'The Baltimore Waltz'

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel started working on her 1990 play, The Baltimore Waltz, shortly after her brother died of AIDS-related complications in 1988. Described by the New York Times as a “tender and caustic comedy,” the work follows Anna, a young schoolteacher with a mysterious illness, on a wild European romp with her sibling Carl. A twist at the show’s end reinforces themes of grief, love and the desire to connect with a loved one who will be gone too soon. Claudio Medeiros directs student actors Alexis De La Rosa, Madeleine Russell, Kevin Collins and Ryan Kirby in a Middlebury College Department of Theatre production.