Key City Improv
Our home grown heroes are back! During the Holidays of 2021, a group of Ensemble School improv students formed Key City, specializing in short form improv! If you enjoy "Whose Line is it Anyway?" you will love this show!
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
31 West Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Maryland Ensemble Theatre is a theatre in Frederick, MD.
Upcoming Shows
"The Fall of the House of Improv" at MET Comedy Night
The Comedy Pigs, in collaboration with the National Poe Theatre, present Fall of the House of Improv: an interactive improvised show where the performers blend Edgar Allan Poe macabre mystery with razor-sharp wit and audience inspired comedy to rewrite and perform a completely...
Planet Claire: A Sci-Fi Go-Go Musical
Maryland Ensemble Theatre revives Planet Claire, a sci-fi go-go musical built around the music of The B-52s, in partnership with Theatre FCC. Originally premiering at MET in 2003, the show was written and directed by MET founding producing artistic director Tad Janes. The...
Lighting Round
Calling all Dropout fans - we have the show for you! Lightning Round is an improv comedy game show where the contestants find out the rules as they're playinh. Come see what's up and who will win.
Clue, but Bloody
There's been a murder! and there's sure to be more in this delightfully (potentially excessively) stage-blood packed, improvised whodunit! See which of the members of the house party will survive the night! Come in costume for a fun Halloween trick or treat! Upgrade to the VIP...
Mouth Stuff
Mouth Stuff is a Baltimore legend. Starting from a monologue inspired by the audience, things fly off the handle from there. Expect lots of talking animals and stories that usually end in demise.
Fall Over Laughing with The Comedy Pigs
Established in 1993, The Comedy Pigs are the region’s longest-running improv troupe. They are also a founding piece of the MET. Join them for a hilarious show filled with a series of fun short-form improv games. If you enjoy “Who’s line is it anyway” you will love this show!
That's What She Said
That's what SHE said is an all female improv team. They bring their own brand of long form to the stage that is informed by their experience as baby mamas, baddies, and besties. These gal pals have been performing together since 2022 and have even been a book club since 2026.
Key City Improv
Our home grown heroes are back! During the Holidays of 2021, a group of Ensemble School improv students formed Key City, specializing in short form improv! If you enjoy "Whose Line is it Anyway?" you will love this show!
Oh Crit!
Roll for initiative! Oh Crit performs improv comedy fused with "Dungeons & Dragons". Join them as they embark on an adventure of twists and turns, and occasional epic failure...All with the help from YOU and an unforgiving 20-sided die!
The Crater Sisters' Christmas Special
THE CRATER SISTERS’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL BY JOHN MOROGIELLO AND LORI BOYD DIRECTED BY LYNN SHAPR SPEARS MUSIC DIRECTED BY MELYNDA BURDETTE WINTROL CHOREOGRAPHED BY JULIE HERBER NOVEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 20 When the entire cast and crew quit thirty minutes before her comeback special...
Improvised Austen
You are cordially invited to our Jane Austen- inspired improv show! Featuring arranged marriages, nosy neighbors, and plenty of scandals.
Being Human
Rich and AJ are bringing new life to an old MET Comedy night favorite. They will host a surreal and strange talk show about what it means to be human, with the help of very special guests!
The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza!
When Mo Willems' characters get together for the holidays, it's bound to be the biggest extravaganza ever! The Unlimited Squirrels deck the halls and Elephant and Piggie come ready to celebrate! But will The Pigeon join in the festivities, or will he run all the way to the North...
Lighting Round
Calling all Dropout fans - we have the show for you! Lightning Round is an improv comedy game show where the contestants find out the rules as they're playinh. Come see what's up and who will win.
The Moors
A lush, queer, and Gothic dark comedy set in the isolated moors of northern England, where nothing is as it seems. Two sisters, their maid, and a melancholy dog live in a wretched existence in a crumbling and strange mansion, set apart from the world...until the arrival of a...
Appropriate
An aging patriarch has died, leaving his messy and bitter family left to pick through the pieces of their crumbling childhood plantation home. At once a biting satire and a searing spotlight on America's dark history, Appropriate asks what, if anything, deserves to be preserved...
The 39 Steps
A madcap, campy parody of the original Hitchcock movie, The 39 Steps, is a wild and hilarious spy thriller. Four actors play nearly a hundred different roles in a highly stylized and side-splitting send-up of the genre.
Articles
Review: MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Victor Frankenstein had a plan. A magnificent plan. A plan to conquer death, overturn nature and establish himself as the greatest scientific mind since God invented the universe.…
Review: TITUS/MEATLOAF at Baltimore Theatre Project
Motte & Bailey Production presents Titus/ Meatloaf adapted and directed by Hannah Fogler. The fourth and final installment of their Shakespeare/Music series. The combo of one of Shakespeare's bloodiest play and the album Bat out of Hell come together in one of the most insane nights I've ever had in…
Review: Obviously SOMEBODY Cares: LAURA BENANTI: NOBODY CARES, at Baltimore Center Stage
She’s sufficiently droll as a storyteller that she invariably amuses. The audience was in the palm of her hand from the first.…
Review: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Shows Off Stellar Talent at Laurel Mill Playhouse!
All the world is a party, and everyone is welcome to join at Laurel Mill Playhouse. While the original 2006 form of The Drowsy Chaperone may inspire cautious apprehension in the hearts of knowing theatre-goers, LMP’s mounting directed by Alex Campbell proves that Drowsy can still show off in style…
Review: KIM'S CONVENIENCE at Everyman Theatre
Kim’s Convenience, written by Ins Choi and directed by Cara Hinh is a deft comedy about a family that loves one another but doesn’t quite know how to talk to each another.…
Review: 10X10X10 PLAY FESTIVAL at Fells Point Corner Theatre Scores Tens Across the Board!
Tucked between row homes on a quiet, one-way street in Upper Fells Point lives an 18th century firehouse with a community whose heart could carry the entire city of Baltimore. No single event showcases this better than Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10 Play Festival. This festival is not to b…
Review: MY FAVORITE SOCIOPATH at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Thanks to a serious discussion wrought by the end, the play avoids being a mere entertainment. The characters are not merely competing, ruthlessly but wittily too, for whatever prizes journalism may have to offer, but are visibly debasing their souls to win those prizes, and with their souls, part o…
Review: REFUGEE RHAPSODY at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Refugee Rhapsody, by Yussef El Guindi, is kind of funny. You may consider that an odd trait for a play about violence, racism, immigration and the dangerous effects of celebrity culture, but it happens to be true. In our media environment we are frequently confronted by enormities that leave us very…
Review: BEST LINE WINS at Contemporary American Theater Festival
There are a lot of good laughs there.…
Review: THE SMOKER at Contemporary American Theater Festival
In the end, this is not so much of a takedown of one specific person as of a way of being a person. To shrink down to that person’s size is to lose out on life. In this good and carefully-written play, D’Amour makes that clear.…
Past Shows
75 total · showing 51–60
Alice by Heart
In the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, Alice Spencer’s budding teen life is turned upside down, and she and her dear friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. When the ailing Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with...
Clyde's
CLYDE’S BY LYNN NOTTAGE DIRECTED BY RIKKI HOWIE MAY 16 – JUNE 15 Preview May 15 ASL Interpreted Performance May 23 Clyde’s, a truck stop sandwich shop, offers its misfit kitchen staff a shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner tries to keep them down, the staff...
Head over Heels
In this joyous musical featuring the music of 80s band, The Go-Gos, Princess Pamela, a headstrong and adventurous young woman embarks on a quest to save her kingdom from a prophecy of doom.
The Squirrels
The patriarch of a family of grey squirrels has stowed away enough nuts for 10 winters, but the fox squirrels from way over near the 7-11 want in on his stash. In this fiercely funny and provocative play, the writer of Hand to God exposes the way we use power and domination to...
Elephant & Piggie's We are in a Play!
In this vaudevillian romp, Elephant and Piggie sing and dance their way through plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense. An elephant named Gerald and a pig named Piggie are best, best, “bestus” friends, but Gerald worries that something could go wrong that would end...
Intimate Apparel
In 1905, Esther, a proud but shy black seamstress, sews intimates for her clientele. She’s saved quite a bit making beautiful undergarments for both posh Fifth Avenue boudoirs and upscale bordellos, all while daydreaming of romance and new beginnings.
Family Fun Day 2024
FREE ACTIVITIES 10am–1pm Our popular FREE Family Fun Day is back! Stop by our Fun Company open house for a day full of fun free activities. We hope you’ll stay after for our Fun Company family series performance. CHARACTER APPEARANCES THEATRE WORKSHOPS CIRCUS ACTIVITIES...
MET Comedy Night: Hallmark Vali-Improv
Is your big city job getting you down and you feel like you need some quality time at the local AirBnB? Are you having trouble with love and hoping to run into your smalltown High School sweetheart? Did you lose your memory and need to find out who you are before Valentine’s Day...
Inebriated Holiday
Laugh your way through the holidays in this original show from the team who brought you Inebriated History. Some of your favorite holiday stories are told on screen by actors imbibing in holiday cheer, while a team of actors acts out the antics live on stage.
Hallmark Holi-Improv
Do you yourself tend to get yourself in situations where you lose your memory or end up in a small town or fall in love with the hot farm hand? Take a break from your Hallmark life and come enjoy a completely improvised tale.
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" Classic Theatre of Maryland (12/03-1/03) |
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Summer and Smoke McDaniel College (11/19-11/21) |
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical Imagination Stage (11/21-1/03) |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Colonial Players of Annapolis (10/23-11/08) |
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McDaniel for the Holidays McDaniel College (11/15-11/15) |
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The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
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Bob Marley's Three Little Birds Adventure Theatre MTC (6/25-8/22) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Iron Crow Theatre (10/16-11/07) |
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Fall Over Laughing with The Comedy Pigs Maryland Ensemble Theatre (11/07-11/07) |
