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Fresh off receiving the 2019 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, Ally will open its third season with the regional premiere of Naomi Wallace's The War Boys.

It's an old trick, but a good one: Set two contrasting dramatic tones (usually domestic comedy and dread) against each other and let them fight it out throughout a play.

The drama works because of the intriguing way the characters' ideas about how to act in response to Marian Anderson's two provocative exclusions (first from Nassau Inn and then from Constitution Hall) shift repeatedly in response to new information, so that consensus is almost impossible to achieve,

And now of course we are into the story of Antonio's family of origin, and the world of his origin, which has conditioned him to behave this way, which implicitly and explicitly looks to its men to solve problems with violence.

Ten-time Helen Hayes Award Recipient Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) announces Chil Kong as its new Artistic Director.

The inaugural season of Olney Theatre's Center's Applause Concert Series comes to a close Friday, July 26 at 8:00pm with a one-night-only performance of Children of Eden, a lesser-known work by Stephen Schwartz, the creator of such hits as Wicked, Pippin and Godspell.

Credit Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer for this season on a high.

In May 2019, the Howard County Council approved County Executive Calvin Ball's FY20 arts appropriation of $890,000 to the Howard County Arts Council (HCAC).

Let me admit when I saw MATILDA on Broadway in 2013 (winner of 5 Tony Awards), I did not enjoy it.

Berowne gloomily foresees: 'Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three year's space.

Unless you've been living under a (Plymouth?) rock, chances are you are acquainted with the Tony Award winning Broadway phenomenon known as 'HAMILTON,' the innovative, ground-breaking musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

BWW Review: DISASTER! at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre at Essex Community College is a HOOT

Olney Theatre Center's SummerFest, its annual open house, happens Saturday, July 27 beginning at 11:00am with events continuing all day and late into the evening.

Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main Street in historic Laurel, MD.

Two episodes of The Institute of Visionary History and the Archives of the Deep Now will return in July and August at The Peale Center (225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD 21202).

Create summer memories under the stars as Chesapeake Shakespeare Company-in-the-Ruins returns for its seventeenth season at Howard County's enchanting Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City.

The Court Jesters Young People's Theatre takes the stage at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, in residence at CCBC Essex.

Impending Executive Director of Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) Leon Seemann and exiting Artistic Director Michael J.

Festival Baltimore proudly presents a solo recital with Brooklyn-based virtuoso pianist Beth Levin on Saturday, June 29th at 7:30pm at Linehan Concert Hall at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

With The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's current 25th Anniversary Season coming to a close, the theatre has announced auditions for Little Shop of Horrors, the opening show of its 2019/2020 Season.

A thinly-disguised parable of the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui may have been written in 1941, but it may as well have been addressed directly to Americans of 2019.

Over 60 million people have seen this worldwide phenomenon and for its 25th Anniversary Season, Way Off Broadway is bringing this international sensation to the Frederick stage for the very first time.

The Howard County Center for the Arts (HCCA) will begin accepting requests for Fall 2019-Spring 2020 rental dates (September through May) on July 1, 2019.

Ready for some young energy at Toby's in Columbia? Here's a whole high school musical of less-frequently featured faces! The company dances Mark Minnick's fun choreography like they go together forever, bedecked in rolled denim jeans, wiggle skirts, saddle shoes, Chuck Taylor sneakers, product-heavy

Disaster! lovingly pokes fun at two staples of 1970s popular culture: disaster movies like Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure and the disco-heavy pop music of the era.