Students, community members and visiting artists share their vision of the world through music, opera, dance and theatre. Throughout the year, enjoy performances by the AACC faculty as well as regional, national and international artists who share their talents and passion for a wide range of styles and traditions.
Thank you for your continued support and interest in AACC performing arts events. Select the headings below to see a list of events for the spring 2024 performing arts season. Tickets are available online. We’d love for you to attend!
Feb. 26
2 p.m.
Cade Center for Fine Arts Room 301
This event is free! Join us for a fun master class in Cade 103. Come dressed to dance!
For information email Margaret Russell at mkrussell@aacc.edu.
May 3 and 4
7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
The AACC Dance Company graces the stage in a powerful performance! Experience the exciting movement and agility of our dance students in a commanding display of choreography and precision.
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event. Email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
Ticket prices:
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
For information email Margaret Russell at mkrussell@aacc.edu.
April 27
2 p.m.
Cade Center for Fine Arts Room 224
Musicians from Unified Jazz Ensemble will answer questions and share tips and techniques that have contributed to their successful career.
April 27
7:30 p.m.
Humanities Building Room 112
Unified Jazz Ensemble will perform some of their most noted works. Bring family and friends and enjoy an evening of smooth sounds.
Ticket prices:
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
AACC Faculty Jazz Ensemble
May 3
7:30 p.m.
Humanities Building Room 112
AACC's Faculty Jazz Ensemble is dedicated to the performance, education and advancement of America’s music. In addition to performing traditional repertoire, the ensemble focuses on music composed by its members. Tell all your family and friends it's an event they won't want to miss!
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
May 10
7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
Ticket prices:
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu.
May 11
7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
It's sure to be an evening of hand clapping and foot tapping to the great sounds of compositions and arrangements that combine swing, ragtime, blues and more. AACC instructor Mercedes Beckman is music director! Be sure to bring your friends and family and enjoy!
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event. Email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
Ticket prices:
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
May 12
3 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
On Mother's Day, May 12, at 3 p.m. in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts, what a harmonious blend of music and dance it'll be! The AACC Symphony Orchestra features the AACC Dance Company in their Spring Concert! Come out and enjoy while the symphony provides the musical backdrop to the AACC Dance company performing a single rendition choreographed by AACC Dance Instructor, Margaret Russell. In addition, the AACC Symphony orchestra, under the musical direction of AACC Music Instructor, Anna Binneweg, performs works by:
May 16
7 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Twenty-five years after the murder of Matthew Shepard, Cathy Renna, communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, and Forrest Caskey, AACC associate professor and member of Gov. Wes Moore’s Maryland LGBTQ Task Force, will facilitate an interactive townhall focusing on erasing hate and bias. Members of OPERA AACC and the Arundel Vocal Arts Society will perform excerpts of “Considering Matthew Shepard.”
This is a free event!
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu.
May 17
7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
AACC Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, along with the Arundel Vocal Arts Society and guest artists, present composer Craig Hella Johnson’s fusion oratorio "Considering Matthew Shepard."
STRESS WARNING: "Considering Matthew Shepard" is a musical depiction of the actual events surrounding Matthew Shepard’s murder and therefore includes images, videos and props that reference extreme violence, death, hate and trauma connected to queerphobia. Some audience members may find this content disturbing. Anne Arundel Community College, as part of our core mission, believes that in acknowledging the existence of violence and hate we can better resist it, promote healing and lift up the deep worth of every human being.
AACC is providing a talk-back after each performance.
One-act performance; 90 minutes, no intermission
Ticket prices:
$25 general admission
$15 AACC students, faculty, staff, seniors over 60, active military, groups of 10 or more
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
May 19
3 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
AACC Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, along with the Arundel Vocal Arts Society and guest artists, present composer Craig Hella Johnson’s fusion oratorio "Considering Matthew Shepard."
STRESS WARNING: "Considering Matthew Shepard" is a musical depiction of the actual events surrounding Matthew’s murder and therefore includes images, videos and props that reference extreme violence, death, hate and trauma connected to queerphobia. Some audience members may find this content disturbing. Anne Arundel Community College, as part of our core mission, believes that in acknowledging the existence of violence and hate we can better resist it, promote healing and lift up the deep worth of every human being.
AACC is providing a talk-balk after each performance.
One-act performance; 90 minutes, no intermission
Ticket prices:
$25 general admission
$15 AACC students, faculty, staff, seniors over 60, active military, groups of 10 or more
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
Feb. 23 and 24
8 p.m.
Humanities Building Room 112
Join us for short plays written, designed, acted and directed by students.
AACC Theatre presents its inaugural Black Box Series, which aims to support our budding theatre artists and theatrical community and provides them room to experiment and take risks in a safe space.
Four plays have been chosen for production:
Each Black Box Series short play will have its own production team including a student director, stage manager, designers and techs. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and are available online or at the door.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu.
March 2
1 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Take a basic look at various falls, punches, slaps and other unarmed stage combat techniques as Fight Director Jonathan Ezra Rubin works with AACC students. The workshop will culminate in a choreographed mass brawl set to the opening scene from "Romeo and Juliet."
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and are available online or at the door.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu.
AACC students interested in participating in the workshop should contact Madeline Austin at mlaustin2@aacc.edu.
April 12, 13, 19 and 20
8 p.m.
April 14 and 21
2 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
It's Theatre AACC's mainstage production, "Little Shop of Horrors," for the spring 2024 season! Taking center stage in various roles is the group of AACC theatre students known as The Moonlight Troupers under the direction of AACC instructors. This production is based on the book and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music is by Alan Menken. It's also based on the Roger Corman film of Charles Griffth's screenplay and is directed by Madeline Austin.
Ticket prices:
$20 general admission
$10 AACC faculty, staff, seniors, active military, groups
$5 All students with valid ID
Tickets may be purchased online or in person! Visit the Box Office inside Pascal Center for Performing Arts on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
April 29
7 p.m.
Humanities Room 112
Learn what it takes to get the musical role. Kevin Chamberlin shares tips to help in your musical theatre auditions. Family audiences will recognize Chamberlin as Bertram in the long running hit sitcom “Jessie.”
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and are available online. You also can purchase tickets in person! Just visit the Box Office on Tuesdays or Wednesdays from noon to 2 p.m. or 1.5 hours prior to each event.
For information email boxoffice@aacc.edu or call 410-777-2457.
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