Iron Crow Theatre Announces 2017-18 'Season of Identity'

Iron Crow Theatre announced the 17/18 Season of Identity in front of a crowd of almost 100 patrons, actors, designers and supporters at the company's 2nd Annual Season Announcement Event, held on Sunday, March 19, 2017 in the heart of Baltimore's Arts and Entertainment district at The Motor House located at 120 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201.

This free event featured a review of the theatre's successes to date celebrating the theatre's 32 awards and nominations received thus far, over $17,000 paid to professional and local artists to date, and an overly impressive audience satisfaction rate of 93%.

The event culminated in a preview of the theatre's next hit season complete with a teaser performance from the season's opening musical, The Cradle Will Rock. The dates for the company's Annual Season Auditions were announced for April 25 - April 26, 2017 to be held at Stillpointe Theatre. Actors can sign up online now at www.ironcrowtheatre.org/audition.

"The 17/18 'Season of Identity' explores who we are as individuals, as people, and as a nation, revealing the possibility, fluidity and oppression we all encounter in the construction of 'who I am' and 'who we are," said Sean Elias, Iron Crow Theatre's Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.

In sequential order, the 17/18 Season of Identity consists of the following titles: The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein, The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien, The Goodies: a new devised work, Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill, Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally, and The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman. Additionally, the company announced the launch of their first educational tour titled, Queer?!, aimed at providing educational institutions the language necessary to engage in conversations around student sexuality and gender expression. The company also revealed a special one night only fundraiser featuring prominent members of the queer theatre genre, including Ms. Holly Hughes.

"This season is in direct response to our current socio-political environment. It's an invitation to not only explore gender, sexual, racial and religious identity, but to critique it, to understand it, change it, play with it, hide it, or reveal it," said Elias.

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Iron Crow Theatre is a professional not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization and Baltimore's only queer theatre. Iron Crow Theatre produces queer theater for a queer city, celebrating the renegade and the unorthodox in all of us.

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