Entertainment venues in Bethesda

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Bethesda Presbyterian Church

Entertainment venue · 7611 Clarendon Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Bethesda Presbyterian Church is a progressive Presbyterian congregation with a sanctuary used for worship, music, reflection, meetings, and community programs. The church traces its history across roughly three centuries in the Bethesda area.

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Bethesda Row Cinema

Entertainment venue · 7235 Woodmont Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema is a downtown Bethesda movie theater presenting independent, foreign-language, specialty, and Hollywood films with scheduled screenings and special programs.

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Bethesda Theater

Live Music Venue · 7719 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814, US

Bethesda Theater is a live entertainment venue in a restored historic 1938 Streamline Moderne theater. It presents concerts, comedy, tribute acts, talks, and special events in downtown Bethesda.

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Bethesda United Methodist Church

Entertainment venue · 8300 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Bethesda United Methodist Church is a downtown Bethesda congregation whose sanctuary and campus support worship, music, community service, meetings, education, and occasional performing-arts programs.

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Imagination Stage

Performing Arts Theater · 4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814, US

Imagination Stage is a nonprofit children’s theater and arts-education organization in downtown Bethesda. Its Jim and Carol Trawick building presents professional family theater, Theatre for the Very Young, classes, camps, student productions, filmmaking, dance, access programs, and community arts experiences for children and families.

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Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema

Entertainment venue · 7235 Woodmont Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema is an active eight-screen art-house and mainstream movie theater in downtown Bethesda. It presents independent, international, documentary, and Hollywood films with reserved seating, premium concessions, a full-service bar, filmmaker question-and-answer programs, and private screening options.

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Machaya Klezmer Band

Live Music Venue · 6220 Wagner Ln, Bethesda, MD 20816, US

Machaya is an active Washington–Baltimore-area klezmer and rock band performing Eastern European Jewish, Israeli, swing, classical, international, and popular music. The ensemble plays concerts, religious celebrations, weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, community events, and private parties with optional dance leading, DJs, and emceeing.

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Maryland Lyric Opera

Entertainment venue · 6900 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20815, US

Maryland Lyric Opera is an opera-producing organization, not a public performance venue at its stored Bethesda address. The company has presented fully staged and concert opera with orchestra and chorus at regional venues including The Music Center at Strathmore and The Clarice.

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Round House Theatre

Entertainment venue · 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

Round House Theatre is an active professional regional theater in downtown Bethesda. It produces contemporary and classic plays, discussions, community programs, and education offerings and operates a main theater with orchestra and balcony seating plus lobby food-and-beverage service.

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The Edge of the Universe Players 2

Entertainment venue · 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815, USA

The Edge of the Universe Players 2 has rebranded as Edge of the Universe Theater, an active professional company producing thought-provoking plays across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The stored 4508 Walsh Street address is The Writer’s Center, a former recurring host, not the company’s permanent theater.

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The Writer's Center

Entertainment venue · 4508 Walsh St, Bethesda, MD 20815, US

The Writer’s Center is an active nonprofit literary arts center in downtown Bethesda. It offers in-person and online writing workshops, readings, open mics, book talks, community events, classrooms, a writing studio, and resources for writers at every experience level.

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Unexpected Stage Company

Entertainment venue · 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817, USA

Unexpected Stage Company was a professional nonprofit Montgomery County theater producer that presented intimate plays and outdoor or streamed programs, often at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The company ended operations permanently in 2023 after 13 years.

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