10 Minute Play Festival
Eight brand-new plays. Endless chaos.Featuring: Pirates! Aliens! Scandals! Existential crises! Questionable life choices! and Feelings of inadequacy! All unfolding in bite-sized bursts of theatrical brilliance...
The Colonial Players of Annapolis
108 East StreetAnnapolis, MD 21401
Upcoming Shows
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.…
Review: ¡VOS! at Contemporary American Theater Festival
This play had been a powerful emotional experience, one I would have delightedly seen again, even before I’d mastered the fact pattern.…
Review: VARIATIONS ON SILENCE at Rapid Lemon Productions
Variations on silence is a collection of twelve short plays, each with it's own powerful interpretation of the chosen theme: silence.…
Review: Viciously Funny MEAN GIRLS AT Rules Toby's In Columbia
MEAN GIRLS at Toby’s in Columbia is a popcorny treat with juicy musical numbers. Enjoy climate-controlled family-friendly live entertainment and a great meal with wonderful service, provided primarily by the show's actors. Through August 23, 2026.…
Review: THE DIVINE SISTER at Vagabond Players
THE DIVINE SISTER is a devilishly funny. It is a fun, comedic, irreverent, and enthralling. It's unlike any of the works that inspired it. The play will seem vaguely familiar at times, but it stands on its own as uniquely creative!…
Review: BOUNCE at Strand Theater Company
What did our critic think of BOUNCE at Strand Theater Company?…
Review: THE DIVINE SISTER at Vagabond Players Ignites Heavenly Delight!
In a world of change and confusion, some essential truths will always remain. Chief among these truths is this: Campy, irreverent, John Waters-style comedy will always have a home in Baltimore. Its current place of residence: Vagabond Players’ 110th season closer, The Divine Sister. …
Review: MISS HOLMES RETURNS at Fells Point Corner Theatre
In the best way possible, MISS HOLMES RETURNS is predictably Sherlock Holmes. And yet so much more—thanks to a recasting of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as women.…
Review: THE HEIDI CHRONICLES at Vagabond Players
This staging of The Heidi Chronicles at the Vagabond Players finds the tension between what was promised and what was delivered, with performances that let the humor land and the questions linger.…
Past Shows
Poor Clare
Picture it: Assisi, Italy. The year is 1211. Clare has everything — beauty, status, a swoon-worthy rich fiancé, and gifts that scream medieval luxury. Total...
City of Angels
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...
Other Desert Cities
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Curtains Robert E. Kauffman Theater - Anne Arundel Community College (7/10-7/19) |
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Variations on Silence Rapid Lemon Productions (7/10-7/26) |
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SWAN LAKE by The United European Ballet Company The Maryland Theatre (10/22-10/22) |
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Maybe Happy Ending Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (9/13-9/19) |
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DC Comedy Club Takeover - Live at McGinty's Public House | Stand Up Comedy McGinty's Public House (7/18-9/05) |
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Timbuktu Comedy Club in Hanover MD Timbuktu Restaurant (7/24-7/25) |
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Oh Crit! Maryland Ensemble Theatre (7/24-7/24) |
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The Comedy Pigs Maryland Ensemble Theatre (7/31-7/31) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Baltimore (8/15-8/15) |
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The Comedy Pigs Highwire Center (8/08-8/08) |