Performance Workshop Theatre is a non-profit professional theatre company and theatre arts training school which has produced outstanding entertainment and educational programming since 1976. We are founding members of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance, an organization which promotes and supports the performing arts in the Baltimore/Washington area.

OUR 2007-2008 SEASON:

Three Irish Plays
Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge
The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory
Purgatory by W.B. Yeats
directed by Joan and Sam McCready
February 15 - March 16, 2008

Three remarkable one-act plays by the three great Irish writers who formed the Abbey Theatre, have been chosen for this production. Rich in character and emotion, they demonstrate the genius of the Irish theatre with its emphasis on expressive, melodious language and lively talk.

Synge’s Riders to the Sea, portrays an elderly mother mourning the loss of her sons to the cruel sea off the barren coasts of the Aran Islands in the west of Ireland.

In The Rising of the Moon, by Lady Gregory, a charming rebel manages to escape the clutches of the law by his clever wit and imagination.

In Purgatory, which many consider Yeats’s finest play, a father, accompanied by his young son, returns to the house where he was born, hoping to lay to rest the ghost of his mother.

The three plays will feature performances by Sam and Joan McCready, with many of the young cast who were in last season’s sell-out production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel.

February 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29
March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16

Friday and Saturday evenings: 8:00 p.m.
Sunday afternoon matinees: 3:00 p.m.

$ 20. General Admission
$ 15. Student Admission

Oedipus
a new version of the Sophocles play by Ellen McLaughlin
directed by Marlyn G. Robinson
May 2nd - June 1st

A heroic King, unknowingly is the cause of his people's suffering, and whose unrelenting search for the truth reveals his own tragic corruption - the classic Greek myth of Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his mother.

This new version, excitingly reinterpreted by Ellen McLaughlin, has a striking resonance for today's audience.

The role of Oedipus will be performed by Marc Horwitz, who starred in the title role of last season's award winning production of Faith Healer by Brian Friel , voted #1 in City Paper's Top Ten 2006 -The Year on Stage.

May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31
June 1

Friday and Saturday evenings: 8:00 p.m.
Sunday afternoon matinees: 3:00 p.m.

$ 20. General Admission
$ 15. Student Admission

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