Amadeus

September 13–October 12

Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer
Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah

In 18^th century Vienna, music is the currency of power. And Court Composer Antonio Salieri is the toast of the town. That is, until a young prodigy by the name of Mozart comes on the scene. Reeling from the realization of his own mediocrity in the face of true genius, Salieri swears vengeance on the God that gifted Mozart’s breathtaking talent. Swells of music and madness stir through Center Stage’s epic new revival of the Tony Award-winning drama that raises the question: how far would you go to secure your legacy?

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Cast

Stanton Nash*
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Natanya Washer
Katerina Cavalieri

Bruce Randolph Nelson*
Antonio Salieri

Yvonne Erickson*
Theresa Salieri

Kayla Ferguson*
Constanze

Kevin Orton*
Emperor Joseph II

Lucia Spina*
Venticelli

Jay Russell*
Venticelli

Steve Brady*
Count Orsini Rosenberg

Gannon McHale*
Count Von Strack

James Joseph O'Neil*
Baron Van Swieten

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus,Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Animal Crackers, Edgar Allan Poe, Galileo, Arms and the Man. Tour—National Players. Regional—Rep Stage: The Goat, Hysteria, The Violet Hour (Helen Hayes Award), The Dazzle (Helen Hayes Award), Irma Vep (Helen Hayes nom), Faith Healer (Helen Hayes nom); Everyman Theatre: Company Member, The Dresser, Red, You Can’t Take It with You, Private Lives, Shipwrecked! (Best Actor City Paper), I Am My Own Wife, The Pavilion (Best Actor City Paper); Folger Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, She Stoops to Conquer; Olney Theatre Center: Farragut North, The Underpants; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Company Member, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Dwight, Originated Role), Fuddy Meers (Helen Hayes nom); The Shakespeare Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew; Signature Theatre: Never the Sinner. Education—Towson University. Professional—Instructor at Howard Community College, Everyman Theatre, Stevenson University; Facilitation at McCormick Spice, Johns Hopkins University.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Young Playwrights Festival. Regional—Rep Stage: A Young Lady of Property (MD Theatre Guide Best Supporting Actress 2013, second place), The Guys; Studio Theatre: Guantanamo; Theater Virginia: The Heiress; American Century Theatre: One Touch of Venus; Mill Mountain Theatre: Seascapes; Barksdale Theatre: Three Tall Women; Theatre IV: Shadowlands, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road; Blueridge Theatre Festival: How He Lied To Her Husband; Firehouse Theatre Project: Speed The Plow; Blue Flamingo Theatre Co.: A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Laundry and Bourbon. Film/TV—Sally Pacholock, White Reindeer, Ladder 49, Mothman Prophecies, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Spirit Lost, Lassie, The Prince of Tides, VEEP, Hack, Homicide, American Gothic, Matlock. Education—American Academy of Dramatic Arts; VCU.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus. Broadway—Amadeus (1999 Revival). Regional—The Public Theater: Merry Wives of Windsor; Guthrie: Julius Caesar; Ahmanson: Amadeus; Cincinnati Playhouse: Pride & Prejudice, Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night, Smell of the Kill; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Saint Joan, Twelfth Night, Gross Indecency; Pioneer Theatre Co: Cyrano de Bergerac, Is He Dead; NY Classical: Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Tempest; Buffalo Studio Arena: Mud River Stone (Lynn Nottage, world premiere); Summerscape: Uncle Vanya (featuring Peter Dinklage), The Acting Company (4 Seasons). TV/Film—Law & Order, Darwin: The Series, One Take, Dakota. Professional—Narrates regularly for Recorded Books. Musically, everything from opening for Violent Femmes to original music for Twelfth Night. Leader of “Gothic Americana” band, The Maledictions. Full discography online (iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc).

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus. Broadway—Kinky Boots original cast, South Pacific, Legally Blonde, Les Miserables, …Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway—Silence! The Musical original cast; Fugitive Songs original cast. Tour—Legally Blonde. Regional—Kinky Boots original cast; Milwaukee Rep: Winter Wonderettes original cast; Barrington Stage: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick original cast; Long Wharf: Man of La Mancha; Human Race: Bat Boy: The Musical; Madison Rep: The Marvelous Wonderettes; Ravinia Festival: Sunday In The Park With George, Anyone Can Whistle (dir. Lonny Price; Drury Lane Oakbrook: Lucky Stiff; Drury Lane Water Tower Place:…Spelling Bee dir. James Lapine, The Full Monty. Film/TV—Law & Order: SVU, The Black Box. Education—North Central College.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus. Broadway—End of the Rainbow, The Play What I Wrote. Off Broadway—Our Town; Barrow Street: Around the World in 80 Days; Irish Rep: Normal Heart; Public. Tours—Wicked, Beauty & the Beast, Applause. International—Fully Committed, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; English Theatres of Vienna & Frankfurt. Regional—Guthrie: End of the Rainbow; Long Wharf: A Civil War Christmas; Arena Stage: Noises Off; Goodspeed: City of Angels; Repertory Theatre St. Louis: Gross Indecency, An Ideal Husband; Cincinnati Playhouse: Importance of Being Earnest, Mystery of Irma Vep; Actor’s Theatre Louisville: Natural Selection; Ordway: Anything Goes; North Shore: Tarzan; Bucks County: Meet Me in St. Louis; Utah Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Olney: Design for Living. Film—Morning Glory, In Lieu of Flowers, Ride, Trust Me. TV—Boardwalk Empire, Ugly Betty, Louie, Sopranos, Law & Order(s), Bored to Death. Training—Syracuse University, LAMDA.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus. Broadway—Inherit the Wind with Christopher Plummer. Off-Broadway—Soho Playhouse: Bill W. And Dr. Bob; The Mint: The Power of Darkness; Perry Street: A Dangerous Personality; Irish Arts: Poor Beast in the Rain. Tour/International—The Exonerated with Lynn Redgrave and Robin Williams; West Side Story, 2009 World Tour; A Christmas Carol, Germany. Regional—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley: The Great Pretender (premiere); Cincinnati Playhouse: King O’ the Moon; Rep Theatre St. Louis: 12 Angry Men; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hughie; Syracuse Stage: A Christmas Carol; Royal Alexandra (Toronto): Enigma Variations; The Wilma: Spin; Triad Stage: New Music: Better Days; Paper Mill Playhouse: The Diary of Anne Frank; Gulfshore Playhouse: Tartuffe; Shadowland: The Seafarer. TV/Film—Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Seinfeld, Spin City, Beverly Hills 90210.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus. Broadway—James Joyce’s The Dead (dir. Richard Nelson), The Sound of Music (dir. Susan Schulman). Off Broadway—Midtown Festival 2012: Final Analysis; Little Schubert Theater: Fame; Sullivan St. Playhouse: The Fantasticks, The Lamb’s Theater: The God Committee. National Tours—Of Mice and Men; My Fair Lady. International—Japan Tour: The Fantasticks. Recent Regional—Barter Theater: Tuesdays with Morrie, The Diary of Anne Frank, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Henry IV, Part 1; Long Wharf Theatre: Guys & Dolls, James Joyce’s The Dead. Other Regional—ACT San Francisco, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Repertory, Birmingham Theatre, The Citadel Theater, The Hartman Theater, Huntington Theater, Indiana Repertory, Seattle Repertory. Film—Lincoln (Steven Spielberg). Professional—Author of Stealth Boat: Fighting the Cold War in a Fast Attack Submarine (Naval Institute Press 2008).

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus, King Lear, She Stoops to Conquer (both dir. Irene Lewis). Broadway— Roundabout: Present Laughter with Victor Garber, directed by Nicholas Martin. Off Broadway—Epic Theatre Ensemble, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Theatre, and the 47^th St Theatre. Regional—Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, American Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Co., Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, American Stage Festival. Film/TV—Dovid Meyer, Deep Powder, The Bourne Legacy, Fair Game, Zodiac, The Knick, Person of Interest, Law & Order (all three), 24, Veronica Mars, Numb3rs, Charmed, Sex and the City. Education—MFA/USD, BFA/Adelphi U.

Ensemble

William Cooke, Christopher Dews, Cori Dioquino, Hillary Mazer, Joel Ottenheimer, Kedren Spencer, Sarah Olmsted Thomas, Ann Turiano, Frank Vince.

Creative Team

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE
Director

Tim Mackabee
Set Designer

David Burdick
Costume Designer

Michelle Habeck
Lighting Designer

Victoria Deiorio
Sound Designer

Paloma McGregor
Choreographer

Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is a playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster. At Baltimore Center Stage he has directed Jazz, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts, The Mountaintop, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, and Things of Dry Hours. Other directorial credits include One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (originally Marley) at Birmingham Repertory Theatre; One Night in Miami… at London’s Donmar Warehouse; Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and the world premiere of Detroit ’67 at The Public Theater in New York; Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain and Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew. His works as playwright include One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, Elmina’s Kitchen, Let There Be Love, A Bitter Herb, Statement of Regret, Seize the Day, and Beneatha’s Place, which debuted at Baltimore Center Stage in 2013 as part of The Raisin Cycle. Kwame served as Artistic Director at Baltimore Center Stage from 2011 to 2018, he is now the Artistic Director at the Young Vic in London. He has served on the boards of Theatre Communications Group, Steinberg Playwright Awards, The National Theatre, and The Tricycle Theatre, and as Artistic Director for the World Arts Festival in Senegal. He was named the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London, and was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, Amadeus. Broadway—The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End—The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway—MTC: Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century; Atlantic: Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our New Girl, The Penitent; Lincoln Center Theatre: Heathers The Musical, Luce; Vineyard: Gigantic; Public Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing. Regional—ACT San Francisco, Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Center Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, South Coast Repertory, Victory Gardens Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival (9 seasons.) Dance—Doug Varone & Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV—Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education—North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Next to Normal; Amadeus; Twelfth Night; dance of the holy ghosts; Animal Crackers; …Edgar Allan Poe; The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; A Skull in Connemara; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Working it Out; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; Hearts; Things of Dry Hours; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Elmina’s Kitchen; Picnic; a.m. Sunday; The Rainmaker; Blithe Spirit; and many others. Regional—Everyman Theatre: Sweat, Dancing at Lughnasa, Intimate Apparel, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Revolutionists, The Book of Joseph, Dot, Los Ostros, An Inspector Calls, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ruined, Ghosts, Blithe Spirit; Walnut Street/Totem Pole: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Moon Over Buffalo. Opera—Cincinnati: Don Giovanni; Boston Lyric: I Puritani; Tulsa: Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Fidelio. Dance—BAM: FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance; Dayton Contemporary Dance: Lyric Fire (world premiere, dir/choreographer Dianne McIntyre). Other—Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.

Baltimore Center Stage: Jazz, Marley, Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara, Let There Be Love, Things of Dry Hours, Elmina’s Kitchen. Broadway—Thoroughly Modern Millie (Slide Artist); The Boy from Oz, King Hedley, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II Associated & Assistant Lighting Designer). Off Broadway—Fifty Words, MCC Theatre. Regional—The Guthrie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman, Alliance Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, The Zach, Kansas City Repertory, Penumbra, Arizona Theatre Company, Writer’s Theatre, Lookingglass, and others. Opera—Austin Lyric Opera: Elixir of Love, The Masked Ball; Julie Taymor’s Grendel, New York (Associate Lighting Designer). Awards—NEATCG Career Development Grant for Design, The University of Texas Faculty Fine Arts Award. Professional—Michelle heads the lighting design program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, Working It Out. Off Broadway—Sheen Center: Nine Circles; St. Clement’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Active Theatre: Two Point Oh; Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater: Cassie’s Chimera; Steppenwolf at The Duke: The Bluest Eye; NYMTF: Arnie the Doughnut; NYC Fringe Festival at The Connelly: Ophelia. Regional—Oregon Shakespeare; The Goodman; Steppenwolf; Hartford Stage; Long Wharf Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Chautauqua Theater Company; Indiana Repertory; Milwaukee Repertory; and many other theaters in and around Chicago, NY, and LA. Awards—Nominated for 13 and winning seven Joseph Jefferson Awards, two After Dark Awards, and a SALT Award. Professional—Head of Sound Design for The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, and Co-Chair of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. victoria-sound-design.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Marley, Amadeus, A Civil War Christmas. Other recent choreography credits include Hamlet (The Public Mobile Unit), Building a Better Fishtrap (Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), Brownsville Song (LCT3), The House that Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory and Yale Repertory), A Winter’s Tale and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theatre), Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen), Children of Killers (Castillo Theater), Indomitable: James Brown (SummerStage), For a Barbarian Woman (Fordham University) and Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage). A Harlem-based artist, she co-founded Angela’s Pulse with her sister, director Patricia McGregor. She is currently developing a performance work to premiere on the Bronx River in Summer 2018. Paloma toured internationally for six years as a dancer with Urban Bush Women and has danced with Takoma Park-based Dance Exchange.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Reviews

“One of the most confident, natural, and thorough performances I’ve seen on a stage in this town.”— The Baltimore Sun

“A grand experience akin to 18th century Vienna.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“A magnificent, darkly amusing, historically rich, theatrical production: brilliant, lyrical, and charming—it is a monumental, multi-dimensional masterpiece, which is grandly memorable and immensely pleasurable to watch.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“This production under the direction of Mr. Kwei-Armah sparkles.”— Baltimore OUT Loud

“Sheer brilliance.”— TheatreBloom

“AS I FIND MYSELF SAYING ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME I TALK ABOUT A PLAY PUT ON BY CENTER STAGE, THE ACTING IS SUPERB.”— BROADWAYWORLD

“NASH MAKES AN IDEAL AMADEUS.”— BALTIMORE POST EXAMINER

“NELSON TACKLES THE… ROLE OF ANTONIO SALIERI WITH A PRESENCE THAT HAS RIGHTLY EARNED HIM RECOGNITION AS ONE OF THE AREA’S FINEST ACTORS.”— BALTIMORE POST EXAMINER

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09.19.14: The Baltimore Sun—Center Stage offers stylish revival of 'Amadeus'
09.19.14: TheatreBloom—Amadeus at Center Stage
09.20.14: Baltimore Post Examiner—Amadeus: Center Stage opens season on a high note
09.22.14: DC Metro Theater Arts—Amadeus at Centerstage
09.29.14: BroadwayWorld—AMADEUS at Center Stage Hits the Right Notes

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