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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.

Apr. 29 2026

All of Austen in one bite at Manor Mill Playhouse

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on All of Austen in one bite at Manor Mill Playhouse

Wildly popular with audiences from its very first, immediately sold-out run in Philadelphia in 2019, The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged has gone on to become a favorite staple of regional theaters of all sizes and shapes across America, delighting audiences everywhere. Now that wave of enjoyment washes up at Manor Mill Playhouse for […]

Apr. 24 2026

Story Fest 26 puts community out front

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Story Fest 26 puts community out front

With its third-annual festival landing at Theatre Project May 1-3, Baltimore Story Fest’s 2026 incarnation offers a new twist on their usual routine. Rather than simply showcase the finished work of accomplished local storytellers, Creative Director Phill Branch has decided to open up the process and the results directly to the community at large. The […]

Apr. 20 2026

Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure

When is a revival also a premiere? When the piece in question is a landmark classic of the Romantic ballet repertoire that has rarely been seen on European or American stages in more than a century. Such is the case with Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s current production of La Esmeralda, an action-packed but also sweetly […]

Apr. 20 2026

Beloved novel takes center stage

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Beloved novel takes center stage

Louis Sachar’s stage adaptation of his own crowd-pleasing, critically celebrated young adult novel Holes digs in at Baltimore Center Stage through May 10th, in a production directed by Baltimore-area director Johanna Gruenhut and featuring several locally based cast members. Holes follows a diverse band of misfit youngsters thrown together willy-nilly under the punishing desert sun and […]

Apr. 06 2026

Ufot Family Cycle continues at Strand Theater Co.

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Ufot Family Cycle continues at Strand Theater Co.

Her Portmanteau by Mfoniso Udofia — the fourth installment in the nine-play Ufot Family Cycle  – follows a Nigerian matriarch, Abasiama, and her two daughters as they reunite after years of separation. Set in a Harlem apartment, the play explores the tensions between Nigerian traditions and American realities (not to mention some quintessential mother-daughter dynamics), […]

Apr. 06 2026

IN Series brings Passion to Theatre Project

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on IN Series brings Passion to Theatre Project

IN Series returns to Baltimore Theatre Project April 10-12 with the final production of their spring Passion Plays Festival, For Women Serving Time. A librettist–Persian-American poet and scholar Fatemeh Keshavarz–and a composer–pianist and music director Adrienne Torf–have joined forces with director Timothy Nelson, Artistic Director of In Series, to devise an original piece of opera-theater, […]

Apr. 01 2026

Mosaic Theater celebrates crusading congressman with Young John Lewis

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Mosaic Theater celebrates crusading congressman with Young John Lewis

A new musical from Mosaic Theater Company takes the stage at Atlas Performing Arts Center in DC through May 3rd, in a hip-hop-informed exploration of the formative years of the firebrand civil rights activist who would become iconic Congressman John L. Lewis. The production of Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest features music by Grammy-nominated and […]

Mar. 18 2026

LOST VIRGINITY tour comes to Best Medicine Rep

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on LOST VIRGINITY tour comes to Best Medicine Rep

Playing through March 29th at The Writers’ Center in Bethesda is Best Medicine Rep’s area premiere of The Lost Virginity Tour by Cricket Daniel, in a production directed by the company’s artistic director, John Morogiello. John joined me by phone to talk about the saga of chasing the play’s rights for production and why he […]

Mar. 09 2026

EUREKA DAY stirs up comic chaos at Theater J

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on EUREKA DAY stirs up comic chaos at Theater J

Jonathan Spector reaped both critical acclaim and audience adulation with the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of his preternaturally prescient comic drama, Eureka Day. Now the widely produced play, its finger firmly on the pulse of the present, comes “home” to Washington’s Theater J, where the playwright was for some time an intern and where a […]

Mar. 04 2026

Alex & Olmsted get mechanical at Theatre Project

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Alex & Olmsted get mechanical at Theatre Project

The puppeteering and filmmaking duo known as Alex & Olmsted, recipients of international recognition and a solid handful of Jim Henson Foundation grants for past work, return to Baltimore Theatre Project with their latest creation, intriguingly titled Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms. The new piece–which blends a variety of puppets with an array of […]

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