Center Stage

A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left.  Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other.  We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hospitals.

Many of us may think of post-traumatic stress disorder as happening to soldiers, or survivors of sexual assault. But, a new study from Johns Hopkins finds that symptoms also occur among patients in Intensive Care Units. We talk about how it can be prevented with the study's leader, psychiatrist Joseph Bienvenu.

Then, the play “Mud Blue Sky” has its world premiere at Center Stage tomorrow. Tom Hall talks with the playwright Marisa Wegrzyn and director Susanna Gellert.

In four weeks, Maryland voters will decide whether some undocumented immigrants should receive in-state tuition rates for higher education. A new report out of University of Maryland-Baltimore County examines what economic impact the so-called Dream Act would have if voters approve it.  We talk with the head researchers.

Then, Nathan talks with Baltimore Sun technology reporter and blogger Gus Sentementes about the month in tech news.

And, J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Center Stage’s production of Arthur Miller’s “An Enemy of the People.”

To celebrate Center Stage's 50th anniversary, artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah undertook an ambitious project to open a dialogue about the theater and how it fits into our local and national culture.

Maryland is one of just four states that deny damage awards if you are at all at fault in an accident. We’ll talk to a law professor and a reporter about why Maryland’s highest court may soon change that.

Then, during the Iran hostage crisis, the CIA cooked up a scheme to extract several American diplomats. It’s the subject of the new Ben Affleck movie "Argo." The spy who organized the plot has retired to western Maryland; he’ll tell us how it went down.

And J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Arena Players' performance of Smokey Joe's Café.

Kwame Kwei-Armah took over the reins of Baltimore’s Center Stage in July 2011.

Kwame Kwei-Armah on Center Stage's "My America" project.

Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck's picks for the must-see plays and musicals of the coming year.

Kwame Kwei-Armah from Center Stage on their upcoming season of plays.