Joseph Ritsch News

She's all legs, has a blazing bouffant hairdo and an incredible pair of … lungs. For one night only, Sunrize Highway shines on stage in Sunrize: The Musical at Creative Alliance, Friday, April 26. Highway (also known as Joseph Ritsch, associate artistic director at Baltimore's Iron Crow Theatre Co.) pays homage to the great divas of contemporary musical theater, dappling it all with "whimsical reflections, winsome musings, sage advice and insightful showbiz stories." Special guests from Baltimore's boylesque, drag king and vaudeville scenes will open the performance.

Iron Crow Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 Season in residence at The Baltimore Theatre Project. The season includes one world premiere along with two Baltimore area premieres.

Everyman Theatre's You Can't Take It With You, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, plays now through June 17, 2012, at 1727 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md., offering performances Tuesday through Sunday, with selected Wednesday matinees. Watch a video trailer of the show below!

Meet the Sycamores - the delightfully eccentric family at the center of the action in the madcap comedy classic, You Can't Take It With You. They revel in day-to-day occurrences such as collecting snakes, making fireworks in the basement, and practicing ballet steps in the parlor. When their daughter Alice, decides to invite her conservative boyfriend's family to dinner, they promise to be on their best behavior. However...! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and adapted into an Academy Award winning film, this beloved comedy has been a perennial favorite to theatre-goers for more than 70 years.

Meet the Sycamores - the delightfully eccentric family at the center of the action in the madcap comedy classic, You Can't Take It With You. They revel in day-to-day occurrences such as collecting snakes, making fireworks in the basement, and practicing ballet steps in the parlor. When their daughter Alice, decides to invite her conservative boyfriend's family to dinner, they promise to be on their best behavior. However...! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and adapted into an Academy Award winning film, this beloved comedy has been a perennial favorite to theatre-goers for more than 70 years.

In his notes about the play, director Steven J. Satta-Fleming writes that The Soldier Dreams "is no more a play about AIDS than The Wizard of Oz is the story of a cyclone," and it's interesting how AIDS and homosexuality, while important catalysts, are both omnipresent and barely there in this beautiful, sad, hilarious, heartwarming offering that Iron Crow Theatre doesn't just produce but conquers.

Iron Crow Theatre presents Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams on Saturday, April 7, 8pm through April 21 at Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 West Preston Street, Baltimore. The Soldier Dreams features Marsha Becker, Rich Buchanan, Karin Cirghton, Joseph Ritsch, Steve Sawicki, Sarah Lynn Taylor, Alec Weinberg, and Paul Wissman.

Iron Crow Theatre presents Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams on Saturday, April 7, 8pm through April 21 at Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 West Preston Street, Baltimore. The Soldier Dreams features Marsha Becker, Rich Buchanan, Karin Crighton, Joseph Ritsch, Steve Sawicki, Sarah Lynn Taylor, Alec Weinberg, and Paul Wissman.

Iron Crow Theatre presents Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams on Saturday, April 7, 8pm through April 21 at Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 West Preston Street, Baltimore. The Soldier Dreams features Marsha Becker, Rich Buchanan, Karin Cirghton, Joseph Ritsch, Steve Sawicki, Sarah Lynn Taylor, Alec Weinberg, and Paul Wissman.

Iron Crow Theatre Company in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins University MLA program presents 'I Want To Be A Gay Icon!' at Baltimore Theatre Project.

Iron Crow Theatre Company in cooperation with the Johns Hopkins University MLA program presents 'I Want To Be A Gay Icon!' at Baltimore Theatre Project.

Iron Crow Theatre Company concludes its first season with a gripping localization of Brad Fraser's LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS.

Iron Crow Theatre Company will open its 2010-2011 season with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, September 4th-25th.

Iron Crow Theatre Company will open its 2010-2011 season with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, September 4th-25th.

In September, DC area theatres are filled with almost a dozen musical productions opening -- classics, family shows, and many wonderful plays being performed on our over 200 theatre venues. The humidity is finally melting away, and it's a perfect time to welcome the cooler weather and the colors of the Fall by making a trip to the Nation's Capital and catching a show or two or three. There are family shows with canines and rabbits, a Labor Day weekend theatre festival that's FREE, a new jazz musical with some of the area's most talented singers, and bugs and ants that swing on trapezes. Mr. Ripley is finally coming to town, while I'm hoping that all will be well at Shakespeare Theatre. Someone is trying to deal with a very troubling inch, a Bar-Mitzvah boy has to deal with his crazy family, spelling champions battle it out, and a beagle pilot takes flight. There's so much to choose from, so read on and see what's playing in September in this monumental town. Happy New Year to all my fellow Jewish lovers of the theatre!

Iron Crow Theatre Company will open its 2010-2011 season with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, September 4th-25th.

Their story unfolds this month at the Mobtown Theater with The Little Dog Laughed, a hilarious commentary on ambition, deceit and the price of dreams. The Little Dog Laughed is the first production for the newly formed Teatro101.