Everyman Theatre Announces Upcoming Season

Everyman Theatre has announced its 2013/14 season - the first full season in its new home on Fayette Street. The line-up includes three giants of the theatrical world - The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, and The Dresser by Ronald Harwood - and three award-winning newer plays that have taken New York and London by storm - Red by John Logan, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, and Tribes by Nina Raine.

The Glass Menagerie by America's beloved playwright Tennessee Williams is the first production of the 2013/2014 season, running from September 4^th through September 29^th. Called the "greatest play ever written" (Pittsburgh City Paper), The Glass Menagerie tells the story of Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle, and her two children: Tom, an aspiring poet, and Laura, his painfully shy sister. After receiving pressue from his mother, Tom brings home a gentleman caller to meet his sister. What follows is an encounter that becomes one of the most compelling and heartbreaking stories ever told. A classic of the American stage, Tennessee Williams' deeply personal and haunting "memory play" is a touching and profound tale of love and loss, illusion and escape.

Six-time Tony Award-winner Red by John Logan will be the second production of the season. Running from November 6^th - December 1^st, this Baltimore premiere sends you crashing into the vivid and visceral mind of an artistic genius - abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Set against the changing cultural landscape of the early 1960s, the celebrated artist has just landed his biggest commission: a series of massive murals for New York's posh Four Seasons Restaurant. In the midst of his creation, Rothko's young, new assistant questions his artistic integrity, forcing the famed artist to confront the possibility that his crowning achievement could become his ultimate downfall. A searing portrait of an artist's determination and vulnerability,Red is a stirring and captivating story of one of the most celebrated artists in modern times.

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley will run from January 8^th - February 2^nd. Beth Henley's comedy brings you into the Mississippi household of the Magrath sisters. Babe has just shot her husband because she didn't like his looks. Meg is back in town after a failed attempt in the music business and a nervous breakdown. And poor Lenny - everyone has forgotten her 30^th birthday...plus, her pet horse was just struck by lightning! Bad luck certainly runs deep among the Magrath clan. But with warm-hearted laughs and touching family moments, the sisters forgive the past, face the present, and embrace the future in this contemporary American stage classic.

The Dresser by Ronald Harwood will be the fourth production of the season, running from February 26 - March 23^rd. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, The Dresser is a backstage tale of life upon the wicked stage and the power that theatre has to lift the human spirit in times of great strife. As Britain is under attack from German aircraft, a group of traveling, ragtag Shakespearean players tours the English countryside performing the Bard's tragic masterpiece, King Lear. Sir is the last of the great actors of a generation that has since past. As he prepares to play his 227^th performance as Lear, he suddenly realizes he cannot recall his first line. It is only his dedicated and loyal dresser, Norman, who would do anything to help lift his master, that can bring the once-great actor to the stage for a final curtain call.

Hailed as "flat-out funny!" by the Hollywood Reporter, the fifth show in the 2013/14 season will be the Baltimore premiere of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, running from April 16^th - May 11^th. It's the height of 1930s Hollywood. Film studios are filled with glitz, glamor, and eager starlets just waiting to be discovered. Enter Vera Stark, a determined and headstrong African American maid to a white movie star. But it turns out that Vera is an actress, too! When the stars align and both actresses are cast in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with an unexpected and debated legacy scholars will question for decades to come. Deliciously funny and wildly entertaining, By the Way, Meet Vera Starkuses today's obsession and fascination with tabloids and celebrity gossip to get to the truth behind this mysterious legend of Hollywood.

The 2013/14 season will wrap up with the Baltimore premiere of the recent hit out of London and New York - Tribes by Nina Raine. Billy is a young man who lives with an intellectual, chaotic and sharp-tongued family. Arguments and insults regularly fly around the dinner table, all while Billy silently watches the scene unfold - he has been deaf since birth. He has managed to adapt to his family's unconventional ways, but they've never really returned the favor. His world is turned upside down when he meets Sylvia, a young woman on the cusp of deafness herself. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play,Tribes is the hysterical and touching coming-of-story about the struggle for self-identity and what it truly means to be understood. Tribes will run from May 28^th - June 22^nd.

Casting and directors for each production will be announced later this summer.

Renewal subscriptions for current Everyman Theatre subscribers are on sale now. Current subscribers will receive their renewal materials in the mail beginning today. New memberships will go on sale to the general public beginning on Monday, June 3rd and may be purchased in person at the box office, on the website (www.everymantheatre.org) or by phone(410.752.2208).

Everyman Theatre is a professional Equity theatre company celebrating the actor, with a resident company of artists from the Baltimore/DC area. Founded in 1990 by Vincent Lancisi, the theatre is dedicated to engaging the audience through a shared experience between actor and audience seeking connection and emotional truth in performance. Everyman is committed to presenting high quality plays that are affordable and accessible to everyone.

Vincent Lancisi is the Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre; Ian Tresselt is the Managing Director.

For information about Everyman Theatre, visit http://www.everymantheatre.org/ or call 410.752.2208.