Upcoming Shows
City of Angels
Mar 5 – Mar 28, 2026
A smart and stylish film noir musical. In the late 1940s, Stine, a bookish writer of detective stories, struggles to adapt his crime novel into...
Review: AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES AT Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026
Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...
Review: DAWN at the Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026
In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...
Review: A Realistic and Involving STEREOPHONIC at National Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026
History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026
When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...
Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at Vagabond Players
by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026
This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....
Review: WICKED at The Hippodrome
by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025
For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...
Review: DECEIVED at Everyman Theatre
by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025
Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...
Past Shows
Other Desert Cities
Jan 9 – Jan 31, 2026
Written by Jon Robin BaitzDirected by Laura GayvertPerformance Dates: January 9 - 31, 2026In the glare of a Palm Springs Christmas, a family gathers—and fractures—as...
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Oct 24 – Nov 15, 2025
In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who also...
An Ideal Husband
Sep 5 – Sep 27, 2025
When a well-kept past threatens a rising politician’s future, personal ideals clash with public image. With dazzling dialogue and timely themes, the play explores reputation,...
Bump
Apr 25 – May 17, 2025
Directed by Shannon BenilPerformance Dates: April 25 - May 17, 2025Run time: 1h 30m(no intermission)Showtimes: Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pmA car mechanic on the...
Working — A Musical
Feb 28 – Mar 29, 2025
Based on Studs Terkel's best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes...
Alabama Story
Jan 10 – Feb 1, 2025
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing, a controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist...
A Visit From St. Nicholas
Dec 5 – Dec 15, 2024
Join us this December at the Thomas family holiday party, where the descendants of Clement Clarke Moore like to reenact the creation of his most...
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan
Oct 25 – Nov 16, 2024
The Winslow Boy is a compelling courtroom drama that explores themes of justice, family loyalty, and sacrifice. Set in Edwardian England, the play follows the...
Tiny Beautiful Things
Sep 6 – Sep 28, 2024
Based on the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Apr 26 – May 18, 2024
15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end...
The Baker's Wife
Mar 1 – Mar 30, 2024
Music & Lyrics by Stephen SchwartzBook by Joseph SteinDirected by Michelle BrunoPerformance Dates: March 1 - 30, 2024The bickering residents of a rural village in...
Marjorie Prime
Jan 12 – Feb 3, 2024
It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband — otherwise known...
A Christmas Carol
Dec 17 – Jan 1, 2024
It’s only Christmas in Annapolis when A Christmas Carol is playing at CP! The Colonial Players is delighted to bring this Dicken’s classic back to the stage...
A Christmas Carol
Dec 7 – Dec 17, 2023
It’s only Christmas in Annapolis when A Christmas Carol is playing at CP! The Colonial Players is delighted to bring this Dicken’s classic back to the stage...
In Conversation with Jefferson Mays
Dec 12
As part of the 75th Anniversary Season Celebration, The Colonial Players of Annapolis are bringing a true Broadway luminary to town as the Tony and...
Broadway star Jefferson Mays reads A Christmas Carol
Dec 11
As part of the 75th Anniversary Season Celebration, The Colonial Players of Annapolis are bringing a true Broadway luminary to town as the Tony and...
Wit by Margaret Edson
Oct 20 – Nov 11, 2023
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has...
Tartuffe
Sep 8 – Sep 30, 2023
Written by Molière, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Beth Terranova.When piety disguises cunning, there’s danger in the air… While the ostensibly...
Ravenscroft
May 19 – Jun 10, 2023
On a snowy night, Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of Patrick Roarke down the main staircase. In...
Putting It Together
Apr 7 – May 6, 2023
Putting It TogetherWords and Music by Stephen Sondheim Devised by Stephen Sondheim & Julia McKenzieOrchestrations by Jonathan TunickDirected by Vincent MusgraveMusic Direction by Andrew...
The Book of Will
Feb 24 – Mar 19, 2023
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without actors Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half...
Crimes of the Heart
Jan 6 – Jan 28, 2023
The three Magrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst, Mississippi in the mid 1970's. Lenny, the eldest, never left Hazelhurst -- she...
The Lifespan of a Fact
Oct 21 – Nov 12, 2022
When a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a New York magazine meets a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy,...
Art
Sep 9 – Oct 1, 2022
The Colonial Players present Art by Yasmina Reza. A comedy/drama based around 3 middle-aged men of comfortable means who have stayed friends with each other...
Freaky Friday
Apr 22 – May 15, 2022
The Colonial Players are proud to present this joyous Disney musical version of Mary Rodgers' beloved book is heartfelt, comedic, and unexpectedly emotional. When an...
Agnes of God
Mar 17 – Apr 2, 2022
An exploration of faith and memory, that forces three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love, leading to a dramatic,...
The Lost Boy
Feb 17 – Mar 6, 2022
This heartwarming, fictionalized story follows author James Barrie and the forces that drove the creation of his many beloved characters. Haunted by the tragic loss...
The Lost Boy
Jan 14 – Feb 5, 2022
This heartwarming, fictionalized story follows author James Barrie and the forces that drove the creation of his many beloved characters. Haunted by the tragic loss...
A Christmas Carol
Dec 2 – Dec 12, 2021
The Colonial Players are excited to announce our 2021 production of A Christmas Carol! The play was written for The Colonial Players by local playwright...
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct 22 – Nov 13, 2021
The Colonial Players of Annapolis presents Lynn Nottage's play, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark. This spritely, sly satirical journey through Vera Starks seventy-year life,...
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
Oct 22 – Nov 13, 2021
It's the Golden Age of Hollywood, spotlight on Vera Stark, a headstrong African American maid and aspiring starlet. Veras life is transformed when shes cast...
The Revolutionists
Sep 10 – Oct 2, 2021
At the height of the French Revolutions Reign of Terror, its 1793, and time to meet four beautiful, bad-ass women: former queen Marie Antoinette, assassin...
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