News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
The Garfield Center has announced the 2024 Playmakers Director and production title and the date of open registration for this summer’s camp. For scheduling reasons, the camp starts a little earlier this year, with the first date of camp beginning June 24th 2024 and the camp-ending performance weekend on July 19, 20 and 21. A […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – Registration for both the Garfield Center For The Arts summer camps, MUSICmakers and Playmakers, can be made online at garfieldcenter.org/camps. MUSICmakers will have similarities to Musicamp, the music-theatre program offered by the Garfield over the past several years. Unlike scripted productions in past camps, MUSICmakers will produce a completely new work that […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – On August 23rd 2019 director Bonnie Hill will be opening a new show at the Garfield Center for the Arts; Annie Baker’s, Circle Mirror Transformation. The play takes place in Shirley, Vermont, where Marty, an acting teacher, holds an “Adult Creative Drama” class at the local community center. The people who sign […]
Continue ReadingChestertown – The Garfield Center for the Arts closes its 2018 season of plays with Ken & Jack Ludwig’s Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol. This 45-minute reimagining of Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, is perfect for young families or those young at heart who believe in the magic of Christmas. Tiny Tim (John Crook) hatches a […]
Continue ReadingThe Garfield Center for the Arts is hosting a new two-day workshop this summer for ages 8-80, focusing on the study of music theory. The workshop will be lead by Julie Lawrence, the director of MUSICAMP, the Chester River Youth Choir and the Chester River Chorale. Julie also serves on the Garfield Center’s board of […]
Continue ReadingOn April 27th 2018 director Shelagh Grasso and musical director Julie Lawrence will be opening a new musical at the Garfield Center for the Arts; Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This will be the first musical that the Garfield Center has produced since Garfield Executive Director Tess […]
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