Performing Arts in Frederick, MD
Downtown Frederick is a designated Arts & Entertainment District. The city has an extensive number of performance arts companies and venues featuring a wide variety of live entertainment.
Experience Frederick's Theater District with the Weinberg Center for the Arts, Maryland Ensemble Theatre, and New Spire Stages to experience world-class performances by artists from all over the world.
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.
Attend these upcoming performances
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella - The Broadway Musical is the 2013 Broadway adaptation of the classic musical that tells the timeless story of a kind and mistreated young woman who, with the help of her Fairy Godmother, is able to attend the royal ball where she captivates the…
Late Nite Catechism is an uproariously funny play that takes the audience back to their youth. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of “students.” Throughout the course of the class the benevolent instructor rewards the “students” for correct answers with…
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre
- Recurring daily
When James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that grows a tremendous peach, rolls into the ocean and launches a journey of enormous proportions. James befriends a collection of singing insects that ride the giant piece…
Join us for the 36th annual Frederick Women’s Distance Festival 5k, presented by the Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club. Net proceeds are donated to the Women's Giving Circle of Frederick County, assisting local women in need.
Join us for an unforgettable evening at the Weinberg Center for the Arts as we crown the next Miss Maryland Volunteer. Presented by the Miss Maryland Volunteer Organization, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering young women through educational scholarships, encouraging…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of Hedwig Robinson – an internationally-ignored, gender-bending punk rock goddess from the other side of the Iron Curtain. Following a massive scandal involving the world-famous rock star who stole her songs, Hedwig embarks on a…
- Sky Stage
- Recurring monthly on the 3rd Wednesday
Dance to Latin beats at this popular monthly event! Starts with an approximately 30-minute salsa lesson at 7pm by instructors from Frederick Salsa. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, May through October. Beer/Wine/Sangria available for 21+ with ID.
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre
- Recurring weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
It’s 1974 and the hit movie JAWS is being filmed. Well, it would be, if the prop shark wasn’t a mechanical mess. In this laugh-out-loud comedy, testy, feuding costars Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider take center stage as booze flows, egos clash, and tempers flare…
Holmes is on the case as the male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Audiences watch as our intrepid investigators try to…
GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL has been thrilling audiences and earning raves from critics throughout North America since it began touring after its sensational Off-Broadway debut. This touching and hilarious ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ musical takes audiences on a journey into the lives of a…