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Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is wrapping up its 2012-13, 15th anniversary mainstage season with a new World Premiere comedy Pickle My Monkey beginning May 16. Like David Mamet teaming up with the Marx Brothers to write their own apocalyptic version of The Comedy of Errors, Pickle My Monkey is a truly surreal farce. Sexy, madcap, odd, and modern, the show featuring a loaded gun, a briefcase full of cash and a talking chimp, promises to be inventive, original, and fun! Maryland Ensemble Theatre Artistic Director, Tad Janes, directs the script by MET company members Lisa Burl, Kevin Cole and Matt Lee. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is wrapping up its 2012-13, 15th anniversary mainstage season with a new World Premiere comedy Pickle My Monkey beginning May 16. Like David Mamet teaming up with the Marx Brothers to write their own apocalyptic version of The Comedy of Errors, Pickle My Monkey is a truly surreal farce. Sexy, madcap, odd, and modern, the show featuring a loaded gun, a briefcase full of cash and a talking chimp, promises to be inventive, original, and fun! Maryland Ensemble Theatre Artistic Director, Tad Janes, directs the script by MET company members Lisa Burl, Kevin Cole and Matt Lee.

The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's (MET) sketch and improv troupe, is back in primetime with shows on May 3 and 4 at 9pm at MET.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) presents another installment of the surreal, sci-fi horror extravaganza that is the Laugh Station series. In Laugh Station: Revelation, a mysterious stranger arrives aboard Laugh Station preaching a message of peace, harmony and everlasting life. Soon enough, the entire crew has been brainwashed into joining a futuristic space cult! All hell breaks loose (literally) when the cult splits into two factions who want to annihilate each other. Check out the cast in the photos below!

Twenty years ago on this day, April 3, 1993, one hundred and six ticket holders crammed into the Olde Town Tavern back room for the very first Comedy Pigs show! The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre'ssketch and improv troupe, is still going strong all these years later. After twenty years they think they've finally got the hang of it but you can be the judge at their next shows on April 13 and 20 at 10:30pm. The April shows will follow the main stage show, Finally Heard: Feminine Heroes of an Uncivil War. This will be troupe members Carly Ball, Gary Baker, Courtney McLaughlin, Chris 'C-Mo' Molloy, Anne Raugh, Franky Russell, Jeff Schnorr, Laura Stark and Julie Williams only two performances in April.

The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's sketch and improv troupe, have added a show to their schedule. The new show will follow Truthpaste: A Blotto Biography, MET's Artistic Director's Tad Janes' one-man show on March 16. The 8pm performance of Truthpaste will be followed by a 10pm Comedy Pigs improv show. The Comedy Pigs are in the midst of celebrating their 20th Anniversary Season. This will be troupe members Carly Ball, Gary Baker, Courtney McLaughlin, Chris 'C-Mo' Molloy, Anne Raugh, Franky Russell, Jeff Schnorr, Laura Stark and Julie Williams only performance in March.

The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's sketch and improv troupe, return to late night at the MET, following their successful prime-time sketch shows in January. In the midst of celebrating their 20th Anniversary Season, troupe members Carly Ball, Gary Baker, Courtney McLaughlin, Chris 'C-Mo' Molloy, Anne Raugh, Franky Russell, Jeff Schnorr,Laura Stark and Julie Williams will bring the funny tonight, February 16 and 23 at 10:30pm following performances of The Glass Menagerie.

The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's sketch and improv troupe, return to late night at the MET, following their successful prime-time sketch shows in January. In the midst of celebrating their 20th Anniversary Season, troupe members Carly Ball, Gary Baker, Courtney McLaughlin, Chris 'C-Mo' Molloy, Anne Raugh, Franky Russell, Jeff Schnorr,Laura Stark and Julie Williams will bring the funny February 16 and 23 at 10:30pm following performances of The Glass Menagerie.

The Maryland Ensemble Theatre is proud to present the fourth show in its fifteenth anniversary season: Tennessee Williams' much-lauded classic, The Glass Menagerie. The Glass Menagerie is an American masterpiece that announced the presence of one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th Century.

The Maryland Ensemble Theatre presents the fourth show in its fifteenth anniversary season: Tennessee Williams' much-lauded classic, The Glass Menagerie. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

The Maryland Ensemble Theatre will present the fourth show in its fifteenth anniversary season: Tennessee Williams' much-lauded classic, The Glass Menagerie. The Glass Menagerie is an American masterpiece that announced the presence of one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th Century. Williams' semi-autobiographical heartbreaking yet often humorous memory play about a young struggling poet and his tenuous relationships with his overbearing mother and his fragile sister is an emotionally charged portrait of hope in 1930s St. Louis that is timeless in its ability to capture the imagination and hearts of audiences.

The Maryland Ensemble Theatre will present the fourth show in its fifteenth anniversary season: Tennessee Williams' much-lauded classic, The Glass Menagerie. The Glass Menagerie is an American masterpiece that announced the presence of one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th Century. Williams' semi-autobiographical heartbreaking yet often humorous memory play about a young struggling poet and his tenuous relationships with his overbearing mother and his fragile sister is an emotionally charged portrait of hope in 1930s St. Louis that is timeless in its ability to capture the imagination and hearts of audiences.

Disappointed the world didn't come to an end? The Comedy Pigs feel your pain. The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's sketch and improv troupe, normally found playing late night at the MET, are taking the stage at 8pm for two weekends in January with a sketch show that completely ignores the larger issues of the day and focuses on those petty, annoying little incidents that lead us to fantasize about the Apocalypse.

Disappointed the world didn't come to an end? The Comedy Pigs feel your pain. The Comedy Pigs, Maryland Ensemble Theatre's sketch and improv troupe, normally found playing late night at the MET, are taking the stage at 8pm for two weekends in January with a sketch show that completely ignores the larger issues of the day and focuses on those petty, annoying little incidents that lead us to fantasize about the Apocalypse.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) continues its fifteeenth anniversary season this December with a festive new take on a holiday classic with, It's A Wonderful LIfe: A Live Radio Play. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) continues its fifteeenth anniversary season this December with a festive new take on a holiday classic with, It's A Wonderful LIfe: A Live Radio Play. This award-winning adaptation brings Bedford Falls to life by way of an on stage 1940s radio broadcast, and you're invited to be a member of the live studio audience! Since its premier in 1996 playwright Joe Landry's It's A Wonderful LIfe: A Live Radio Play has been produced hundreds of times across the US and been heralded as, 'One of the best holiday shows around.' (Chicago Sun-Times). The story, true to Frank Capra's 1946 film classic starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, is told by six actors performing dozen of characters and all the foley sound effects in traditional old-fashioned radio style.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present another installment of the surreal, sci-fi horror extravaganza that is the Laugh Station series. In Laugh Station: Massacre, it's Halloween aboard the Laugh Station and the crew is ready to party. Little do they realize their costume party falls on the tenth anniversary of a mysterious and tragic accident... and that a knife-wielding, homicidal psychopath is stalking the ship! Can the crew stop this madman before they're picked off one by one in the most grisly possibly fashion? ... Probably not! Join us for the blood-soaked fourth installment of the outrageous Laugh Station series. It's equal parts 80's teen slasher movie and raunchy screwball comedy. Bring your ponchos to this one folks! It's gonna be messy and it probably goes without saying but the show is intended for mature audiences only.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present another installment of the surreal, sci-fi horror extravaganza that is the Laugh Station series. In Laugh Station: Massacre, it's Halloween aboard the Laugh Station and the crew is ready to party. Little do they realize their costume party falls on the tenth anniversary of a mysterious and tragic accident... and that a knife-wielding, homicidal psychopath is stalking the ship! Can the crew stop this madman before they're picked off one by one in the most grisly possibly fashion? ... Probably not! Join us for the blood-soaked fourth installment of the outrageous Laugh Station series. It's equal parts 80's teen slasher movie and raunchy screwball comedy. Bring your ponchos to this one folks! It's gonna be messy and it probably goes without saying but the show is intended for mature audiences only.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre presents Laugh Station: Massacre as part of its MET-X series, created to expand the collective horizons of the MET ensemble and its audience. Performances are November 9 & 10 at 11:00 p.m. at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (31 W Patrick St. Frederick) located in the historic FSK Hotel. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased by phone at (301) 694-4744, online at marylandensemble.org, or in person at the MET box office. The show is intended for mature audience only. BroadwayWorld has a first look below.