Articles Tagged With: Fun Company

Will Pullen as Morris in Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress at MET Fun Company 📸 Spence Photographics

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress at MET’s Fun Company

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“I am loved. And I am strong. If I can dream it then I can do it.”

There are few more important words that children (and children at heart) need to hear right now in this topsy-turvy, upside-down world that no longer makes a lot of sense. And you can hear them, feel them reinforced, and live them as the MET Fun Company kicks of their 2025/2026 season with Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Juliany Taveras (based on the book by Christine Baldacchino &

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Review: Bunnicula at Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Fun Company

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There’s nothing like a pet in the house! They keep you safe! They keep you warm! They drain your vegetables of all their color because they’re juice thirst vampires! Wait— what?!? Well, only that last bit if you accidentally sit on a rabbit in a movie theatre while seeing Dracula and decide to take it home. This may be exactly what happens to the Monroe family in the childhood classic story of Bunnicula,

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Shelly Hierstetter (left) as Cinderella and Daniel Valentin-Morales (right) as Prince Champion in the MET Fun Company production of Cinderella

Review: Cinderella at Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Fun Company

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True love can be recognized without sight or sound, but you simply must come see and hear the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Fun Company production of Cinderella to experience one of the loveliest non-Disney retellings of the classic fairytale. Adapted by Theatricks Music and Meryl Cullom and Directed by Julie Herber with Musical Direction by Jennie Huntoon, this charming performance is spellbinding with its magical characters, dazzling with its vivacious costumes,

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Review: James and The Giant Peach at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

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Marvelous things! Amazing, incredible, flabbergasting, marvelous things await theatergoers of all ages on the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Stage2 Performance Space as their Fun Company proudly presents James and The Giant Peach. Adapted to the stage by David Wood from the imaginative novel by Roald Dahl, this twisty and highly chimerical tale spins a story of a young lad called James and the marvelous things that await him once he encounters the giant peach.

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Review: Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at MET’s Fun Company

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Great family-friendly entertainment plus your favorite theatre in Frederick equals the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s Fun Company holiday production of Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. BOOM! You do the math! That’s right, everyone! It’s that time of year when Junie B. Jones starts her holiday shenanigans with jingle-bell hats, Christmas sing-a-longs and— a burp-in-a-bag? Directed by Julie Herber, Adapted by Allison Gregory, and based on the book by Barbara Park,

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It’s Alive! The Director’s Brain of Julie Herber reanimated for MET’s Frankenstein

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It’s alive! And rising up from the creative minds of Maryland Ensemble Theatre! Frankenstein, newly adapted for the stage as a part of the 2015/2016 season, the Mary Shelley classic finds its footing in an innovative new approach this autumn. In a TheatreBloom exclusive interview, we sit down with Director Julie Herber to discuss the good doctor and his creature, learning and discover just who the monster is.

If you’d give us a brief introduction of who you are and what of your work the readers might recognize,

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