BALTIMORE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 160

MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE (MET) presents 'Materialize, a thought-provoking, world premiere devised puppet production created by MET Ensemble Member Vanessa Strickland.

Application guidelines for the 2016 Rising Star Performing Artist Professional Development Award are now available for download by visiting the "Celebration of the Arts" page at www.

Producers Norton Herrick of Herrick Entertainment and Charlie Burnell of Threesixty Entertainment have extended the Washington area premiere of the spectacular new stage production of PETER PAN through August 23.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 2 week run in 2014 returns to Baltimore for a limited engagement November 3-November 15, 2015 at The Hippodrome Theatre.

The Columbia Festival of the Arts is pleased to announce its 2015 Fall Festival, featuring a diverse array of arts events centered around the Fall Festival's theme: British Invasion.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) has an eclectic and exciting summer planned that features no less than four world premiere productions including hilarious improv shows, original sketch comedies, true tales told though the art of puppetry, award winning drama, and a community collaboration.

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) continues its 2015 season entitled Coming of Age with the TONY Award-winning musical comedy with puppets, Avenue Q: School Edition.

MET-X, of the Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), and Theatre FCC, of Frederick Community College, are collaborating on the world premiere play "Piper', coming to the JBK Theater at Frederick Community College (7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick) from August 7 through 15.

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) will complete its 2015 season entitled Coming of Age with two engaging and varied theatrical experiences: Dogfight and Peter Rabbit.

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its 23rd season with Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz," directed by Suzanne Beal, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director.

Iron Crow Theatre's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Satta has resigned as Artistic Director and the Board has named Sean Elias, previously Iron Crow Theatre's Executive Director, as the company's new Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Olney Theatre Center will host the first ever OTC Fest today, July 25, 2015.

Fresh off the successes of their Inaugural Season, including ParityFest, a city-wide festival of new play readings by female playwrights running through August 9, Cohesion Theatre Company announces Season Two, which will include four main stage productions, and a season-long workshop series.

Furies scream, goddesses judge, and dead girls ponder in Ann Turiano's THE PRETTIES, an adaptation of Aeschylus' blood-soaked trilogy The Oresteia.

 The Baltimore Playwrights Festival continues its 34th Season with Saving Myself for Steve Martin at the Strand Theatre, performing at Church & Company, 3647 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present another installment of the Laugh Station series in this summer's uproarious "Laugh Station: Cuerpo".

The characters are all compelled by circumstances to go back into the woods, and this time they encounter there such things as infidelity, divorce, the death of parents, the death of children, abandonment, catastrophe - and overarching this the absence of a narration (the narrator becomes a casualty

Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, brings Mel Brooks' The Producers to the Washington DC region for the first time in a professional production since the 2004 National Tour.

Spotlighters Theatre (817 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202) is seeking directors and actors for its PARTY FEST readings.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) has an eclectic and exciting summer planned that features no less than four world premiere productions including hilarious improv shows, original sketch comedies, true tales told though the art of puppetry, award winning drama, and a community collaboration.

The overall effect is a bit like a fireworks display, with loud fun things happening more or less continually.

For a weightless and elegant good time, it would be hard to beat The Full Catastrophe, by Michael Weller, at the Contemporary American Theater Festival.

Cockpit in Court continues its 2015 season with a special treat for murder mystery fans.

Students from the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Academic Theatre will be performing 'The Consumables' as part of Artscape 2015.