Baltimore Center Stage’s 2024/2025 season will feature six plays, including a world premiere, a Langston Hughes play with original music, a Jane Austen classic, a stage adaptation of a beloved film, and more.
It will be the first season helmed by Tony Award-nominated Stevie Walker-Webb as Artistic Director. Season memberships go on sale Thursday, May 16, and individual ticket sales go on sale over the summer.
“In my debut season as Artistic Director, we’re raising the curtain on a spectacular celebration of new plays.,” Walker-Webb said in a statement. “Baltimore has always been a nurturing haven for artists, and this year, BCS proudly hosts not one, but two world premieres—a testament to our city’s artistic vitality. With one play crafted by the talented Tony Award nominee and my cherished friend, Jordan E. Cooper, and the other by the razor-sharp writer and nine-time Emmy winner, Matthew Weiner, our stage is set for greatness.”
The BCS 2024/25 Season will include:
OH HAPPY DAY! (World Premiere)
In association with The Public Theater
September 19, 2024 – October 13, 2024
Opening Night: September 27, 2024
In this reimagining of Noah’s Ark, an impending flood is the least of a Mississippi family’s worries as an estranged son crashes a family barbeque and they face revelations of family secrets.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
In Association with Arkansas Repertory Theatre
October 17, 2024 – November 10, 2024
Opening Night: October 19, 2024
In this adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of the same name, the game of love gets a bold and playful framing, with Lizzy Bennett and her sisters demonstrating a progressive view about the expectations women face that jarringly parallel those of today.
BCS Presents ARTSCENTRIC’S Production of
BLACK NATIVITY
November 30, 2024 – December 22 – 2024
Opening Night: December 7, 2024
ArtsCentric returns with this joyous retelling of how Jesus came into this world, seen through an African American lens told through the powerful words of Langston Hughes. Original music by composer and musical director of the play, Cedric D. Lyles, is a fusion of blues, soul, jazz, spirituals, and dance.
EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED (East Coast Premiere)
February 13, 2025 – March 9, 2025
Opening Night: February 21, 2025
Somewhere between Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and the realities of Jewish history that created Shylock’s story is this tale of a couple in love. But to be together, they must escape her home and culture in the Venitian ghetto.
AKEELAH AND THE BEE
March 20, 2025 – April 13, 2025
Opening Night: March 28, 2025
Based on the original screen play by Doug Atchison and beloved movie of the same name, a little girl named Akeelah with a passion for words finds her way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee with the support and love of her Chicago neighborhood and family.
JOHN WILKES BOOTH: ONE NIGHT ONLY! (World Premiere)
May 15, 2025 – June 15, 2025
Opening Night: May 23, 2025
The man known primarily for his murdering President Abraham Lincoln gets a closer look in this play about one of the most infamous Marylanders in American history. Second-rate actor, first-rate drunk, womanizer extreme, white supremacist, John Wilkes Booth is buried in an unmarked grave less than a mile from Baltimore Center Stage, but audiences can see his story live for a month next spring.
Memberships for the 2024/25 season are available now by clicking this link. They can also be purchased by calling 410-332-0033 or visiting the BCS Box Office during business hours, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday.
