After a two-season hiatus, the Maryland Stage Company - the professional company in residence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County - is back performing for its home audience. Director Xerxes Mehta's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's comedy about the amorous adventures of humans and fairies, begins performances at Center Stage's Pearlstone Theater Tuesday.

The cast is headed by Wendy Salkind in the double roles of Hippolyta and Titania, Scott Sedar as Oberon and Theseus, Bill Largess as Egeus and Peter Quince, and Dan Manning as Bottom. Costumes and sets are by Elena Zlotescu.

Show times at Center Stage, 700 N. Calvert St., are 8 p.m. June 18-22, 26-29 and July 2, 3, 5 and 6; and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. June 23, 30 and July 7. General admission tickets are $20, except for the June 18-19 preview performances, which are $18, and the June 20 opening gala, which is $50. Tickets for college students are $10; high-school students admitted free, except June 20. For more information, call 410-637-3618 or visit www.marylandstagecompany.org.

- J. Wynn Rousuck