The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland is an integrated arts laboratory where artists, arts scholars, students and arts administrators collaborate to spark inspiration and build a better future for the arts. As an intellectually curious and socially conscious community, The Clarice leverages creativity, scholarship, innovation and community engagement across the arts to foster expression, generate curiosity and inspire a greater good.
Our program seeks to make education interactive and fun. In our skit A Money Story, Alexander and Ava are adults talking about their young lives. Alexander and Ava have been friends since preschool. Life has offered them several opportunities to be successful. During A Money Story, they discuss how the choices they made in elementary school and high school have impacted their adult life from a financial aspect. A Money Story combines high energy comedy with satire and drama teaching students about financial literacy in a theatrical, fun way. The purpose of A Money Story is to provide an
Moving History teaches the story of African American people through kinetic education and performance programs. As a practical solution to increase the attention to black history in educational curriculums, the Moving History initiative works to bring the story of African Americans to students and communities through the Arts.
A group of Maryland Composers, centered in Baltimore, who sponsor performances of their own works, often newly composed.
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts produces and curates theatrical performance for the diverse audiences in our community, and educates, learns from, supports and inspires a more inclusive generation of theater-makers.
Founded in 2007, Encore Creativity for Older Adults has more than 1,200 singers in 26 in-person ensembles across the nation, including Chorales and ROCKS programs and Sentimental Journey Singers, a choir for those with early Alzheimer’s and memory impairments, a vibrant online university, plus summer camp, winter retreat, and travel abroad programs. Encore is committed to its mission to provide an excellent and accessible arts education program for older adults regardless of ability or experience.
The Kids In Showbiz / RISE Media Business and Technical Training School was created for the purpose of providing a world-class education as a non-profit community-based training school serving the people of the Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and inner-city Baltimore Maryland areas.
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre is a vibrant, local theatre dedicated to the performing arts. Located in the Civic Center, this 446-seat theatre boasts over 100 performances a year.
Experience a captivating musical by the Rockville Musical Theatre, become moved by the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, or lose yourself in the spellbinding Rockville Civic Ballet. At the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, there is truly something for everyone.
Our vision is to lead a thriving cultural ecosystem in Downtown Columbia where our local, regional, and global communities come together to celebrate the best of our cultures and experience the joy and wonder of the arts. Through a constellation of places and programs, Downtown Columbia is a place where art happens regularly, spontaneously, and inclusively.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is the leading classical theatre company in Maryland, offering vibrant performances that blow the dust off of Shakespeare and delight its patrons. One of the six largest theatre companies in the state, CSC serves diverse audiences with funny, moving, rousing mainstage seasons, a vigorous education program that serves over 16,000 students annually in both theatre and the classroom, and a growing community engagement effort.