Arts & Entertainment

Let Baltimore County Public Library help you to take advantage of the many artistic and cultural events that the region has to offer.

Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association
Official tourism site for Baltimore City and the surrounding area. Find local restaurant listings and enjoy one of the many up-coming events happening in the city.

Baltimore County Conference and Visitors Bureau
Fun stuff to do in and around Baltimore County.

Baltimore Events and Festivals
from Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts.City activities and City-wide Events Calendar.

Baltimore Fun Guide
a project of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.  Great place to find out about what's happening in the area.

Baltimore Sun Restaurant Search
Searchable by cuisine and location.

Calendars of Local Events
from Baltimore County Public Library's Holidays and Events InfoCenter

Crab Houses and Restaurants
from BlueCrab.info. Locate restaurants where hot steamed "Maryland-style hard crabs are served".

Festivals and Celebrations
from Baltimore County Public Library's Holidays and Events InfoCenter

Festivals and Events
by Festivals.com.  Celebrating festivals and events around the world. Search by keyword or name, map, subject, and location.

International Association of Fairs and Expositions
Includes the history of fairs and a "Find a Fair" button which is organized by by name, location, month, or any combination.

Maryland Wineries
Includes a calendar of events and info on regional wineries.

Metromix Baltimore
Local entertainment guide on where to go and what to do in Baltimore, from the hottest restaurants and bars, to the latest in events, music, movies, style, and television.

Restaurant Association of Maryland
Dining guide for restaurant promotions, grand openings, brunch locations and to find a restaurant by cuisine, location and price. Catering service information also available.

Zagat
Excellent guide offers staff picks or lets you search for restaurants by cuisine, feature, and locale in Baltimore and major cities around the world.

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Drew's Scripts-O-Rama 
Download hundreds of movie and television scripts.

Entertainment Awards 
from Infoplease.Lists award-winning movies, television shows, music, performing arts awards, and more.

Maryland Film Festival
This annual festival in downtown Baltimore showcases original films and restored films across formats and genres.

Maryland Film Office
Get the scoop on film-making and promotion in Maryland.

Movie Review Query Engine 
Links to reviews for more than 16,000 movies, add your own reviews. Has button link to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for storyline, cast, release dates, and more. Find show times at local theatres.

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Baltimore County provides funding and enjoys access to a huge number of museums and exhibit spaces including those which are physically located in Baltimore City.  And don't forget that some of the finest museums in the World are just a day trip away in Washington, DC.

African American Local Museums and Historical Sites
from Baltimore County Public Library's African American InfoCenter.  The Baltimore area, the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia offer  multiple venues for ex ploring African American history and accomplishments.

American Visionary Arts Museum
Baltimore's museum devoted to visionary and naive arts.

Asian Arts and Culture Center at Towson University
Over 1,000 objects including ceramics, paintings, wood-block prints, textiles, carved ivories, wood, metal and stone sculpture, cloisonné enamels and furniture displayed during the academic year.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum
Birthplace of American railroading.

Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
Babe Ruth birthplace and official Orioles history museum.

Baltimore Basilica
The first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States, and the first major religious building constructed after the adoption of the United States Constitution. It is a National Historic Landmark and National Shrine.

Baltimore Maritime Museum
Includes four historic landmarks: the Lightship Chesapeake, USS Torsk which was one of only ten Tench Class fleet type submarines to see service in World War II, USCGC Taney which was in action against Japanese planes during the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse.

Baltimore Museum of Art
World renown art collection, special exhibits, and programs for all ages.

Baltimore Museum of Industry 
This museum in Baltimore celebrates the past, present and future innovations of Maryland industry.

Baltimore Streetcar Museum
Street railway history and rides on original Baltimore streetcars.

Contemporary Museum
"Dedicated to broaden the understanding of new art and exhibition ideas". Located in downtown Baltimore.

Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry
Discover fascinating hands-on exhibitions, sing along to vintage toothpaste commercials, and celebrate the heritage and future of dentistry at this historic location near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Affiliated with Smithsonian.

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
Poe's home from 1832 to1835 with links to other Poe sites.

Fire Museum of Maryland
Discover the history of fire fighting, from colonial times to the present. Located in Lutherville, Maryland.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Preserves the legacy of Fort McHenry as a national monument and historic shrine.

Geppi's Entertainment Museum
Where else can you revisit your childhood and get back in touch with old friends that entertained you in the past through comic strips and books, radio and television shows, films, cartoons, and so much more? Located in historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore Maryland.

Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum
Dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and documentation of aviation and space history in Maryland, namely, the contributions of Glenn L. Martin and his successful company. Located in the Middle River Essex area of Baltimore County.

Greater Baltimore History Alliance: Museums
Lists museums and historic homes throughout the Baltimore area. Click on each name for additional information and their web site is available.

Hampton National Historic Site
1790's Georgian Mansion with furnishings and gardens located in Towson, Maryland.

Jewish Museum of Maryland
A major museum of regional Jewish history, culture and community. The Museum interprets the Jewish experience in America, with special attention to Jewish life in the state of Maryland.

Maryland Commission on Artistic Property
of the Maryland State Archives.  includes Peabody Collection: works of art on loan to many Baltimore institutions and the Annapolis Collection: displayed in State buildings in  Annapolis. 

Maryland Historical Society
Maryland cultural artifacts from past to present. Located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Maryland Science Center
Davis Planetarium, IMAX Theater, and a wide variety of exhibits.

MuseumLink's Museum of Museums
Official websites of national and international museums plus a collection of virtual museums.

Museums in the USA
Locate museums by name, type, or state.

Port Discovery Children's Museum in Baltimore
"Provides experiences which ignite imagination, inspire learning, and nurture growth through play." Located near the Inner Harbor of Baltimore City.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
Largest museum of its kind on the East Coast dedicated to sharing Maryland's African American history with the world.

Rosenberg Gallery
This gallery located at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland exhibits showcase work by regional artists.

School 33 Art Center
Baltimore's home for regional contemporary art

Smithsonian
Composed of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoo, and numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad.

Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards
The state's sports history headquarters. Features exhibits on the Baltimore Orioles, the Baltimore Colts, Ravens and Blast, Orioles Hall of Fame, Negro League teams, the Preakness, the  Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame, regional college athletics, and more.

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House
Home of Mary Pickersgill who sewed the flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.

Todd's Inheritance Historic Site 
Located in Edgemere area of Baltimore County. Todd's Inheritance played a key roll in the Battle of North Point and helped prevent the British from capturing Baltimore during the War of 1812.

Walters Art Museum
Exhibits, tours, and visitor information about a premier Baltimore institution.

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Baltimore Museum of Art

Hampton National Historic Site

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House

And some books from the library's collection on the fine arts include:

All Music
Search this vast database of recorded music by artist, album, song, genre, country, instrument, theme or mood. The database covers popular music styles as well as classical and jazz. Requires free registration to access extensive information.

Choral Public Domain Library 
In addition to choral scores in the public domain, you'll find lyrics, translations, and information about composers.

Google Directory: Lyrics 
Categories include current hits, rock and pop, hymns, international and the 60's.

Lester S Levy Collection of Sheet Music
From the Special Collections of the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University.  Consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is nineteenth-century America. Search by title, composer, first line of song or chorus and find a digital image of the sheet music. If the music was published after 1923, it is not in the public domain, and therefore there will be no images.

Lyrics 
From the Open Directory Project.Offers lyrics from many categories of music, search by type, artist, other languages and links to other lyric sites.

MoJo's Song Lyrics 
2,000+ children's songs. Search by title or subject.

Mudcat Cafe Lyrics Search 
Includes 9,000 songs in the Digital Tradition Database. Search by title or keyword. Also a folk and blues e-journal.

Sheetz Music 

Sheetzbox is a fairly extensive source of free PDF piano sheet music for musicians of all ages and levels.

Baltimore Chamber Orchestra

Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Full Chorus and Orchestra, Professional Chamber Chorus, and Educational Outreach Ensemble

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
The BSO's homepage, with information on tickets, season calendar, and musicians.

Baltimore Theatre Alliance
Find out what is playing on local theatre stages. Join their talent registry and find out about auditions and professional development workshops.

CenterStage
Baltimore's resident professional theater

Community College of Baltimore County: Performing Arts
The three campuses at Catonsville, Dundalk, and Essex offer music, theatre, and dance for audiences and artists of all ages throughout the year. Lists auditions.

Dance Magazine 
Articles, reviews, links to professional dance companies and other related sites.

DateLines
Events for all ages taking place at Baltimore County Public Library.

Directory of Outdoor Drama in the United States 
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this directory is organized by location and category.

Everyman Theatre
Professional local theatre company with artists from the Baltimore/Washington area presenting high quality plays that are accessible and affordable to everyone.

Fells Point Corner Theatre
Community theatre in Baltimore City

France - Merrick Performing Arts Center at the Hippodrome Theatre
Downtown Baltimore's newest performing arts venue is a stunning rennovation of one of the city's premiere vaudeville houses..

Gordon Center for the Performing Arts
Presents a variety of entertainment in music, theater, dance, family programming, and film. Located in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Goucher College
World-class guests present public discussions and performances throughout the year. Located in Towson Maryland.

Handel Choir of Baltimore

Heritage Players, Inc.
Catonsville-based community theater

Internet Broadway Database 
Comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway dating from the 1700s to the present. Search by characters, theatres, songs, shows, actor, director, producer and more.

JamBase 
Searchable list of concerts by date, venue and location.  Includes concert news, reviews and music festival guide.

Liberty Showcase Theatre
Randallstown area theater group

Lorenzo's Timonium Dinner Theatre

Lurman Woodland Theatre
Summer outdoor music series in Catonsville

Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Theatre company in Frederick, Maryland

Maryland Music Resources
Prepared by the Sights and Sounds Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Maryland's State Library Resource Center
Local music venues, music festivals, production and recording resources, band listings and much more.

Maryland's Party Guide
Night clubs and show schedules across Maryland, plus local band information

Murphy Fine Arts Center
Morgan State University's venue for visual and performing arts - including Broadway and off-Broadway productions, studio theatre, stand-up comedy, musical and dance performances and art exhibits. Located in Baltimore.

Olney Theatre Center
Professional regional theatre in Olney Maryland

Oregon Ridge Dinner Theatre
Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland

Pasadena Theatre Company
Glen Burnie Area Community Theatre

Playbill
Theatre news and show listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, Tours and London.

Pollstar
Source of worldwide concert tour schedules, ticket sales results, and  trade news.

Pumpkin Theatre
Geared to "give your child and family theatrical memories that will last forever." Held at St. Timothy's School for Girls, Stevenson, Maryland, just off the Baltimore Beltway.

Puppet Company Playhouse
Glen Echo Park area puppet theater for children

Recher Theatre
Concert venue for live national, regional, and local music in heart of Towson.

Reisterstown Jazz Ensemble
Schedule of performances, photos; non-profit group

Rep Stage
A professional theatre company in residence at Howard Community College

Shriver Hall Concert Series
A chamber music series held on the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University

Single Carrot Theatre
One of Baltimore's more art forward theatres.

Spotlighters Theatre
Community theatre in Baltimore City

Theatre Hopkins
Community based, semi-professional theatre housed by Johns Hopkins University

Theatre Project
Non-profit performing arts in Baltimore City

Theatre on the Hill
Professional summer musical theatre company at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

Toby's Dinner Theatre
Area dinner theatres located in Columbia and Baltimore.

Towson University Arts and Culture Calendars
From jazz to chamber music, dramas to musicals, art exhibits to dance, to films and lectures, Towson University's Center for the Arts and other campus venues offer entertainment year round.  The Asian Arts and Culture Center presents a full calendar of events designed to promote the visual and performing arts of Asia.

University of Maryland at Baltimore County Arts and Culture Calendar
Arts and culture abound on campus, including Humanities Forum and Social Sciences Lecture series, Phoenix Dance company, Doug Hamby Dance, Center for Art and Visual Culture.

Vagabond Players
Nation's oldest continuously operating little theatre

Washington Post Theater Guide
There's a lot of great theater right down the road in our nation's capitol too!

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