The Way Out
THE WAY OUT
Quarry Theatre
Conceived & Directed by Ryan Clark
Music Composed by Patrick Alexander
August 23 – 31
THE WAY OUT
Quarry Theatre
Conceived & Directed by Ryan Clark
Music Composed by Patrick Alexander
August 23 – 31
Never taken an improv class before? Well now is your chance to try it out with experienced BIG instructors!
This introductory workshop is designed to give potential students an opportunity to experience what a class is like before committing to a full course.
Through simple, fun and supportive games, participants will explore basic concepts like playfulness, listening and agreement – all in a safe and comfortable group setting geared specifically toward those who are new to improv.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the National Electronics Museum is hosting a temporary exhibit, "The Pace Collection: Unique and Rarely Seen NASA Apollo Mission Hardware". The exhibit features an eclectic mix of artifacts from a private collection. Don’t forget the Museum also has on permanent display the Westinghouse Apollo XI lunar TV camera. The exhibit is free with paid museum admission. Open 10 July through 15 October 2019.
Every Tuesday night, check out BIG house performers as they rock the classic long-form improv format known as The Harold. Three of BIG's six Harold Night teams will take the stage every week to blow. your. ever-loving. minds.
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter, the first retrospective of the artist’s career in over thirty years. Drawn from his archive at UMBC, the 55 works in this exhibition created between 1962 and 2006 highlight Fichter’s exploration of the human condition across photography, printmaking, and painting. Fichter employs shifting moods and mediums as well as wit, humor, and satire to deliver trenchant critiques of war, nuclear proliferation, and environmental disaster.
This exhibition is on view through March 2020. The MdHS museum is open Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm, and on Sundays, 12 pm-5 pm.
The exhibition features one-of-a-kind appliqué quilts created by Baltimore-native Mimi Dietrich. Ms. Dietrich is one of Maryland’s and the nation’s most accomplished quilters. In 2015 she was inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana. “Hometown Girl” tells Ms. Dietrich’s story as a life-long Marylander and Baltimore native, and draws inspiration from the many students she has taught over her 35-year career.
No need to cook on Wednesdays this summer! Food Trucks are coming to Ascension Lutheran Church's parking lot every Wednesdays from 5-8 pm. Each month we'll be donating profits to a different organization supporting those in need in our community. See you on the lot!
There are no easy answers in this hard-hitting courtroom drama revealing the trauma of life in the Middle East. After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention. Nominated for 2017 Foreign Language Film Oscar. (In Lebanese Arabic with English subtitles)
(2019 Version)- For Tim Burton, Danny DeVito and Michael Keaton fans, a new Disney live-action version of the 1941 Disney classic. Struggling circus owner Max Medici enlists a former star and his two children to care for Dumbo, a baby elephant born with oversized ears. When the family discovers that the animal can fly, it soon becomes the main attraction — bringing in huge audiences and revitalizing the run-down circus.
Interview show BIG Time invites the influential people behind the businesses, charities, and city you love. Their stories inspire comedy!
How do you know when you've truly succeeded? The answer is when the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) invites you to have your life memorialized in a series of made up, totally unprepared comedy scenes celebrating you! Come join a hand picked cast of BIG's best improvisers as they comedically revere some of Baltimore's most important movers and shakers.
Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) offers FREE COMEDY SHOWS every night of the week!
Casually Dope invites you to start your Saturday night with us. Turning the stories of our community into comedy, each show we'll invite a guest or just chop it up with audience and use those discussions to create a show like none other. You might learn something, you might not, but you'll definitely leave full of laughter.
UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Spectrum: 2019 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, featuring artworks by Dan Bailey, Steve Bradley, Cathy Cook, Jules Rosskam,Evan Tedlock, and Vin Grabill. Spectrumprovides an in-depth exploration of recent research projects in film, video, photography, sound, installation, and sculpture by selected members of UMBC’s Department of Visual Arts.
Celebrated performance artist Karen Finley presents Venus in Retrograde, a performance in two parts — Grabbing Pussy and Parts Known — that expands on Finley’s career-long pursuit of performatively articulating the injustices committed by the U.S. government and society at large. The performance examines loss of love, dignity, and humanity, and issues a call to beat back with an exquisite heart. Standing against a backdrop of film projections, Finley narrates a poetic call to action in resistance to today’s times.
Put on your bobby socks, roll up your old blues jeans and cruise into the 50’s and 60’s with ‘The Cruisers’. Lets twist and shout just like in the good old days.
Featuring Tribute Artists:
*The Big Bopper-Gary Baker was inducted into the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame in May 2014. He’s been taking audiences to The Hop with his Rockin’ Around The Jukebox Show performing in MD., DE, PA and NJ.
Heralded by The New York Times as “a full-tilt lesbian/bi-curious/genderqueer/Shakespearean comedy for everyone,” Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties follows five different women named Betty as they collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “Thea-Tah.” Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something; and Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined.
National performer Jon Perry has portrayed Paul McCartney in Theaters and Casinos across the Globe, and performs on Norwegian Cruises. So reminiscent of the Beatle in his 20’s, people remark how much he resembles the Pop Icon before he even takes the stage in full costume. Jon has had the honor of performing for Ruth and Angie McCartney, and Martina McBride, and has shared the stage with Alan White, Lennon’s Drummer on Imagine and of Yes fame.
The Bach you know is only the beginning.
Join acclaimed cellist Juliana Soltis at Creative Alliance as she breaks with 200 years of tradition to explore the long-lost practice of spontaneous improvisation in Johann Sebastian Bach's beloved Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.
Performed entirely on historial instruments, including the rarely-heard 5-string violoncello piccolo, these are the Bach cello suites as they have not been played in centuries – and a musical experience you won't soon forget.
The intertwining stories in The Great Believerstake us through the heartbreak of 80’s and the chaos of the modern world, as characters struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
The UMBC Humanities Forum presents Mayra Santos-Febres, professor of creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, who will speak on “The Fractal Caribbean: New Literatures of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic.”
Learn the basics of crochet in this fun two hour workshop brought to you by the lovely “Stitch Sages” at Lovelyarns, Baltimore’s Favorite Yarn Store! Leave with the skills to make your own crochet project! All materials are included and you will be able to keep your yarn and hook!