Rep Stage

What is REP STAGE?

Small but mighty, Rep Stage has won 7 Helen Hayes Awards* and has received 38 nominations.
Rep Stage’s productions regularly garner national press coverage on the American Theatre web site (the magazine for Theatre Communications Group, the national association for professional theatre).
Rep Stage is the only professional theatre company** in Howard County filling the artistic gap between Baltimore and DC.
Rep Stage leads the artistic curve by ensuring its audiences see regional and/or national premieres each season.
Rep Stage’s management team is highly trained and educated with 5 graduate degrees across 7 employees.
Combined, the Rep Stage management team has over 100 years of professional theatre experience.
Rep Stage is the only professional theatre housed on a community college campus. Other similar campus relationships include Trinity Rep (Brown University) and Yale Theatre.
Rep Stage engages in education every day of operation with HCC students involved in every aspect of production (students work in the shop, on electrics crews, in wardrobe, as production assistants, assistants to the directors, as well as on stage).
Rep Stage offers the most affordable ticket prices in the area— single prices range from $15-30 and subscriptions are available starting at $52 [based on the 2008-09 pick-four subscription plan].
Rep Stage’s subscribers include Maryland, DC, Virginia and Pennsylvania residents.
Rep Stage audiences enjoy productions in the new 150-200 seat black box theatre in the Horowitz Center and the 400 seat Smith Theatre on the grounds of Howard Community College.
New plays are explored throughout the season as part of the FREE Rep Stage Play Reading Series, which take place in the new state-of-the-art Monteabaro Recital Hall on the grounds of Howard Community College.
Rep Stage audiences enjoy FREE post-show discussions, FREE Saturday afternoon pre-show lectures and an Off-Nite Series.
Rep Stage will celebrate its 16th season—Sweet Sixteen—by offering six productions (including three regional premieres and a world premiere). There will also be two benefit readings of David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries and a very special evening of entertainment—November 15th’s REPartee! A Celebration of Rep Stage’s Past, Present and Future and Salute to Founding Director Valerie Lash.
Rep Stage has declared each Wednesday a “pay-what-you-can” night as an incentive to first time audience members.
Rep Stage operates as a 501c3 not-for-profit theatre under the auspices of the HCC Educational Foundation—so contributions are tax-deductible.

*The Helen Hayes Awards are referred to as the regional equivalent of the Tony Awards.

**Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 45,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.