BALTIMORE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 273

Olney Theatre Center, a 73-year-old professional, award-winning, year round Theatre, announces the upcoming opening of the Witness for the Prosecution, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story.

This fall, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Maryland's leading professional classic theatre company, will present Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town, at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park.

Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theatre.

Frostburg State University's Center for Creative Writing has announced that Karen Hartline's play, 'Life After Life,' is the winner for the 2011 One-Act Playwriting Competition for the Frostburg One-Act Play Festival.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its 19th season with Liz Duffy Adams' farcical comedy 'Or,'.

Drama Learning Center has announced upcoming auditions for DLC's Teen Professional Company, Teaching Young Actors, and their production of Les Miserables.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's blockbuster 2012 Season continues this fall when the criminally entertaining Kander and Ebb musical Chicago opens at the theatre on Friday evening, September 9th.

Laurel Mill Playhouse will present their One Act Festival, produced by Marvin & Maureen Rogers and Diana & Larry Simmons, on September 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25, 2011

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will kick off its 14th full season of mainstage plays with the hysterically satirical comedy Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, by Christopher Durang.

Mandi and Meg are doing fine until Mandi asks about her father.

Olney Theatre Center's production of GREASE will close on August 28.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 2011 Season continues this summer when it brings the smash hit musical comedy Hairspray to the stage.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel, Md.

Stage Left Productions, the same company that brought The Who's Tommy to Hammonton, will perform the classic musical Cabaret at the Eagle Theatre, located at 208 Vine Street in Downtown Hammonton, at 8pm on August 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27, and 2pm on August 14 and 21.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) has announced its 2011-2012 mainstage season.

THE FANTASTICKS tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud and erecting a wall between their houses.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present the Comedy Pigs 18th Anniversary Weekend with performances on August 26th and 27th at 8pm and its full schedule of shows for the 19th season of Comedy Pigs shows on the MET stage.

Olney Theatre Center, a 73-year-old professional, award-winning, year round Theatre, announces the opening of its 22nd annual Summer Shakespeare Festival and the kick off of the National Players' 63rd Tour.

The Howard County Arts Council is a private, non-profit organization that serves Howard County by fostering the arts, artists, and arts organizations.

Heritage Players, Inc.

The Rocky Horror Show was written by Richard O'Brien and first premiered in London in 1973 and went on to spin off a movie adaptation in 1975 starring Tim Curry as Frank N Furter, Susan Sarandon as Janet, and Barry Bostwick as Brad.

Pumpkin Theatre opens its 44th Season with a classic tale of friendship.

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.

With funding from the Station North Arts and Entertainment District Second Saturdays, the Strand Theater Company presents our first annual Second Saturday Reading Series.

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's fiercely moving portrayal of an African American family struggling to realize the dream of a better life, opens Everyman Theatre's final season on Charles Street.