Performing Arts in Frederick, MD
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.
Experience Frederick's "Theater Row" 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
A MET Original Premiere Directed by Ray Hatch A MET Premiere, in collaboration with AARCH and The Maryland Room at C. Burr Arts Library, exploring the rich and colorful history of the African American community in Frederick.
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre
- Recurring monthly on the 1st Friday
The Comedy Pigs return for their 30th anniversary season! Catch them at Maryland Ensemble Theatre ever first Friday and Saturday from October through June.
Who were the enslaved ironworkers of Catoctin Furnace? What happened to their community? The Smithsonian Channel’s America’s Hidden Stories: Forged in Slavery reveals a startling new picture of slavery and the role that skilled African Americans played in America’s Industrial…
Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes Rating: N/A Cast: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Iam Hunter Synopsis: Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre
- Recurring monthly on the 3rd Friday
Celebrate with this D & D inspired improv comedy crew at Maryland Ensemble Theatre for their 5th anniversary!
Folk music legend Tom Paxton joins songwriting friends Jon Vezner and Don Henry for an unforgettable night!
Grammy winning guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli brings his new album and tour, Stage & Screen , along with his remarkable new trio, bassist Mike Karn and pianist Isaiah J. Thompson, to explore other sources for the most immortal songs of the past century: the Broadway…
Disney and Pixar's Finding Nemo, JR . Based on the 2003 Disney / Pixar film Finding Nemo written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and directed by Andrew StantonDisney and Pixar's Finding Nemo, JR . Book, Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez…
Tommy James and the Shondells are ready to turn back the clock, with their record-breaking music from the height of the 1960s. It’s been over 50 years since the release of the 1966 debut Hanky Panky , but the band continues to impress audiences across the nation with its…
SUNDAY • November 19 • 3:00 PM Double your musical delight with FCC music faculty soprano Mary Gresock and baritone David Loy as they share a potpourri of familiar and not so familiar duets in varying musical styles. From Mozart to Musical Theatre, duets from such works as The…