This holiday season, Frostburg State University’s Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance presents “A Christmas Survival Guide,” conceived and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick, with musical arrangements by John Glaudin. This intimate cabaret takes a funny (and sometimes snarky) look at the stressful holiday season. Each character, armed with a copy of “A Christmas Survival Guide,” charges into the urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. Featuring songs you know well, mashups of old classics, and new numbers created for the original production, each character learns to survive the season in ways that are both hilarious and heartwarming.Directed by Darrell Scott Rushton, musical direction by Kelly Shreckenghast, and costumes by Rachel Saylor, the cast features Theatre students Grace Stevenson, TJ Kelly, and Gracie Ray as the engaging trio ensemble, and features student designers from the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. “A Christmas Survival Guide” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals, www.concordtheatricals.com.Arm yourself with laughter and kick off your holiday survival with us—join the fun December 3, 4, 5, and 6 at 7:30 p.m., with a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, December 6, in the F. Perry Smith Studio Theater of the Pealer Performing Arts Center. Purchase tickets online at tickets.frostburg.edu; at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (Mon–Fri, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.), 301-687-3137; or at the door. Pricing: adults $20 cash/$21.09 credit card; FSU students and employees, and all youth $10 cash/$10.69 credit card.

Frostburg State University’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance will present the Wind Ensemble Concert in “Dancing with the Wind,” on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This vibrant program showcases works by Alfred Reed, Viet Cuong, David Clay Mettens and Arturo Márquez.Alfred Reed has long been known for his wonderfully colorful composing and arranging of traditional sacred and secular music, as well as his ability to take folk music and reimagine the rhythmic and harmonic language of the original to create a more colorful tapestry of sound. This will be on full display as the wind ensemble performs his settings of “Greensleeves” and “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, and his “Armenian Dances” (Part 1).The music of David Clay Mettens is wonderfully sensitive and complex, and his “Kinetic Dances”, for two scrap metal birds, is no exception. This work is inspired by an art installation by Chinese artist Xu Bing that hung in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. As the composer describes, “I was particularly struck by the contrast between the regularity and heaviness of the church’s pillars and the floating birds. Despite their immense combined weight of twelve tons, the two birds managed to ‘fly.’”Rounding out the concert program will be Viet Cuong’s “John and Jim”, which is inspired by the story of John Arthur and Jim Obergefell that paved the way for equal marriage rights for all, and “Danzón No. 2” by Grammy Award-winning composer Arturo Márquez. “Danzón No. 2” is both sensual and energetic, bringing the dance traditions of Veracruz and Mexico City to this wonderful composition.Purchase tickets online at tickets.frostburg.edu; at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (Mon–Fri, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.), 301-687-3137; or at the door. Pricing: adults $11 cash/$11.73 credit card; seniors, military, FSU employees: $6 cash/$6.53 credit card; and free for students and children.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at 301-687-4109 or via email at music@frostburg.edu.

All FSU students are invited for a Christmas Movie Marathon - Friday, December 5, 2025 6 pm til ??? at the Osborne Newman Center. This is a free event that includes hot chocolate, cookies, ginger bread house making, games and more... Do you have too much work to do? Then bring it with you, sit by the fireplace and use the wifi.

This holiday season, Frostburg State University’s Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance presents “A Christmas Survival Guide,” conceived and written by James Hindman and Ray Roderick, with musical arrangements by John Glaudin. This intimate cabaret takes a funny (and sometimes snarky) look at the stressful holiday season. Each character, armed with a copy of “A Christmas Survival Guide,” charges into the urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. Featuring songs you know well, mashups of old classics, and new numbers created for the original production, each character learns to survive the season in ways that are both hilarious and heartwarming.Directed by Darrell Scott Rushton, musical direction by Kelly Shreckenghast, and costumes by Rachel Saylor, the cast features Theatre students Grace Stevenson, TJ Kelly, and Gracie Ray as the engaging trio ensemble, and features student designers from the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. “A Christmas Survival Guide” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals, www.concordtheatricals.com.Arm yourself with laughter and kick off your holiday survival with us—join the fun December 3, 4, 5, and 6 at 7:30 p.m., with a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, December 6, in the F. Perry Smith Studio Theater of the Pealer Performing Arts Center. Purchase tickets online at tickets.frostburg.edu; at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (Mon–Fri, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.), 301-687-3137; or at the door. Pricing: adults $20 cash/$21.09 credit card; FSU students and employees, and all youth $10 cash/$10.69 credit card.

The SafeRide Program, an initiative of the Student Government Association, offers safe transportation to current students attending Frostburg State University. SafeRide, a student-operated program, is free to all students. It provides various employment opportunities to the students of FSU as well as offers students and recognized student organizations the opportunity to earn volunteer hours. SafeRide runs almost anywhere in the city of Frostburg. Current FSU students may call the SafeRide Office at 301-687-RIDE (7433) during operating hours to request a ride.

Storybook Holiday is a free, magical children's event that takes place at various locations around Main Street in Frostburg. Enjoy fun, holiday-themed acitivties, crafts, and treats!