The Hot L Baltimore
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Mar 24, 2011
Closed May 29, 2011
Visit the The Hot L Baltimore website:
http://www.steppenwolf.org/boxoffice/productions/index.aspx?id=506
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Hotel Baltimore used to be the swankiest place in town - now it has a date with the wrecking ball. Eviction notices just went out to its residents, who live on the fringes of society and call the seedy hotel home. This acclaimed play from the author of Balm in Gilead is filled with everyday humanity - unexpectedly intimate and moving. Helmed by visionary director Tina Landau, The Hot L Baltimore reveals the private lives of an unconventional community about to be turned inside out.
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Tina Landau's production of Lanford Wilson's 1973 play
The Hot L Baltimore, now being presented by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will best be remembered -- for better and worse -- for her strong directorial choices, which substantially alter and sometimes overwhelm the landmark play.
To begin with, half of the cast are African-Americans, including those playing the Hotel Baltimore's staff: night clerk Bill Lewis (Jon Michael Hill), day clerk Mr. Katz (James Vincent Meredith), and manager Mrs. Oxenham (TaRon Patton). If Landau is making a statement through this non-traditional casting, especially given the play's 1973 time period when Civil Rights battles and Vietnam both were being fo[...]