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Keeping you all at Bay.... in our hearts. Thank you for your support and encouraging messages. We'll keep you updated of any progress on this website.   Wonderful audience for our last performance, The Petoskey Stones! See below.

Bay Theatre Fan Mail

Here are some of the wonderful, supportive emails/Facebook postings we've received recently. Thank you!:

6/6/13- Steven Strawn
"COMMENTS REFERRING TO JOHN MYERS POST BELOW:
Finally someone not beating around the bush, making politically correct remarks or watching words. Telling it like it is! Forget this see them later sentimentality. Let's see them now! I've learned the longer you wait the least likely it is to happen. This is a theatre that should have the backing of every person and business in town. This is the most rare opportunity to make a donation to save a theatre. A theatre that was up for a Helen Hayes Award 3 times and won once 2012. This is DC's equivalency of the Tony Award in New York. This Little Theatre (81 seats) is playing with the DC Big Boys! Arthur Edwards once told me "I have attended theatre around the world and the Bay Theatre beats them all, And to think it's in my own backyard." Miss Luby is the most talented person I have every met. We have her now but for how long? Lets not let her get away. I for one will donate $20,000 to start. Come on let's see all the "big wigs" and not so "big wigs" step up and save this Annapolis icon! I am tired of hoping for someone with lots of money to help. Forget about a singular hero stepping in and bailing out the Bay Theatre. Let's all be hero's and get this Annapolis Institution back on it's feet. This is your chance to give back some of the joy and hard work that the Bay Theatre and Janet Luby have given you over the years. We had quality theatre on a relatively few donors dimes and for so long we have taken it for granted. I use to think that it didn't take much money to run a little theatre until I volunteered and found out that it takes a lot of money. Let us try to at least get $300,000.00 to get this theatre rolling again and go from there. Even if you can give a little it will help. If I were talking about poor little puppy without a home everyone would help. So let's find your little Annapolis Puppy a home. If we don't, Shame On Us! An Irreplaceable Loss!"

6/6/13- Madonna Fick
"I am so sorry to hear about the suspension of the theater. I really enjoyed bringing my children to the children's theater performances during the summer. I will watch anxiously for your re-opening!"

6/5/13- John Myres
"Theatre like this should not disappear. Luby is unrivaled in her field... It appears to me that Annapolis is losing one of, if not it's brightest star in Luby. People like this can not be replaced. A big talent in a small market. I have seen this before someone, maybe a big theatre company in DC or Baltimore comes along and scoop them up and we are left wondering why something more was not none. Caio Janet Luby - she was Annapolis's own. "

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Events


Our Final Performance - The Petoskey Stones (June 3)

Wine and Words
- by Mary Johnson, Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2013

Bay Theatre Company gave one final performance of its Wine and Words series last week with a reading of Los Angeles playwright Elizabeth Sampson's "The Petoskey Stones," co-hosted by Dignity Players at the Annapolis Unitarian Universalist Church. Bay's artistic director and co-founder, Janet Luby, and Bay's Associate Actors created this series a few seasons ago to give the community free play readings, along with with the shared camaraderie of mingling over wine before and after each event.

"Stones," about the deep bruises that come to the surface when family members get together, tells of four sisters who arrive at their grandmother's Michigan cottage to come to terms with their mother's death, and with their own lives' past and future.

Drawn from Bay artists, the cast featured Janet Luby, Rena Cherry Brown, Valerie Leonard, Alicia Sweeney and Jennifer Mendenhall, and was directed by the playwright's husband, Scott Alan Smith.


For Annapolis' Bay Theatre, 'Wine and Words' event a possible curtain call
- by Wendi Winters, Capital Gazette, June 5, 2013

The line could have been from a play.

“We’re not homeless,” said Janet Luby, artistic director and co-founder of Bay Theatre. “We’re home free.”

Since Friday, the 12-year old, award-winning professional theater has been without a performance space.

While most other theater groups are already working on planning and marketing for next season, the curtain seems to have come down on Bay Theatre, which had a subscriber base of more than 550 and filled the seats at most shows. [Read more]


BAY THEATRE COMPANY TO SUSPEND OPERATIONS

ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 30, 2013) – The Board of Directors of the Bay Theatre Company, Inc. has voted to suspend operations of the theatre, which has been in existence since 2001. The board determined that the theatre could not in good conscience accept subscriptions for the 2013-2014 program year without having a long-term lease on their current space.

“The Bay Theatre has had a tremendous 12-year run, winning many awards for excellence in theatre and setting the bar very high for theatre in Annapolis,” said Barbara Brown, President of the Board of Directors. “We have spent a year looking for appropriate space, but were unable to find it. We very much appreciate the public’s support over the past 12 years.”

The theatre’s current production, “The Price,” will close on May 12, one week earlier than planned in order to allow dismantling of the theatre stage before May 31. Those holding tickets for shows the week after May 12 will be given an opportunity to obtain earlier tickets. Ticketholders, who are unable to change their tickets to earlier dates in May, will be given full refunds.

Ticketholders may contact the theatre by calling 877-503-9463 or e-mailing [email protected]

Read Curtain falls on Bay Theatre
Annapolis company searching for new home

By Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun, May 9, 2013




 

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