Baltimore Center Stage

under the leadership of playwright, actor, and director kwame kwei-armah obe (artistic director) and national arts leader stephen richard (managing director), center stage is an artistically driven institution committed to engaging, entertaining, and enriching audiences through joyous and bold performance. hailed by the wall street journal as “a model of what regional theater can and should be,” center stage has, for more than 50 years, dedicated itself to exploring new works and bringing classics to life. this rich history is marked by critically acclaimed new works that have shaped the american theater; from the tony award-winning the triumph of love to world premieres such as miss evers’ boys by david feldshuh and on the verge by eric overmyer. in 2013, center stage’s unprecedented presentation of the tony award-winning clybourne park in repertory with the world premiere of kwei-armah’s beneatha’s place sparked dialogue, drew international media attention and became the subject of a