It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause – truth, justice and the pursuit of rock and roll.

It’s 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland. We are at an anti-polio picnic, celebrating the vaccine and honoring the polio poster child, a young teen in an iron lung. The polio plague is simply the setup for ...

Arcola Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Cry-Baby, The Musical. The 17-strong cast is the largest ensemble for a production in the theatre’s history.

Arcola Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Cry-Baby the Musical. The Tony-nominated musical follows the romance between Allison, a straight-laced rich ...

Based on the 1990 John Waters film that starred a young Johnny Depp (which I haven’t seen), Cry-Baby, The Musical is a 1950s-set frippery about romance across the class divide that never takes itself ...