Eric Berryman News

This year's final full-length offering, "Steel Hammer" from the world-renowned SITI Company and legendary director Anne Bogart, compares a man to his myth and explores all the dimensions one person's story can develop.

Everyman Theatre continues its season of award-winning Baltimore Premieres with the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, now playing through May 19th, 2013. The production will feature Everyman Theatre Resident Company Eric Berryman and Everyman veteran KenYatta Rogers in the two-person cast. Well-known and respected DC director, Jennifer L. Nelson, will helm the production. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

On the heels of successful presentations of Gem of the Ocean, A Raisin in the Sun and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the Guthrie Theater welcomes back the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre Company for The Amen Corner-an uplifting and masterful drama written by celebrated playwright and novelist James Baldwin and directed by Penumbra Founder and Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.

This is a RAISIN to remember.

Dominic Taylor's exhumation of Nat King Cole in I WISH YOU LOVE at Hartford Stage is neither unforgettable nor unforgivable.

The most awarded African-American playwright in history, August Wilson's crowning achievement was his ten-play cycle, August Wilson's 20th Century in which each work is set in a different decade in the 1900's. The cycle, often titled the Pittsburgh Cycle because nine of the ten plays are set in Pittsburgh, chronicles the African-American experience in the 20th century. August Wilson's 20th Century will be presented in a series of staged readings at the Kennedy Center.

WHO: Baltimore Shakespeare Festival WHAT: Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well WHEN: Through April 22. Fri & Sat at 8PM, Sun at 5PM, Thurs 4/12 at 8PM, 4/5, 18 & 19 at 10AM WHERE: St. Mary's in Hampden HOW MUCH: $25 general, $20 seniors, students, teachers and artists. April 12 all tickets $15.

WHO: Spotlighters presents a Baltimore Playwrights Festival Entry WHAT: Hope's Arbor by Rich Espey WHEN: Friday and Saturday at 8PM, August 25 & 26 HOW MUCH: $15/$12 discounts for Seniors, Students and BTA Members.$10.00 discount for BWW readers!

In this issue: 2 Best Bets! LOTS of Spotlighters News! Baltimore Playwrights Festival News! Toby’s News!