Howard Live Calendar

Student production // Howard Community College's Student Arts Collective will present The Child Be hind the Curtain, an original interac tive production that travels through mythical and material worlds, through Sunday in the Studio The atre (formerly the Black Box Theatre) in the college's Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Park way, Columbia. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $15; $12 for senior citizens and groups. Students pay $10. 410-772-4515. Tickets: 410-772-4900, ext. 0.

'1776' // Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, is presenting 1776: A Revolutionary Mu sical through Sunday on the New Mainstage. Performance times vary. Tickets are $25-$48, with discounts for seniors, students and groups. Children pay half-price. 301-924-3400 or www.olneytheatre.org.

'Dreamcoat' // Toby's Dinner The atre of Columbia, 5900 Symphony Woods Road, is presenting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat through June 8. Doors open at 6 p.m. for evening shows Tuesday through Saturday and at 5 p.m. Sun days. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for Wednesday and Sunday matinees. Reservations are required. Tickets are $44-$49. 410-730-8311, or www.tobysdinnertheatre.com.

'Heart of America' // Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard Community College, will conclude its 15th season with Naomi Wallace's response to the Persian Gulf War of 1991, In the Heart of America, May 28 through June 29 at the Studio Theatre (formerly the Black Box Theatre) in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Co lumbia. A reception is planned after the June 1 performance; discussions will be held after the June 6 and 13 performances. A free pre-show lec ture is planned at 1 p.m. June 7 in the Monteabaro Recital Hall. Tickets are $15-$25, with discounts for sen iors, groups and HCC faculty and staff. Students with ID pay $12. Pay-what-you-can previews are sched uled for 7:30 p.m. May 28 and 29. 410-772-4900.

Faculty concert // The Howard Community College Music Depart ment will present a free "Spotlight Concert" with artist and clarinetist Jane Winer, cellist Yoon Nah Cho and pianist Hsien-Ann Meng at 7:30 p.m. today in the college's Horowitz Cen ter for the Visual and Performing Arts' John G. Monteabaro Recital Hall, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. Vocalist Judith Cavendish and pianist William Scanlan Murphy will perform "American Art Songs and Cabaret Selections" at 4 p.m. Sunday at the same location. Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors. Students with identification pay $5. Reserva tions are recommended. Deborah Kent, 410-772-4914, or Hsien-Ann Meng, 410-772-4107.

Free chamber music // Members of the Columbia Orchestra will pres ent a free chamber music concert at 8 p.m. today at Christ Episcopal Church, 6800 Oakland Mills Road, Co lumbia. The concert will feature the Ellicott Brass Quintet and the Classi cal Encounters String Quartet. 410-465-8777 or visit www.columbiaorchestra.org.

'Three Phantoms' // Three Broadway stars of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera -- Cris Groenendaal, Craig Schulman and Kevin Gray -- will perform at 6:30 p.m. May 19 at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Baltimore in a benefit for The Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, a theater arts program for chil dren, founded by Toby Orenstein in 1972, that offers a conservatory pro gram, summer camps, participation in theater productions and outreach to at-risk youth. A cocktail reception before the main performance will be followed by CCTA student entertain ers and a silent auction. Tickets are $75. Toby's in Baltimore is at 5625 O'Donnell St. 410-381-0700 or e-mail, info@CCTArts .com.

Lace makers // Members of the Chesapeake Lace Maker's guild will demonstrate their craft and discuss its history from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to morrow at the Thomas Isaac Log Cabin, at Main Street and Ellicott Mills Drive, Ellicott City. Visitors can try to make their own lace. Admis sion is free. 410-465-8500.

Plein air // The Howard County Art guild will sponsor a talk and demonstration by plein air painter Nancy Davis at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Howard County Center for the Arts, 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City. She will show equipment she takes into the field and demonstrate oil painting techniques. Admission is free. Cher Compton, 301-854-3478.

Conversations, color // Slay ton House in the Wilde Lake Village Green, Columbia, is showing work by Linda Uphoff in a show titled Conver sations with the River and a show of mixed-media work by Charles Reiher, In Moving Color, through May 24. Gal lery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon day through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat urday. 410-730-3987.

Senior art // Students in Howard County art classes for senior citizens at the Bain Center in Columbia are showing their work in an exhibition sponsored by Howard Community College and the Howard County Of fice on Aging. The show will run through May 23 in the lobby of the George Howard Building, 3430 Court House Drive, Ellicott City. 410-465-1681. Directions: 410-313-3000.

Art in Laurel // Montpelier Arts Center, 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, is showing work by Asian-American artists Gen Aihara, Del-Kun Dave Chen and Shinji Turner-Yamamoto through May 30. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 301-953-1993.

Pastels, acrylics // Cher Com pton will show acrylic paintings and pastels in a show, A Sense of Wonder, through May 30 at Artists' Gallery in the American City Building, 10227 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, and by appoint ment. 410-740-8249. Or www.artistsgallerycolumbia.com.

Photographs // Gallery f64, 8090 Main St., Ellicott City, is presenting a new show in the series, Emerging Photographer Artists, through May, or longer. Work by Christopher Daber ko, Suzanne Garr and Drime Kelsang, is on display. Gallery hours are 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 410-480-9004 or www.f64gallery.com.

More photographs // Columbia Art Center, 6100 Foreland Garth, Co lumbia, will show work by members of the Central Maryland Photogra phers Guild through June 8. The cen ter's Window Gallery is showing pho tographs by Christine K. Bowles through June 8. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun day. 410-730-0075.

Moving art // Organizers of the Columbia Festival of the Arts fifth Kinetic Art Parade are seeking mov ing art for the procession planned for 11 a.m. June 14 through Columbia's Town Center. The art should be imag inative and easily carried, pulled, rid den or driven along the one-mile pa rade route. Artists can also turn themselves into art and walk in the parade. Cash prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 will be awarded, and en trants can display their work during the Lakefest activities after the pa rade. Entries, due by May 23, should be able to withstand wet or windy weather. 410-715-3044, or www.columbiafestival.com.

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