr 25 - May 18, 2025
THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn’t speak English and too polite to check its sex. So, they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy—which leads to all manner of future emotional and personality problems when it turns out that Daisy is actually a boy.
Thereafter, in a series of brilliantly theatrical and wildly hilarious scenes, the saga of Daisy’s struggle to establish his identity continues, despite his parents’ growing obliviousness.
At the outset there is a zany nanny who gives him a lethal toy to play with; then the small problem of Daisy’s penchant, as a toddler, for throwing himself in front of buses; then his bizarre problems in school; and, finally, the sessions with his analyst which enable him, at last, to accept his maleness and stop wearing dresses.
In the end the play comes full circles as the former Daisy and his young bride fondly regard their own baby—forgiving of the past but determined not to repeat its calamitous mistakes.
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.
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| | CLYDE'S
written by Lynn Nottage
directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell
June 13 - July 6, 2025
THE STORY: In Clyde's, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption.
Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff members learn to reclaim their lives, find purpose, and become inspired to dream by their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
At Clyde’s, sandwiches aren’t just convenient meals served at lunch and dinner; they tell stories, hold truths and nourish dreams…the drama blossoms into a poignant story about worker solidarity and the meaning of second chances, loaded with laugh-out-loud funny jokes. — The Hollywood Reporter.
…[a] flavor-bomb of a comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up…a subversion of familiar genres, including drawing room comedy and workplace drama, and the value judgments conventionally inherent to them. By nature of her composition, Nottage also questions which sorts of rooms and people have previously been considered worthy of sustained attention. — Variety.
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.
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| | BPF - A New Work
written by To Be Announced
directed by To Be Announced
Aug 1 - Aug 17, 2025
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!
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.
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