Baltimore Center Stage has announced the lineup of productions for its 2025-2026 season, the theatre's second curated by Artistic Director Stevie Walker-Webb.
The season will kick off with The Peculiar Patriot, written by and starring Liza Jessie Peterson. Talvin Wilks will direct the production, which runs October 15-November 9. Inspired by her decades-long work with prison populations, Peterson鈥檚 one-person show unpacks the human impact of mass incarceration in America.
The world premiere of Nygel D. Robinson's Santa Claus Is Comin': A Motown Christmas Revue will follow, running November 26-January 4, 2026. Directed and choreographed jointly by Ken-Matt Martin and Victor Musoni, the show features classic holiday favorites reimagined with the sound of Motown legends, from Smokey Robinson to The Supremes.
Next in the season will be the world premiere of Emmy winner Lena Waithe's Trinity, with Walker-Webb directing. Performances are scheduled for February 12-March 8. In Trinity, three women in a single room slip between fantasy and reality, acting out the moments they鈥檙e too afraid to live in real life.
A stage adaptation of Louis Sachar's beloved book Holes will follow, running April 16-May 10. Johanna Gruenhut is set to direct. The story follows teenager Stanley Yelnats, who is wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers and sent to the mysterious Camp Green Lake.
From June 13-July 5, BCS will stage nicHi douglas' (pray), with music by S T A R R Busby and JJJJJerome Ellis. Douglas will direct and choreograph the work, which channels the energy and vitality of a Sunday Baptist Church service to celebrate and confront the complexity of spiritual inheritance.
The season will also feature public presentation of new works in development. Subscribers will be able to purchase tickets to the first workshop production in this series, Karen Li's Canton Waterfront, as an add-on. A story of immigrant life in Baltimore and the city鈥檚 trade connection with China going back hundreds of years, Canton Waterfront was developed in Lab410, BCS鈥� local playwright鈥檚 residency.
鈥淭his season is a love letter to Baltimore and a call to audiences everywhere who believe
theatre should move the soul, stir the conscience, and lift the spirit,鈥� Walker-Webb said in a statement. 鈥淓very production deepens our commitment to joyful storytelling, radical hospitality, and
community-rooted artmaking. And trust鈥攖here鈥檚 truly something for everyone: two plays with
music and dance, a beloved blockbuster for families and kids of all ages, and a high-octane
world premiere that鈥檚 two parts romance, one part sci-fi, and all heart.鈥�
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