The 22/23 Season of Defiance

The Season of Defiance opens in response to the fall of Roe v. Wade, with Robert O’Hara’s timely satire Mankind, directed by Iron Crow Theatre Resident Artist Ann Turiano. Mankind is a brutal dark comedy set in an uncannily familiar future where women have gone extinct from years of mistreatment, abortion is illegal, everyone’s gay, and Jason gets pregnant. Responding to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Law” and the significant rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment across the nation, Broadway’s Head Over Heels follows with a defiant celebration of love and gender identity set to the songs of the legendary rock band, The Go-Go’s. Next, we’re proud to be one of the first organizations producing Pulitzer-Prize finalist Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane, directed by Resident Artist Natka Bianchini. In this piece, The Real Housewives meets HGTV with a side of “lesbian-pulp-Greek-tragedy” in a brand-new commentary on climate change. The season closes with Baltimore’s favorite live musical tradition, our annual production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, this time in a brand-new raucous celebratory Pride edition!