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.
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.
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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 61–70
My Father the Elf
Lorrie’s world is turned upside down after she discovers that her dad is moonlighting as an elf at the North Pole. But when the ‘up to no good’ Kris Kringle kidnaps Santa Claus, it’s up to Lorrie and her dad to save the holidays!
Our "Improv" Town
Spend a night being transported to a small town where its past, present and future are created right in front of your eyes. This show is inspired by Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Our Town and Washington Improv Theaters improv show. But MET Comedy Nights...
The Legend of Georgia McBride
Hes young, hes broke, his landlords knocking at the door, and hes just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make matters even more desperate, Casey is fired from his gig as an Elvis impersonator in a run-down, small-town Florida bar. When the bar owner brings in a...
The Legend of Georgia McBride
Toms, the son of migrant farm workers, meets a librarian who introduces him to the wonderful world of books. The stories enrich the lives of Toms family and instill a love of reading. This is the inspiring true story of Toms Rivera, who grew up in a migrant worker family...
Meteor Shower
Maryland Ensemble Theatre presents Meteor Shower, a new play by Steve Martin! Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets...
Giggle Giggle Quack
MET's FUN Company presents the hillarious follow-up to the children's classic: Click Click Moo!Running a farm is hard work, especially with cows that type, hens on strike, and a duck whos always causing trouble. So Farmer Brown takes off for a well-deserved vacation, leaving his...
No, Virginia: A Grown-up Holiday Farce
Santa Claus is coming to town! Or rather, Tiffany hopes she can get a Santa to come to the Christmas party shes throwing for her daughter, all the while juggling a meddling mother, an irritating ex-husband, an ardent ex-boyfriend, and a potential blizzard!This MET World Premiere...
The Revolutionists
Maryland Ensemble Theatre presents a true story, or a total fiction, about Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle who are losing their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered...
Midsummer: A Most Rare Vision
An Outdoor, Immersive, Theatrical Celebration at ThorpeWood12805-A Mink Farm Road Thurmont, MD 21788Midsummer: A Most Rare Vision is an immersive/environmental piece that is inspired by Shakespeares A Midsummer NIghts Dream. The piece invites the audience, in guided groups, to...
Daytona McKane and the Quest for the Golden Mole
Maryland Ensemble Theatre: - Matt Baughman.
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La Sylphide Maryland Hall (10/16-10/18) |
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The Score Shakespeare Theatre Company (9/11-10/25) |
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Key City Improv Maryland Ensemble Theatre (10/23-10/23) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Hippodrome Theatre- France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (10/25-11/01) |
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Musical Imagination Stage (9/26-10/18) |
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Being Human Maryland Ensemble Theatre (11/28-11/28) |
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The Dinner Detective Baltimore True Crime Murder Mystery Show The Dinner Detective Baltimore (11/14-11/14) |
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Compass Rose Theater at Annapolis Mall (9/18-10/18) |
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The Wizard of Oz Toby's Dinner Theatre (3/20-6/07) |
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Classic Theatre of Maryland presents "SCHOOL FOR WIVES" Classic Theatre of Maryland (6/01-8/31) |
