Baltimore has more than 30 independent theater companies, not including professional and semi-professional establishments like Baltimore Center Stage, Everyman Theatre, the Hippodrome Theatre and Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. It’s ripe with talent and innovative interpretations for an affordable night (or afternoon matinee) out, especially during the dead of winter.
Here are some options worth braving the cold for in Baltimore City this February.
New, Newish or Rarely Told
“Everything is Wonderful” presented by Everyman Theatre, through Feb. 24 at Everyman Theatre, 315 W. Fayette St., info/tickets.
This new play, which debuted at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2017, looks at a repentant driver who seeks forgiveness from the Amish family whose sons he killed in a fatal collision. Faith guides them to welcome him into their community and their home. But as inconvenient truths from the family’s past are discovered, their outpouring of empathy is tested. Resident company members Bruce Randolph Nelson and Deborah Hazlett plumb the depths of an outlying culture in this enthralling, critically acclaimed drama about a peaceful community wrestling with regret, redemption and contradiction.
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