BALTIMORE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 258

Bach to Rock (B2R), America's music school for students of all ages, announced today that the B2R Battle of the Bands IX is heading back to the 9:30 Club, Washington, DC's premiere live music venue, January 7-8 & 21, 2012 for a jam band showdown.

The Iceman Cometh is Eugene O'Neill's look at the potential to really possess our dreams and relations in life.

Everyman Theatre presents Fifty Words, making its Baltimore Premiere.

The Vagabond Players begin the year with a must see production of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Sherrione Brown.

Prepare yourselves for a psychotropic journey into the final frontier of comedy with Laugh Station: Infinity, the first episode of a new, original, experimental, multimedia comedy show by Jack Colliver & Matt Lee, the mad scientists behind the infamous Sketch! series.

The Howard County Arts Council is now accepting attendee registration for its annual Cultural Arts Showcase presented in partnership with the Recreation & Leisure Service Branch (RALS) of the Maryland Recreation & Parks Association.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's premier classical theatre company will present William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at Oliver's Carriage House in Columbia, MD, February 17 to March 24, 2012.

In partnerships with the Open Society Institute, Urbanite, and Enoch Pratt Library, CENTERSTAGE presents a series of expert panels exploring Gleam, the stage adaptation of the groundbreaking novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by controversial Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Dundalk Community Theatre is set to host auditions for Go Back For Murder by Agatha Christie.

Workshop Theatre is returning in the New Year with a musical about family ties as John and Jen takes the stage.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present The Post Holiday, Pre Superbowl, Winter Season Kick off Sketch Show! by our resident sketch/improv troupe, The Comedy Pigs.

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents its Mini One Act Festival from Wednesday January 4, 2012 through Thursday January 5, 2012.

Trustus Theatre is returning from the holidays with a new offering for late-night entertainment-seekers.

CENTERSTAGE Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah announces this week that Gleam, an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's beloved novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner, will fill the third slot of the 2011-12 Season, running Jan 4-Feb 5, 2012.

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The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.

Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) has announced the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2012, a new public art initiative in Howard County, MD.

Olney Theatre Center, a 73-year-old professional, award-winning, year-round theatre, announces the return of Paul Morella's unique and memorable solo performance of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas.

The Winter Sunshine Series Kicks off Dec 29th with Crabgrass Puppet Theatre's Mr Punch's Christmas Carol.

The Winter Sunshine Series Kicks off Dec 29th with Crabgrass Puppet Theatre's Mr Punch's Christmas Carol.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre launched its Children Theatre in 1996 with an original production of Sleeping Beauty.

Prepare yourselves for a psychotropic journey into the final frontier of comedy with Laugh Station: Infinity, the first episode of a new, original, experimental, multimedia comedy show by Jack Colliver & Matt Lee, the mad scientists behind the infamous Sketch! series.

It's almost over! There's just FOUR days of voting remaining for the 2011 Baltimore Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Baltimore Award? There is no tim

The Winter Sunshine Series Kicks off Dec 29th with Crabgrass Puppet Theatre's Mr Punch's Christmas Carol.