Fells Point Corner Theatre Set For Ambitious 2025-2026 Season
Fells Point Corner Theatre has mapped out a bold 2025-2026 season that underscores the Baltimore company's long-standing commitment to artist-led, community-rooted work. For more than three decades, FPCT has produced ambitious, relevant theatre powered by local talent, and for the past five years the company's titles have been proposed and championed by its own community of artists. Even in a moment when sustaining a theatre-particularly one run by an all-volunteer staff-has never been harder, FPCT is leaning into the idea that the art form remains essential, curating a lineup built on courage, laughter, and adventure.
The season opens November 7-30, 2025 with Alice Childress's "Trouble in Mind," a razor-sharp backstage drama in which a successful Black actress joins the company of an anti-lynching play by a white playwright headed for Broadway. As rehearsals unfold, theatrical convention clashes with racial politics, and Childress's piercing, surprisingly funny script interrogates who gets to tell which stories-and at what cost. First a success Off-Broadway in 1955, the play was effectively buried when Childress refused to soften her vision; it finally reached Broadway in 2021, earning four Tony Award nominations. FPCT's staging brings that history into present focus for contemporary audiences.
Winter turns kinetic with Clare Barron's "Dance Nation," running February 13-March 8, 2026. Set inside the ferocious world of a pre-teen competitive dance team with eyes on Nationals in Tampa Bay, Barron's form-bending play captures the high-stakes volatility of early adolescence with both hilarity and heartbreak. As The New York Times put it, Barron is "insanely talented," and the play evokes "the passionate ambivalence of early adolescence with such being-there sharpness and poignancy that you're not sure whether to cringe, cry or roar with happiness." A 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, "Dance Nation" promises an exhilarating, unflinching look at ambition, identity, and the bodies that carry both.
Spring brings a fan-favorite duo back to Baltimore with "Miss Holmes Returns," April 24-May 17, 2026. The sequel to FPCT's 2024 Baltimore premiere of "Miss Holmes" reunites Miss Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Dorothy Watson when a nurse and activist on the run seeks their help. Framed as a family-friendly adventure, the production is directed by FPCT Managing Director Brad Norris and welcomes back original cast members Sharon Maguire and Emma Grace Dunbar, with the creative team building an even more expansive world for the intrepid heroines to explore.
For Theatre In DC readers who often make the short trip up to Baltimore, FPCT's season offers three distinct reasons to do it again: a reclaimed American classic with timely bite, a kinetic coming-of-age juggernaut, and a spirited detective romp with returning favorites. Dates are subject to change; check Fells Point Corner Theatre for the latest ticket and schedule information.