CABARET, DOUBT Highlight 2010-11 Spotlighters Season

Spotlighters present another season of great theatre for the Baltimore community! For over 48 years Spotlighters has challenged actors and audiences with powerful performances in our intimate space. Balitmore's only theatre in the round, where no seat is more that 15 feet from the edge of the stage - no one can hide from the drama on stage!

This season Spotlighters opens the season with Kander & Ebb's CABARET!

Cabaret
Music & Lyrics by Kander & Ebb
Book by Joe Masteroff
directed by Erin Riley
musical direction by Michael Tan

Sept 10 - Oct 10, 2010

What good is sitting alone in your room? Join us for a trip to Pre-WWII Berlin where the girls are beautiful, the champagne endless and the Kit Kat Klub is swinging to the sound of the one and only Sally Bowles. Come hear the music play, in an intimate setting filled with Kit Kat Girls, Nazis and love in the air!

Audrey Herman Celebration
(Fund Raiser/Season Celebration)
Saturday, Oct 9, 2010
Reception at 7:00pm
Performance of "Cabaret" at 8pm
Awards & Recognition at Intermission
Post-Performance Dessert Reception with Cast & Crew

ALL Tickets $25

Celebrate our 49th Season of Great Theatre and the kick off our capital campaign to complete ADA renovations to the theatre. Includes a performance of Cabaret, pre-show reception, Silent Auction, and post-show dessert reception with cast & crew. A Mainstage Production.

Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
directed by Phil Gallagher
Oct 22 - Nov 14, 2010

A comic tale of unrequited love, featuring mistaken identities, cross-dressing, fights and duels, a drunken lord of misrule, and a spoilsport's come-uppance. A saturnalia of a play - guaranteed to invoke the festive spirit and exorcize that of the killjoy! A Mainstage Production.

Stage Blood
Charles Ludlam
directed by Michael Spellman
Nov 26 - Dec 19, 2010

As a troop of bumbling actors perform Hamlet, things backstage start to mirror the onstage action.... a sidesplitting brew of murder, infidelity and betrayal. If you're not up for the long version, here's what you've been waiting for - a short, hilarious Hamlet.

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
directed by Sherrionne Brown
Jan 7 - Feb 6, 2011

Blanche DuBois, a fading but still-attractive southern belle whose pretensions of virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur, arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister, Stella, and her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Over the course of one hot, sultry New Orleans summer, Blanche's fragile facade slowly crumbles as she meets her match in the rough-hewn, brutish and sensual Stanley who sees through her and is determined to expose her. A tale of delicate indiscretions, lost dreams and brutish actions which, in the end, leads Blanche to madness. A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in New York in 1947, cementing Tennessee Williams' reputation as one of the greatest American Playwrights and winning him a New York's Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. A Mainstage Production.

Approaching Zanzibar

Tina Howe
directed by Brad J. Ranno
Feb 18 - Mar 13, 2011

An American nuclear family confronts life, death, and everything in-between on a cross-country vacation to see the country and visit a dying relative. Tina Howe's absurd and uplifting comedy shows us how the average American family journey's through metaphors for morality and the limits of human creativity. Each member of the Blossom family learn to develop from their fears and obstacles in life to a renewed sense of hope. A Mainstage Production.

The Great American
Trailer Park Musical
Music and Lyrics by David Nehls
Book by Betsy Kelso
directed by Fuzz Roark
musical direction by Michael Tan
Mar 25 - Apr 24, 2011

We return to Armadillo Acres for agoraphobia, adultery, spray cheese, disco, road kills, hysterical pregnancy, strippers and a broken electric chair! There's a new tenant in Armadillo Acres and she's wreaking havoc all over North Florida's most exclusive manufactured housing community. The Divas of the double-wides have survived everything from no-good husbands to kid-napping to bad-perms! But when Pippi - a stripper on the run - comes between agoraphobic homebody Jeannie and her toll-collector husband a storm begins to brew! And this storm shakes the trailer park right down to it's foundation! A Mainstage Production.

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley
directed by Randy Dalmas
May 13 - June 12, 2011

A gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Do power and certainty equate with right? A Mainstage Production.

A Little Night Music

Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
directed by David C. Allen
musical direction by Michael Tan
June 24 - July 24, 2011

Like a whirling waltz with romantic partners moving through relationships in transition, some to an end, some to be formed, some momentary and some lasting, but all illustrating the vicissitudes of love; A Little Night Music sweeps the audience into places of desire and thought, all inciting, and all forbidden. A Little Night Music claimed five 1973 Tony Awards. A Mainstage Production.

PLUS --- 16 special events throughout the season! Visit www.spotlighters.org for more information.