[Un]told Stories Continues at Performance Workshop Theatre Through 3/27

Performance Workshop Theatre celebrates the opening of its new resident theatre in Hamilton with [Un]told Stories - playwrights off-stage, an exciting series of extraordinary stories written by six of the world's outstanding playwrights.

Performed by award-winning actor Marc Horwitz, nine fascinating stories are featured in the series: The Adventures Of The Black Girl In Her Search For God, by George Bernard Shaw; Portrait Of A Girl In Glass, by Tennessee Williams; In Silence, by Luigi Pirandello; Stories Of Red Hanrahan, by W.B. Yeats; The Canterville Ghost, by Oscar Wilde; The Inventor And The Actress, A Visitor In The Piano Warehouse, and Dear Baby, by William Saroyan; and Baltimore's own Edgar Allan Poe, with, The Tell-Tale Heart. [Un]told Stories - playwrights off-stage, opens the company's 2011-2012 Season on Friday, March 4th . The stories continue in rotation through March 27th. The production is directed by Performance Workshop Theatre's Co-Artistic Director, Marlyn G. Robinson.

Mr. Horwitz was awarded an Acting Fellowship from the British Theatre Association to study in London with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, and The Old Vic. His many performances with the company include the recent Shakespearean One-Man Show, Ages of Man, for which he was awarded "Best Actor" 2009 from City Paper in their Best of Baltimore Edition, the fourth time he has received that honor. He is Performance Workshop Theatre's Co-Artistic Director. His readings of stories, poems, and letters of Edgar Allan Poe are on the Maryland Public Television website, Knowing Poe.

[Un]told Stories - playwrights off-stage, continues through March 27th. "Pay-what-you-can" Thursdays at 7:30 p.m, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.* Tickets are $20 general admission and $12 for students. A three show subscription series is available for $50. *Special Sunday Evening Performance tickets are priced at: $15 general admission and $7.50 for students and subscribers.

All stories are performed in rotation. Arrive 30 minutes before curtain and enjoy a pre-show concert of live music. For information on the time and date of each story, please visit their website http://www.performanceworkshoptheatre.org Tickets may be purchased by calling the theater at 410-659-7830 or online.

Performance Workshop Theatre is now located in Hamilton, in the 1928 Provident Bank Building at 5426 Harford Road, Baltimore MD 21214.

 

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