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About Gavin

WBJC listeners and Baltimore audiences may know Gavin from his nearly 20 years as dramaturg and associate artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage (in which capacity he was a frequent guest on WBJC to talk about programs and events), or from regular appearances alongside Jonathan Palevsky at the Charles Theater for Cinema Sundays discussions. A director, dramaturg, producer, translator, and adaptor who also teaches on the theater faculty at Towson University, Gavin is a recent addition to the WBJC team and delighted to play this new role.

Jun. 09 2026

A new twist on old history from Round House Theatre

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Interviews, Staff Blogs | Comments Off on A new twist on old history from Round House Theatre

Round House Theatre wraps up its season with a timely, resonant selection timed to coincide with–and to comment on–the national observations of America’s 250th. Penned by the reliably thoughtful, and thought-provoking, Suzan-Lori Parks, the play, Sally & Tom, takes a hard and even uncomfortable look at the truth behind the myths, the reality behind the […]

Jun. 09 2026

Iron Crow’s brings THE VIEW UPSTAIRS to Theatre Project

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With The View Upstairs, playing at Baltimore Theatre Project through June 14th in a regional-premiere production by Iron Crow Theatre, Max Vernon (music, book, lyrics) has created a time- and genre-bending new musical that both remembers a forgotten past and forges forward into a hopeful future, that both mourns terrible loss and celebrates irrepressible resilience. […]

Jun. 01 2026

LUMINOUS DEAD comes to life onstage at The Voxel

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An adaptation and staging of Caitlin Starling’s debut sci-fi/horror novel, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Luminous Dead, gets its world premiere at The Voxel in Baltimore June 2-7. It’s the brainchild of the creative imagination of Andrew Hungerford–who adapts and helms–along with Distance over Time Theater, and the result of one of the Voxel’s creative […]

May. 27 2026

Celebrating America’s birthday with century-plus of Broadway greats

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On Sunday, June 28th, the Center for the Arts at Towson University will conclude its Summer at the Center Arts Festival performances with a remarkable look back at more than a century of musical theater greatness, celebrating not only the extraordinary creators–composers, lyricists, performers, producers, directors, and others–who helped to conceive and create this truly […]

May. 19 2026

Aristophanes gets a new look at Glass Canon

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From May 23 through June 7, Glass Canon Theatre Company is producing a new take on an old classic, with a dynamic new adaptation of Lysistrata, the classic comedy by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Directed by Emma Jaster and adapted by Jaster and Gil Mitchell (with assistance from Stephen Halliwell, Sarah Ruden, and others) this […]

May. 11 2026

Ingenious meets Indigenous at Creative Alliance in performances & exhibition

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On Saturday and Sunday, May 16th and 17th, Creative Alliance will host to extraordinary live performances as part of an ongoing exhibition in their Rothschild Gallery, “When the Butterflies Would Visit,” conceived and curated by Tavia La Follette and running through June 13th. The live components are Panama Jam, created and performed by JAM, and […]

May. 11 2026

Strand Theater wraps up season with a launch

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The 18th season of Strand Theater Co. in Baltimore finishes with a bang, or at least a Bounce–the world premiere of a new play by Somnia Mari Feral. The play follows a young single mother who returns to her childhood church after a stay in a mental health facility. Seeking stability, she enters a marriage with […]

May. 06 2026

Austen’s EMMA in fine fettle at Everyman

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E.M. Forester, Edith Wharton, Patricia Highsmith: these and other noteworthy social satirists have each enjoyed their flurries of renewed interest and adaptation onto stage and screen. But for consistency and longevity of both fervent fandom and successful renewal, few if any can rival the matchless Jane Austen. Maybe only Dickens and Shakespeare, in the English-speaking […]

May. 04 2026

Song of Sakuntula echoes anew with IN Series

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With a story drawn from one of India’s most famous dramas, Kalidasa’s 5th century play Sakuntala–itself a dramatic retelling of a tale from the first book of Mahabharata–this new opera by IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson pairs Western Baroque with Indian classical instruments to create an original “dance-opera” exploring themes of love, loss, and […]

May. 04 2026

Enoch Arden gets new life at Theatre Project

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May 15-17 brings the world premiere of Enoch Arden at Baltimore Theatre Project, with an original transcription for string trio by Molly von Gutzeit from a Strauss original with text from Tennyson, spoken in this instance by WBJC’s own Judith Krummeck. Alfred, Lord Tennyson published the narrative poem Enoch Arden in 1864 during his tenure […]

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