Everyman Theatre is an Equity theatre with a professional repertory company of artists from the Baltimore/Washington area, dedicated to presenting quality theatre that is accessible and affordable to everyone.
| 1990 |
Everyman Theatre is founded to present quality professional theatre at affordable prices to the people of Baltimore. Everyman's debut production, The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt, opens at St. John's Church to rave reviews. |
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| 1991-1993 |
Everyman Theatre performs at venues throughout Baltimore, forging partnerships with the Vagabond Players, Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Theatre Project. |
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| July 1994 |
Everyman Theatre leases building at 1727 N. Charles Street as a permanent home. In less than three months, more than 50 volunteers and 15 businesses donate money, materials, and labor to renovate the Charles Street space into a theatre. |
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| November 1994 |
Everyman Theatre opens the doors of its new facility with the critically-acclaimed production of Buried Child by Sam Shepard, co-produced with Rep Stage, an Equity theatre in Columbia, MD. At the same time, Everyman signs a contract with the Actors' Equity Association. |
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| July-August 1995 |
Everyman Theatre offers disadvantaged inner-city children a day in the theatre. The 5-9 year olds work alongside professional actors to act out Aesop's Fables and dramatize plays about their own life experiences. The program is a great success. |
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| 1995-1996 |
Everyman Theatre presents Voice of the Prairie, Oleanna, The Foreigner, and Tana Hicken as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst. Everyman embarks on its first capital campaign, raising $30,000. Board President James Eyler resigns to become a judge, and the Board elects Gordon Becker as the new Board President. |
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| 1996-1997 |
Everyman Theatre announces is first subscription season: Talley's Folly, Amadeus, Lisbon Traviata, and The Importance of Being Ernest, attracting more than 400 subscribers. In September 1997, Everyman is named Baltimore's Best Live Theatre by the City Paper. |
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| 1997-1998 |
Everyman Theatre presents All in the Timing, The Trip To Bountiful, Lonely Planet, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and subscribers increase by 33%. In July 1998, Everyman is chosen as Baltimore's Best Local Theatre by Baltimore Magazine and company member Timmy Ray James receives a Best Acting Performance Award for his portrayal of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. |
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| 1998-1999 |
The Lion in Winter is the most successful selling production to date, immediately topped by the even more successful The Price. Company member Vivienne Shub is recognized as Best Actress by the City Paper for Heathen Valley. In June 1999, Everyman holds its first fundraising event, Salut! Everyman, raising over $47,000 for the theatre. |
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| 1999-2000 |
The Last Night of Ballyhoo breaks all box office records and The Glass Menagerie wins two prestigious Helen Hayes Awards. The subscriber base tops 1,500. |
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| 2000-2001 |
Everyman Theatre adds a fifth production to the season. The Crucile is co-produced with the Baltimore School for the Arts and includes twelve high school students rehearsing and performing with Everyman's professional actors. Pearl Cleage, author of Blues for an Alabama Sky, talks with outreach students during a post-show workshop. Everyman performs at 93% capacity for the season. |
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| 2001-2002 |
Everyman Theatre opens the season with 2,300 subscribers and performs Watch on the Rhine at 98% capacity. The second play, Waverly Gallery, plays to 96% capacity. Everyman expands its Education and Outreach programming with the new EveryYouth Theatre after-school initiative for middle school children. Everyman's theatre education programs now reach nearly 1,300 Baltimore City public school students. |
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| 2002-2003 |
With the assistance of National Arts Stabilization, Inc., Everyman Theatre develops and adopts a three-year strategic plan. The run of each of the plays in Everyman's season is extended to five weeks. An additional matinee and an additional school are added to the High School Outreach program. Now students from five city high schools attend all five plays in the season. |
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| 2003-2004 |
Everyman Theatre adds two full-time staff positions, Marketing Director and Development Director, and the organization's operational budget tops $1 million. Everyman produces its first musical, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Everyman's production of Proof tops box office records and the cast later travels to Pennsylvania to reprise the show at Totem Pole Playhouse. |
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| 2004-2005 |
Full subscriptions increase by 20% to nearly 4,000 subscribers. In September 2004, the board elects Zelig Robinson as the theatre's fourth President. Productions include Yellowman and Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune. |
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| 2005-2006 |
Everyman Theatre's second musical, The Last Five Years, breaks box office financial and ticket attendance records. Subscriptions increase by 15% to over 4,000 subscribers. Another full time staff position of Bookkeeper is created. Two productions, The Cripple of Inishmaan and Candida garner City Paper Top Ten awards and Resident Company member Deborah Hazlett is named Best Actress in the City Paper's Best of Baltimore Issue. |
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| 2006-2007 |
Everyman Theatre introduces its new Explore! Everyman Series – including the world premiere of The Cone Sister and a Cabaret Series – which serves as a laboratory for new works and genres. Everyman adds two full-time staff positions: Assistant Development Director and Executive Assistant. In November 2006, Everyman makes an official announcement that it had received a gift of The Town Theatre, located at 315 West Fayette Street on the West Side of Baltimore City. The building, valued at $1.8 million, was donated to Everyman by the Bank of America and the Harold Dawson Trust, and will be renovated over the next three years to offer sufficient scene shops, costume and props facilities, education space, and a 250-300 seat state-of-the-art theatre. Everyman produces a never seen before adaptation of Brinsley's classic play The School for Scandal, the theatre's largest and most elaborate production to date. Opus and The School for Scandal garner critical awards from broadwayworld.com and the City Paper. |
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| 2007-2008 |
Everyman Theatre expands to eight performances per week, adding a Sunday evening performance. A new brunch series and student/educator subscriptions are offered to further diversify audiences and provide affordable ticket packages. The theatre launches a MySpace page to reach younger audiences. The theatre produces the Baltimore premiere of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean and its first Shakespeare production, Much Ado About Nothing. The new Explore! Everyman Series continues with a cabaret tribute to Rodgers and Hart and a collaboration with slam poet Gayle Danley. |
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