BALTIMORE, MD — Along with its state of emergency due to civil unrest, the city of Baltimore instituted a mandatory curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from April 26 to May 5, and that’s led to numerous canceled live entertainment events. Some theatrical productions are still being staged, albeit with earlier curtain times.
Although the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, located near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, opted to cancel evening performances of Romeo and Juliet that had been planned for April 30, May 1 and May 2, the matinee show set for Sunday May 3 will go on as planned, and evening shows the following week have not been canceled.
Center Stage, meanwhile, canceled a free public reading of Belleville that had been set for April 27. Another Amy Herzog play, 4000 Miles, will be staged on its scheduled evenings, but with earlier showtime — 7 p.m. — so attendees have enough time to comply with the curfew after the show.
Other productions with new 7 p.m start times include Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Everyman Theatre and [re]wired by The Collective at Baltimore Theatre Project.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was also affected; its performance of Pokemon: Symphonic Evolutions scheduled for Friday, May 1 at 8 p.m. was postponed to July 1 at 7:30pm. The symphony also responded by offering a free concert outside Baltimore’s Meyerhof Hall at noon on April 29.
