Summer at the Center
June 13 - 29
Towson University is proud to present the 2025 Summer at the Center festival, a two-week celebration of the arts, with, by and for our larger community. Formed in 1982, The College of Fine Arts and Communication and its seven academic departments plus six centers/institutes have enjoyed a long and excellent history of presenting public performances, exhibits, and other cultural events for arts lovers in Baltimore County and beyond. Summer at the Center 2025 features dazzling and delightful performances, exhibitions, and creative undertakings from a celebrated lineup of returning Towson University alumni, as well as faculty, students, and friends! We’re sure there is something here for everyone, and we look forward to seeing you at the Center!
Group pricing available when purchasing 10 or more tickets.
Towson University is proud to present the 2025 Summer at the Center festival, a two-week celebration of the arts, with, by and for our larger community. Formed in 1982, The College of Fine Arts and Communication and its seven academic departments plus six centers/institutes have enjoyed a long and excellent history of presenting public performances, exhibits, and other cultural events for arts lovers in Baltimore County and beyond. Summer at the Center 2025 features dazzling and delightful performances, exhibitions, and creative undertakings from a celebrated lineup of returning Towson University alumni, as well as faculty, students, and friends! We’re sure there is something here for everyone, and we look forward to seeing you at the Center!
Group pricing available when purchasing 10 or more tickets.
June 13, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Exhibitions Opening Reception
1930s Hollywood: Money, Food, and Fashion in the Great Depression is a multimedia interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the relationship between an entertainment medium and media consumers.
Joan Cox: Side by Side is an exhibition of recent works highlighting the artist’s significant contributions to the genres of figurative painting and queer portraiture.
Exhibitions Opening Reception
1930s Hollywood: Money, Food, and Fashion in the Great Depression is a multimedia interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the relationship between an entertainment medium and media consumers.
Joan Cox: Side by Side is an exhibition of recent works highlighting the artist’s significant contributions to the genres of figurative painting and queer portraiture.
June 14, 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Family Fun Day: Dance Celebrate!
Community Dance will be hosting a free day of dance workshops and performances for the whole family, along with excerpts of the dance performance of our spring production, Carnival of Animals.
Family Fun Day: Dance Celebrate!
Community Dance will be hosting a free day of dance workshops and performances for the whole family, along with excerpts of the dance performance of our spring production, Carnival of Animals.
June 14, 7 p.m.
Midnight Cowboy Radio
By Ally Ibach | Directed by Patricia Runcie-Rice
It's Labor Day in Kentucky! Time for your favorite late-night-radio-talk-show host, to give you life advice on the air of Midnight Cowboy Radio, entertaining y’all for those long drives home! This one-person show was conceived and written by TU alum Ally Ibach. It has been performed off-Broadway at Theatre Row (NYC) and has been awarded as a finalist at The Secret Theatre's One-Act Festival (NYC).
Midnight Cowboy Radio
By Ally Ibach | Directed by Patricia Runcie-Rice
It's Labor Day in Kentucky! Time for your favorite late-night-radio-talk-show host, to give you life advice on the air of Midnight Cowboy Radio, entertaining y’all for those long drives home! This one-person show was conceived and written by TU alum Ally Ibach. It has been performed off-Broadway at Theatre Row (NYC) and has been awarded as a finalist at The Secret Theatre's One-Act Festival (NYC).
June 21, 1 p.m.
Film Screening: The End of Summer (小早川家の秋)
The family of widower, Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjirô Nakamura) who runs a sake brewery, become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu (103 minutes)
Film Screening: The End of Summer (小早川家の秋)
The family of widower, Manbei Kohayagawa (Ganjirô Nakamura) who runs a sake brewery, become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu (103 minutes)
June 21, 7 p.m.
The Fantastical Now
written and performed by Siobhán O’Loughlin
This immersive, interactive performance features a lonely, video game playing, Dungeons & Dragons loving Egirl and Tik Tok star embarking on her true dream: becoming a fantasy novelist. As Bambi stumbles through her first book talk, Bambi seeks validation and community from the audience in this heartfelt exploration of human vulnerability and the love of a novel. TU alum Siobhán O’Loughlin (she/her) is a bicoastal performance artist, educator, and filmmaker whose small scale, intimate works are all rooted in creating community through creativity.
The Fantastical Now
written and performed by Siobhán O’Loughlin
This immersive, interactive performance features a lonely, video game playing, Dungeons & Dragons loving Egirl and Tik Tok star embarking on her true dream: becoming a fantasy novelist. As Bambi stumbles through her first book talk, Bambi seeks validation and community from the audience in this heartfelt exploration of human vulnerability and the love of a novel. TU alum Siobhán O’Loughlin (she/her) is a bicoastal performance artist, educator, and filmmaker whose small scale, intimate works are all rooted in creating community through creativity.
June 22, 3 p.m.
Maryland Opera presents Summer Serenade
Maryland Opera presents “Summer Serenade” featuring beloved hits from the operatic and Broadway stage performed by a trio of world-class artists. Artistic Director James Harp, long known for excellence in operatic performance and musical outreach throughout the region, will be at the piano, sharing his passion for this repertoire as he gives synopses for the selections from the stage. It will be an afternoon of favorites, old and new!
Maryland Opera presents Summer Serenade
Maryland Opera presents “Summer Serenade” featuring beloved hits from the operatic and Broadway stage performed by a trio of world-class artists. Artistic Director James Harp, long known for excellence in operatic performance and musical outreach throughout the region, will be at the piano, sharing his passion for this repertoire as he gives synopses for the selections from the stage. It will be an afternoon of favorites, old and new!
June 26, 7 p.m. (Towsontown Field)
The Comedy of Errors, Hon
by Ian Gallanar | Presented By Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare Beyond
TU’s Summer at the Center is proud to play host to the Shakespeare Beyond Wagon- a program of Chesapeake Shakespeare that brings free Shakespeare to neighborhoods throughout Maryland all summer long. Bring a blanket or a chair and your favorite picnic snack, and prepare to laugh the evening away with a new adaptation of The Comedy of Errors with a distinctly local twist! All are welcome!
The Comedy of Errors, Hon
by Ian Gallanar | Presented By Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare Beyond
TU’s Summer at the Center is proud to play host to the Shakespeare Beyond Wagon- a program of Chesapeake Shakespeare that brings free Shakespeare to neighborhoods throughout Maryland all summer long. Bring a blanket or a chair and your favorite picnic snack, and prepare to laugh the evening away with a new adaptation of The Comedy of Errors with a distinctly local twist! All are welcome!
June 27, 7 p.m.
Film Screening and Panel: Halloween in June
Summer not spooky enough for you? Towson University’s department of Electronic Media and Film is bringing you Halloween in June! We are serving up a curated selection of spooky short films, creepy comedies, and shocking sci-fi by EMF students and alumni. Then, EMF is proud to present the world premiere of Trick or Treat with Reed Richmond, the latest spin-off of the retro-VHS cult classic WNUF Halloween Special cinematic universe by EMF alumnus Chris LaMartina. This eerie-sistable event is hosted by Baltimore's horror hostess with the mostest, Aurora Gorealis!
Student tickets free at the door pending availabilty.
Film Screening and Panel: Halloween in June
Summer not spooky enough for you? Towson University’s department of Electronic Media and Film is bringing you Halloween in June! We are serving up a curated selection of spooky short films, creepy comedies, and shocking sci-fi by EMF students and alumni. Then, EMF is proud to present the world premiere of Trick or Treat with Reed Richmond, the latest spin-off of the retro-VHS cult classic WNUF Halloween Special cinematic universe by EMF alumnus Chris LaMartina. This eerie-sistable event is hosted by Baltimore's horror hostess with the mostest, Aurora Gorealis!
Student tickets free at the door pending availabilty.
June 28, 7 p.m.
Richard Rodgers & His Sounds of Music
Writer, director, and star of this musical extravaganza, Carolyn Black-Sotir and guest artists tenor Min Jin, baritones Phillip Collister and Jason Widney, sopranos Lori Hultgren and Leah Inger, along with pianist Tim McReynolds, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Frank Russo pay tribute to the life and works of genius Broadway composer/producer Richard Rodgers. This extraordinary theatrical concert presents Rodgers’s musical classics as well as reimagined interpretations of his theatre songs. While celebrating the sheer beauty and genius of his music, this muti-media performance reveals the stories behind the music and delves into Rodgers’s collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein.
Richard Rodgers & His Sounds of Music
Writer, director, and star of this musical extravaganza, Carolyn Black-Sotir and guest artists tenor Min Jin, baritones Phillip Collister and Jason Widney, sopranos Lori Hultgren and Leah Inger, along with pianist Tim McReynolds, bassist Tom Baldwin, and drummer Frank Russo pay tribute to the life and works of genius Broadway composer/producer Richard Rodgers. This extraordinary theatrical concert presents Rodgers’s musical classics as well as reimagined interpretations of his theatre songs. While celebrating the sheer beauty and genius of his music, this muti-media performance reveals the stories behind the music and delves into Rodgers’s collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein.
June 29, 3 p.m.
New Play Readings: Small Acts of Pride
TU’s Summer at the Center pays a final tribute to Pride month with an afternoon of short plays and performances in celebration written by a diverse group of LGBTQ+ identified TU Theatre alums.
New Play Readings: Small Acts of Pride
TU’s Summer at the Center pays a final tribute to Pride month with an afternoon of short plays and performances in celebration written by a diverse group of LGBTQ+ identified TU Theatre alums.
