Downtown Frederick has been designated as an Arts & Entertainment District. The city has an extensive number of performance arts companies and venues featuring a wide variety of live entertainment. Performance arts offerings are scheduled each weekend and many weekday evenings as well. Time your visit to coincide with a musical, dance, or theatrical entertainment.
Award-winning trompe l'oeil mural depicts the spirit of community. This large-scale mural project transformed a plain concrete bridge into the permanent illusion of an old, ivy-covered stone bridge. Carroll Street Bridge over Carroll Creek between E. Patrick & E. All Saints Sts. at creek level.
East Patrick & East All Saints Sts. Frederick, MD 21701
Housed in the renovated Mountain City Mill building, the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center is a non-profit arts education facility, featuring art instruction, exhibitions and special programs. The center is a 30,000 square foot flagship of the arts. Artwork by regional artists is for sale in the gift gallery. Items include paintings, prints, jewelry, woodworking, ceramics and much more. Prices range from $3 to $300. All art is created by Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center members.
The Frederick Arts Council's mission is to serve as the primary catalyst and advocate for arts opportunities in the county. The Cultural Arts Center is a 14,000 square foot community arts center that houses a black box theater, art gallery, and event hall.
Community theater organization that is open to all interested parties for performance, production, or administrative opportunities. Performs three stage shows each season, Sept to July, plus one spring fundraiser. Call 240-315-3855 for tickets or check website for information on current activities and shows. Volunteers are welcome!
Maryland Ensemble Theatre features live, professional performances of contemporary and original works ranging from comedy to drama to musicals virtually every weekend. Professional children's theater on weekend afternoons. Actor training classes.
The Maryland Shakespeare Festival is a professional, non-profit regional theater company. For a decade, Maryland Shakespeare Festival has been playing Shakespeare the way Shakespeare and his company played it---bold, passionate and sometimes rowdy! For a decade our Good Will Summer Tour has offered joyous, casual, free performances in parks across Maryland with live music and a festival atmosphere for the entire family. MSF is the only theater in the Frederick area working under an Equity contract (the national union of professional actors and stage managers.) The Maryland Shakespeare Festival also employs some of the most respected designers in the Mid-Atlantic region, creating productions at the highest artistic levels. From October to April MSF offers our Bare Bard Series (Shakespeare without the trimmings) in our performance hall in Frederick. We draw professional artists from around the country for our unique training in original Shakespearean practices that generates our signature performances of Shakespeare’s plays. MSF and the Bare Bard Series are recognized by Shakespearean artists as a cutting-edge training ground for classical theater and a center for scholarship and experimentation. We also train middle-school and high- school students in our Riotous Youth program. These classes culminate in public performances each spring and fall. More than 10,000 other students benefit annually from the Shakespeare Alive! program, which takes professional performances and acting workshops to schools around the state.
Live musical theater awaits you at Toby's Dinner Theatre! With two locations 5625 O'Donnell St., Baltimore and 5900 Symphony Woods Rd. Columbia, you are sure to be impressed with all that the theaters have to offer. Maryland's destination of unforgettable live theater!
The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children’s Theatre is one of the area’s premiere entertainment venues combining fantastic dining with live theatre performances. Since it first opened in 1995, WOB has been a leader in the area’s performing arts community. Frederick’s only dinner theatre, WOB is open year-round, producing five Broadway-style shows each season. If you are looking for something fun that the whole family can enjoy, WOB is also home to the area’s only children’s lunch theatre which brings popular children’s characters to life on the stage. Way Off Broadway has something for everyone! It’s your ticket to Broadway in Western Maryland!
The Weinberg Center is a showcase for performing arts in Frederick that enhances our area’s cultural life. Frederick's historic 1926 movie palace is home to year-round quality entertainment: professional music, dance, and theater; classic movies and family entertainment.
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