Chestertown, MD – This Friday, June 7th, 2019 Haint Blue is coming to the Garfield Center for the Arts from their native Baltimore. The Garfield has once again joined forces with Rock Hall’s home for live music, The Mainstay, to bring this group to Chestertown for a night of Baltimore folk and Americana. “There’s folk […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – Auditions for Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winning play will be held at The Garfield Center for the Arts on Tuesday and Thursday, June 4th and 6th at 6PM, and Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 10AM. Directed by Bonnie Hill, the play runs three weekends from August 21st – September 8th […]
Continue ReadingDear Friends of the Garfield, It is with great pride and tremendous gratitude that we share with you that we have surpassed our goal of $10,000 through our Broadway by the River Gala Fundraiser! We are truly humbled by the generosity of this community, and especially to you for making Broadway by the River such […]
Continue ReadingThe Chester River Youth Choir invites you to a celebration of American music on May 17th, 2019 with a concert at the Garfield Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. Under the direction Julie Lawrence, and accompanied on piano by Michelle Sensenig, the group will perform for FREE, with donations to the Chester River Youth Choir […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – The Garfield Center for the Arts is accepting applications for a director for the Chester River Youth Choir. Qualified applicants should be prepared to run weekly rehearsals, communicate with parents, choose appropriate repertoire for children’s treble voices ages 7-17, and be able to play piano along to 3-part voicing and some accompaniments. […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – The spring installment of the Garfield’s Educational Outreach Program features Mark H. Rooney, described as “the world’s most dangerous half-Scottish/half-Japanese solo taiko artist”, in a performance that is open to the public on May 28th 2019 at 10:30am. Taiko is a dynamic form of full-body drumming based in Japanese tradition. Based in […]
Continue ReadingDear Friends of the Garfield, Due to circumstances beyond our control, our production of Where the Wild Things Are will only be running from April 26-28. We would like to encourage the community to plan on attending one of the three performances, on Friday and Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm. If you have […]
Continue ReadingChestertown – The Garfield Center for the Arts is holding open auditions for their 15th annual 10-minute play festival, Short Attention Span Theatre. Auditions will take place on the following dates: Tuesday, April 30 @ 6pm Thursday, May 2 @ 6pm Saturday, May 4 @ 11am Actors should be prepared to do cold readings from […]
Continue ReadingOn April 26th 2019 director Bee Betley will be opening a new show at the Garfield Center for the Arts; an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. A veteran of local theatre, this is Betley’s second full-length production since directing The Little Prince in 2018. Feeling misunderstood at home […]
Continue ReadingThe Garfield Center for the Arts will be pulling out the popcorn this Friday, April 12th for a 7pm screening of the film, The Gold Rush. Come celebrate Charlie Chaplin’s 130th birthday this month by enjoying this film that he wrote, produced, directed and starred in. This will be the second in the series of […]
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