Community Calendar

The Rotunda Welcomes Back Popular Family-Friendly Concert Series this May
3rd Annual Rotunda Rocks Begins Friday, May 2 and Runs Every Friday through Friday, October 3

Grab a blanket or dust off your favorite portable chair and head on over to Hampden this spring for the return of the popular family-friendly concert series, the 3rd Annual Rotunda Rocks. This FREE weekly concert series, presented by MCB Real Estate, features live music on the Plaza and a street festival atmosphere with delicious local food and drinks, fun games and local vendors and will take place Fridays, 6-9 p.m. beginning May 2 and running until October 3. (711 West 40th Street). Whether you like rock n ’roll, folk, bluegrass, Indie, Latin, Celtic or reggae music, there is something for everyone and the event is open to the public. Pets are welcome and a portion of proceeds from beverage sales benefits the Maryland SPCA. For more information, log onto Rotunda Rocks | The Rotunda (rotundabaltimore.com) or call 410-662-0104.

Support Baltimore Clayworks’ educational programs, artist residencies, and community partnerships by purchasing ceramic seconds generously donated by artists from across our region. Every piece you take home helps us sustain a welcoming, creative space where all people can experience the joy of clay.
Friday, June 12, 2026 • 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Ticketed event: $45 Members / $50 Non-Members / $50 at the door

Food, fun, and first dibs. Enjoy refreshments while you browse hundreds of beautifully crafted seconds at incredible prices.

Your Preview Party ticket includes:

Early access to the entire Seconds Sale collection
Craft beer from Union Craft Brewing and a variety of wines
Complimentary light bites

EVERY BRILLIANT THING

BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN and JONNY DONAHOE
DIRECTED BY TAD JANES

MAY 15 – JUNE 14

Preview May 14
ASL Interpreted Performance May 22

At once a transcendent coming-of-age tale and a call to reach out to each other, Every Brilliant Thing is a warm-hearted, hilarious, heart-wrenching play about how depression can affect a family, and the lengths we will go for those we love.

The View Upstairs is a fiercely original, soul-stirring tribute to queer history, community, and resilience. With a lush, genre-blending score by Max Vernon, this boundary-pushing work transports audiences to 1973 New Orleans and into the Upstairs Lounge—a vibrant gay bar and haven for queer joy, chosen family, and radical self-expression.

Inspired by the true story of the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ+ community in U.S. history prior to the Pulse Nightclub tragedy, The View Upstairs reclaims a moment in our collective history many tried to erase. It invites us to gather in solidarity with those we lost, and challenges us to confront what allowed the world to look away.

The View Upstairs presented at the Baltimore Theatre Project as part of our Season of Survival asks what it means to heal, to protect one another, and to endure in the face of violence and erasure.

Don’t miss this haunting, defiant, and life-affirming musical that reminds us survival is not just resistance—it’s remembering, loving, and choosing each other again and again.

MET Comedy Nights Improv comedy Festival is BACK! Join us for a weekend of fun and laughter as we kick off the comedy season (IN OUR NEW KEY STAGE) with a bang. The show will feature members from The Comedy Pigs, Oh Crit, That’s What She Said, Off Key: An improvised musical and Key City Improv. It will also feature surprise performances from some of our specialty MET Comedy Night shows. Don’t miss this celebration of comedy and debut performance in our new space!

THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Continues Vagabond Players’ 110th Season
Apr. 10 – May 3, 2026
Before hashtags and headlines, there was Heidi—searching for connection, purpose and a place in a rapidly changing world. This spring, Vagabond Players brings Wendy Wasserstein’s THE HEIDI CHRONICLES to the stage, directed by Lee Conderacci in her Vagabond Players debut.
In this sparkling and oh so relevant comedy, art historian Heidi Holland and her friends travel from the 1960s through the 1980s making life-changing choices relating to dating, mating and career paths. Will the brilliant and perceptive Heidi find the partner of her dreams? Do “women’s libbers” consider Heidi’s decision about having a child to be a betrayal? Can Heidi attain the fulfillment that she—and millions of other women—fought for? Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, The Heidi Chronicles remains a sharp, insightful and deeply relatable look at friendship, feminism and the search for meaning and continues to serve as a reminder of what’s been accomplished and how much remains to be achieved.
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES runs April 10 – May 3, 2026, with performances Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. And check out a special “Thursdays on Broadway” performance April 30 at 8 p.m. when all tickets are just $12.
For tickets, cast and show info visit www.vagabondplayers.org. Special discounts and group rates are available online.

The Potomac Playmakers is pleased to present its final show for the 2025-2026 season. Sylvia by A.R. Gurney, is a romantic comedy about a man in a mid-life crisis, his dog, his wife, and about the role of love in the modern world.
Directed by Susan Kleit with Lisa Hatch as Assistant Director, with kind permission of Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Greg and Kate, recent empty nesters, have finally moved back into New York City from the suburbs to recharge their lives, including Kate’s previously paused but now resurging career. Greg, a middle-aged commodities trader with a growing disenchantment for his career, disrupts the couple’s relational dynamics by bringing home the stray dog Sylvia. Sylvia demonstrates her unconditional love for Greg. This affection is a welcome relief from both the cold business of his work as well as the new dynamic of a partner embarking on her new career.
Sylvia’s arrival is an unwelcome surprise for Kate and, despite her objections, remains with Greg. Sylvia fills an emotional void for Greg that no human has filled. It takes no time for the unique bond between Greg and Sylvia to wear thin on Kate. Kate, Greg, and Sylvia need to navigate their respective roles in this new pack.

The holidays already are here and your shopping isn’t finished? Or even started? What to give special friends who say they don’t need anything? Church Hill Theatre has an easy and thoughtful suggestion. Consider a 2026 Season Package—with 5 tickets for the price of 4. You get to choose the plays and the dates.

The coming 2026 season opens in March with a Tennessee Williams classic, The Glass Menagerie, and closes in December with A Christmas Carol. In between, there is a great choice of musicals, comedies and more. Consider Between the Lines, an April musical featuring our talented teens, the major June production of Chicago, or the September musical Something’s Afoot, a spoof of British mystery stories. And who could pass on the spooky November show, The Transylvanian Clockworks?

This special $100 package will make a memorable gift and support a cherished local institution. And if you have been very good all through the year, consider treating yourself to an entire season of outstanding shows. This package is available through the CHT office, at 410-556-6003 or online at churchhilltheatre.org.