Steps in Time: Scenes from 1840 Baltimore

1987-10

Program dramatizes issues of racial relations, economic struggles and domestic life for ordinary people in Baltimore around 1840. Adapted from a play created for the Baltimore City Life Museums by Baltimore native Donald Hicken, professor at the Baltimore School of the Arts. Kermit Frazier, a native of Washington, D.C., was commissioned to write the script. Cast: Richard Pilcher, Joy Ehrlich, Ame Ertwine, Mark Redfield, Leslie Jones, Randolph Dixon, Kathy Loy. Director: John Alan Spoler. Dramatic Director: Donald Hicken. Project continued as a ‘living theater” event in Baltimore for several years, performed by the School for the Arts students and professional actors.

Maryland Public Television; Baltimore City Life Museums; Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation

Broadcasting, Communications

North America; United States of America

Public Broadcasting

Special Collections and University Archives

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