Baltimore is a theater town, which is never more evident than in the Lusty Month of May, when many companies are presenting their season finales or sole productions. This month, audiences in Baltimore and its closes suburbs have a chance to see 36 different productions (56 if you break out the 22 short plays in two different local playwright festivals). Expanding the theater radius just 10 or 15 miles includes dozens more productions, underscoring the truth in Baltimore/D.C. being named the fastest growing theater region in the country, according to a study by Actors’ Equity. Read on for information on how to take advantage of our city’s theatrical storytelling bounty this month.
Last Chance: Shows Closing the First Week of May“Janet Langhart Cohen’s Anne & Emmett” presented by Morgan State University Theater, through May 4 at Morgan State University’s Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center, 2201 Argonne Drive, info/tickets.
The play depicts an imagined conversation between Emmett Till, a young African-American who was lynched at the age of 14, and Anne Frank, who died at 15 in a Holocaust concentration camp.
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