Performed Dec 2022 and 2023
Written by Dan Rodricks
Directed by Will Schwarz
Original music by Mat Lane
A One-Man Play… with a Cast of Seven
You’ll Laugh. You’ll Cry. You’ll Sigh.
Longtime journalist Dan Rodricks tells stories from his more than four decades as an award-winning Baltimore Sun columnist and radio and television host.
In this theatrical memoir, Rodricks brings to life from the wings some of the many people he has encountered and described in more than 6,000 columns for Baltimore’s daily newspaper since 1979 — a woman who married into a Baltimore crime family, the political boss of bosses, soldiers who served in World War II, a former drug dealer trying to build a new life after prison, a woman mourning her son, criminals who were “guilty but mostly stupid,” a model train collector who made a guy cry.
Performed Feb 2024
Written by Dan Rodricks
Directed by Dan Rodricks, Vanessa Eskridge and Thomas “Toby” Hessenauer
Original music by Mat Lane
A play about the courts, trials and criminal justice.
Dan Rodricks is back on stage with his second play featuring more of his one-of-a-kind stories about Baltimore. As a columnist with the Baltimore Sun for 45 years, he has observed and chronicled hundreds of trials and courtroom scenes. Out of this rich source of stories that describe the human condition, and life, in Baltimore, Rodricks brings to seven stories to life on stage, ranging from the tragic and touching to inspiring and comic.
“Dan’s play was one of the best 90 minutes of live theater I’ve experienced in recent years. Not just because I’ve known Dan’s work and the man himself for many years. It was very funny and sad about Baltimore, lovingly embracing that accent – you have no idea, hon – and the city it represents.”
— Len Lazarick, Maryland Reporter