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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.

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 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.

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Maryland-based artist, Roo Taylor. The exhibition is on view at Hotel Indigo, located at 24 West Franklin St. from April 17 - July 17.
A public reception will take place on Wednesday, April 22 from 5 PM to 7 PM.

About the Artist:
Roo Taylor (b. 2003) is a Baltimore-based artist originally from Denver, Colorado. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is currently a resident artist at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Working primarily with high-flow acrylic paint and acrylic ink, Taylor uses transparency and layered color to create abstract landscapes. Her work explores the interplay between the natural world and human relationships, exploring the emotional and atmospheric depth through fluid, natural spaces. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries across Baltimore, Denver and New York, as well as internationally at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan.

Using light and color as metaphors for energy, Roo Taylor’s work traces the through lines between the natural world and human connection. Rooted in a deep reverence for transparency and hue, each piece is meant to reflect on the connection between feeling and form. Taylor invites viewers to experience emotional resonance as something inherently natural, alive, layered, and luminous.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 22 from 5 PM to 7 PM for a champagne reception at Hotel Indigo located at 24 West Franklin St.

Between 1946 and 1953, Henri Matisse created 28 lithographic portraits for Poésies Antillaises (Antillean Poetry), a book of poems by John-Antoine Nau. Published posthumously in 1972, this rare volume remains one of Matisse’s least-known illustrated works.

Inspired by his brief 1930 visit to Martinique, Matisse translated Nau’s evocative poems—celebrating travel, music, and oceanic landscapes—into vibrant portraits. These reflect the artist’s collaborations with notable Caribbean and international models and are presented alongside works by two leading artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe, Germaine Casse and Serge Hélénon. This focus exhibition illuminates aspects of the transatlantic artistic circles active during the late French colonial period.

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.