THE 2025 SEASON OF TRANSGRESSION
This year’s Season of Transgression was a defining milestone for Iron Crow Theatre. We opened with An Act of God, which quickly became the best-selling play in our company’s history. We then made a triumphant, much-anticipated return to the M&T Bank Exchange with a critically acclaimed, wildly celebrated production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, reaffirming our place on one of Baltimore’s most iconic stages. Next came the Baltimore premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, a daring and deeply human exploration of desire, polyamory, and modern connection. We closed the season with a joy-fueled, immersive The Rocky Horror Show: Pride Edition, transforming the experience into a water and glitter-soaked celebration of queer liberation and unapologetic self-expression. With multiple records shattered, Iron Crow Theatre proved once again that we are Baltimore’s fastest-growing theatre—and one of its most vital.
AN ACT OF GOD
HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH
HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: PRIDE EDITION!
THE 2024 SEASON OF THE UNORTHODOX
This season made history in every way imaginable breaking every record previously set! From smashing box office expectations to receiving wild critical acclaim, to producing one of the first productions of a new queer musical in the United States, to producing a boldly reimagined, sold-out, and award-winning production of RENT and then having the productions run extending and then transfer to the new M&T Bank Exchange at the France Merrick Performing Arts Center home of the historic Hippodrome Theatre. This transfer marked the first time a non-union production transferred to a union house in Baltimore City and earned Iron Crow Theatre the distinct honor of being the first theatre to perform on the M&T Bank Exchange stage.
THE 22/23 SEASON OF DEFIANCE
This season marked our most successful to date. Opening in response to the fall of Roe v. Wade was Robert O'Hara's timely satire, Mankind — a brutal, dark comedy where women have gone extinct, abortion is illegal, everyone's gay, and Jason gets pregnant. Responding to Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay Law" and produced in partnership with the original Broadway playwright James Magruder, the Baltimore premiere of Head Over Heels followed with a defiant celebration of love and gender identity set to the songs of the legendary rock band The Go-Go’s. Next, we were one of the first to produce Madeleine George's Hurricane Diane. In this piece, The Real Housewives meets HGTV with a side of "lesbian-pulp-Greek-tragedy" in a commentary on climate change. The season closed with Baltimore's favorite live musical tradition, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, this time in a brand-new, raucous, celebratory Pride edition!
MANKIND
HEAD OVER HEELS
HURRICANE DIANE
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - PRIDE EDITION!
THE 19/20 SEASON OF THE RENEGADE
This season marked the theatre’s 10 year anniversary! For a decade, Iron Crow Theatre has remained solely committed to producing theatrical work dedicated to the exploration and celebration of the queer experience. While the 19/20 Season of the Renegade celebrates Iron Crow Theatre’s first decade, it also ushers in its next, solidifying Iron Crow Theatre’s commitment to telling queer stories that celebrate the renegade and unorthodox in all of us.
COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES
BARE
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - VALENTINE’S EDITION!
THE 18/19 SEASON OF becoming
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - WINTER REMIX!
THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX
A NEW BRAIN
THE 17/18 SEASON OF IDENTITY
THE CRADLE WILL ROCK
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2017)
THE GOODIES
CLOUD 9
THE 2025/2026 SEASON OF SURVIVAL
This year’s Season of Survival marked another extraordinary chapter for Iron Crow Theatre. We opened with Next to Normal, returning to the M&T Bank Exchange with a raw, immersive production that confronted mental illness, grief, and the complicated ways families fight to hold onto one another. We followed with the regional premiere of The View Upstairs, transforming Baltimore Theatre Project into a fully immersive queer bar and bringing audiences face-to-face with a story of community, memory, loss, and resilience. Alongside these productions, we continued expanding the ways audiences gather with us through special events, readings, and the launch of Queer Thanksgiving, creating space not only for performance, but for connection.
NEXT TO NORMAL
THE VIEW UPSTAIRS
THE 16/17 SEASON OF DARK PLAY
This season, the first under the artistic direction of Sean Elias and the largest season in the theatre’s history, explored through a multitude of genres and theatrical mediums the dark game play that we all partake in, either willingly or forcefully, for pleasure or survival, within the modern American experience. From the infectious score of Andrew Lippa, to the poignant realism of A. Rey Pamatmat, the harrowing poetry of Suzan Lori-Parks, to the surrealist Madeline George, and the explosive, irreverent comedy of Robert O'Hara, this season aimed to highlight the renegade and unorthodox — in all of us.
THE WILD PARTY
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2016)
THE ZERO HOUR
FUCKING A
EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS & HIT THEM
BOOTYCANDY