Paula Vogel's THE BALTIMORE WALTZ to Open Rep Stage's 2015-16 Season

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its 23rd season with Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz," directed by Suzanne Beal, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director. Vogel's fantastical farce traces the European odyssey of sister and brother Anna and Carl in search of romance and a cure for Anna's terminal illness, the fictitious ATD (acquired toilet disease) she contracted by using the bathrooms at the elementary school where she teaches. Critically acclaimed by the New York Times as "a crazy-quilt patchwork of hyperventilating language, erotic jokes, movie kitsch...that spins before the audience in Viennese waltz time, replete with a dizzying fall," Rep Stage presents this Obie Award-winning play during the 25th anniversary year of the original workshop production.

"The Baltimore Waltz" opens August 26, 2015, with a limited run through September 13 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC. For tickets and additional information, visit www.repstage.org or call the box office at 443-518-1500.

Paula Vogel's plays have been performed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and Circle Repertory in New York, the American Repertory Theatre, the Goodman, the Magic Theatre, Center Stage and Alley Theatre as well as throughout Canada, England, Brazil and Spain. "The Baltimore Waltz" won the Obie for Best Play in 1992 and Vogel's anthology, "The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays," has been published by TCG. Other plays include "Hot and Throbbing," "Desdemona," "And Baby Makes Seven," "The Oldest Profession" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "How I Learned To Drive." Recently, her play "A Civil War Christmas" was produced at Center Stage in Baltimore, and her new play "Indecent," about a controversial moment in Jewish cultural history, will be part of Yale Repertory Theater's 2015-16 season. Other awards include the AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the McKnight Fellowship.