Fall 2024, JHU Presents Passage

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Note: if you are not affiliated with JHU, you may find it difficult to purchase tickets in via the JHU ticketing system. Please email us to reserve seats: [email protected]. You can pay at the performance with cash or check.

To Purchase Tickets Click Here

Note: if you are not affiliated with JHU, you may find it difficult to purchase tickets in via the JHU ticketing system. Please email us to reserve seats: [email protected]. You can pay at the performance with cash or check.

Christopher Chen’s Passage asks about the possibility of friendship in a world distorted by power and dominance. When one country has colonized another, when one group has taken for granted its social and economic superiority, can anyone, the colonizer or the colonized, find a path toward better human relations? And how does it feel when you cannot tell the colonizer from the colonized? Reimagining E.M. Forster’s Passage to India as a confrontation between people from “Country X” and from “Country Y,” Chen invites us into a remarkable political space that quiets our tendencies to take sides. First performed in the polarized America of 2019, this is an even more necessary play in the fall of 2024.

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See a show at Center Stage

The John Astin Theatre in Merrick Barn

The John Astin Theatre is located in the historic Merrick Barn, at the center of Homewood Campus. The 104-seat theatre, with a classic proscenium stage, hosts all JHU Theatre productions. Merrick Barn is also home to the Undergraduate Program in Theatre Arts & Studies.

Parking and Directions

• Visitors can park in the South Garage, located under the Decker Quadrangle on Wyman Park Drive. The garage is fully automated and open 24 hours. The pay station is in the vestibule next to the Parking Office. The weekend flat rate is $8.
• Drivers may first drop their passengers at the Merrick Barn and then drive to the South Garage. It is a 10-minute walk from the South Garage to the Merrick Barn.
• Street parking should be available near the Baltimore Museum of Art. Walk through the sculpture garden for easiest access to Merrick Barn.
• Use Google Maps to find the theatre.

Construction Notice: Please be aware that due to construction, Merrick Barn cannot be accessed directly from the Beach or North Charles Street. You may get to the Barn from the south: walk up from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Or you may get there from the west, from Wyman Quad. JHU affiliates with IDs can cut through Brody. We are sorry for the inconvenience.