(May. 15 12:54 PM) - The Vagabond Players’ final production of its 96th season, Souvenir: A Fantasia On the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins written by Stephen Temperley and directed by Roy Hammond, opens June 1 and runs weekends through July 1.

(May. 15 7:04 AM) - Glass Mind Theatre's Brainstorm festival is back, this year with a new twist! Playwrights will be teaming up to tackle 5 brand-new short plays inspired by the Baltimore community. The twist? Each playwright chose a submitted location and were tasked with creating half a play either starting in said location, or ending there. Brainstorm 3: Mind the Gap runs June 1 – June 17, 2012 at Load of Fun Theatre (120 West North Avenue, Baltimore), on Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm.

(May. 14 6:33 PM) - Generous Company’s WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory celebrates its 16th birthday at CENTERSTAGE in June 2012, and will welcome six playwrights to the 2012 Lab.

(May. 14 2:12 PM) - Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present an original ensemble created production for the Fredneck in all of us, The All New Grand Ole Hee Haw Hootenanny Hoedown Jamboree.

(May. 14 12:30 AM) - CENTERSTAGE and Baltimore Open Theatre are joining forces and creating a platform for Baltimore performing artists to showcase, workshop, and explore new artistic ideas—beer in hand. These events will be hosted at Liam Flynn’s Ale House, 22 W. North Avenue, and are free and open to the public.

(May. 14 12:30 AM) - In the coming weeks, Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is holding auditions for three very different projects, including two World Premiere productions. The first of which will be presented as part of MET's series, MET-X, created to expand the collective horizons of the MET ensemble and its audience. The other World Premiere is a community collaboration between MET, Frederick Community College and Hood College that is looking to cast a large ensemble of actors to occupy FCC's Kussmaul Theater this August. Last but not least the MET's resident improv & sketch group, The Comedy Pigs, is hoping to pick up some new players as they enter their twentieth season. These three very disparate projects cast a large net that will offer performers of all levels of experience a chance to seize the spotlight.

(May. 12 6:47 PM) - Silhouette Stages, a non-profit community theater group in Howard County, has announced its spring production, Stephen Sondheim’s Company, nominated for fourteen Tony Awards. Company is a meditation on modern couples seen through the story of Bobby, a single man seeking love, his three gal pals, and the good and crazy married couples who are his best friends.

(May. 12 12:30 AM) - Single Carrot Theatre is opening its doors for its sixth annual gala. This year’s theme? Gold Rush. “We thought it was appropriate,” says gala committee member Jessica Garrett. “They certainly knew how to party in the old west, and so do we. Why not take the theme and run with it?” she added.

(May. 11 1:32 PM) - BroadwayWorld Seattle was granted EXCLUSIVE access to Kristin Chenoweth's debut performance of her new (and first ever) tour, which opened in Seattle on Wednesday night ... and received a whopping NINE standing ovations for a show unlike we had ever seen.

(May. 10 9:52 PM) - Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present The Comedy Pigs, the improv comedy troupe in three brand new shows this May 18 & 19 and June 2 at 10:30pm

(May. 10 2:53 PM) - The No Boundaries theatre troupe, in cooperation with the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks and the Howard County Arts Council, is pleased to present the classic Broadway musical, Anything Goes.

(May. 10 1:21 PM) - Pumpkin Theatre closes out its 44th Season “What’s in a Name?” with YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN.

(May. 9 3:57 PM) - "Let My People Go" given a new meaning in this terrific production

(May. 8 10:09 AM) - Howard County–based Chesapeake Shakespeare Company today announces the acquisition of the historic Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company building in downtown Baltimore, which will serve as its second home and establish a new cultural center for live performances of Shakespeare and other classics just two blocks from the city’s celebrated Inner Harbor.

(May. 8 9:30 AM) - Single Carrot Theatre will closes it’s 5th season with an exploration of the mythology and mystery of sexuality. FOOT OF WATER, plays June 8th - July 8th , 2012 with previews June 6th and June 7th.

(May. 7 10:03 PM) - Producing Artistic Director Michael Stebbins has announced the 2012-13 season lineup for Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC).

(May. 7 5:33 PM) - Now at the Fells Point Corner Theater, Lynn Nottage's RUINED is a haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war.

(May. 7 3:34 PM) - A British talk show host takes on a former U.S. President in The Vagabond Players' production of "Frost/Nixon."