Top Billing: Quiet Waters Park hosts Art@The Park, a two-day art and music festival

Quiet Waters Park hosts two days of music and art Saturday and Sunday during the annual Art at the Park festival.

The event features original artwork from more than 70 exhibitors, both locally and across the country. Musical performances, activities, specialty food, wine and beer round out the Annapolis weekend.

Put on by Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks and the Friends of Quiet Waters Park, all proceeds from the event benefit the county park, a 340 acres stretch of trails, picnic and event pavilions, glades, a dog park, playgrounds, a concert pavilion and access to kayak, a waterfront overlook and canoe rentals.

Musical acts include the Stone Bossa Trio, Bridgette Michaels, Rob Levit, Will Bradenburg, Neil Harpe and wraps up with Finnish-born singer-songwriter Ruut.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the park, located at 600 Quiet Waters Park Road.

Admission is $6 per car per day. Dogs are welcome at all outside venues but are not allowed in the buildings.

For more information, visit fqwp.org or call 410-222-1777.

The Colonial Players continues its season Friday with the opening of “33 Variations,” a drama by Moisés Kaufmann. This play brings to life a man immersed in his music and a woman determined to understand his motivations, both while coping with the horrors of incurable illness.

Performances run through Nov. 12, Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m., Sunday performances begin at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 to $23, with discounts for seniors, students and military. Call 410-268-7373 or visit Tickets can be purchased online at thecolonialplayers.org for tickets.

“Romeo & Juliet,” Shakespeare’s tale of doomed love and ill-placed enmity as interpreted by Prokofiev and performed by the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, opens Friday for the first of three performances in Annapolis.

The ballet begins at 7:30 Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis.

Saturday’s performance will be preceded at 6:30 p.m. by a celebration in honor of Dianna Cuatto’s 15th anniversary as artistic director of the theater. Tickets are $30 to $52. For information and tickets, visit balletmaryland.org.

This is it, the final weekend of the season for the Maryland Renaissance Festival If you’ve been meaning to return to the fictional village of Revel Grove for weeks, but keep putting it off it’s now or wait until August.

The final two days include the usual royal court events, theatrical performances, street acts, jousting matches and food that is dominated by stuff on a stick.

The final shows start at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at 1821 Crownsville Road just outside Annapolis. Tickets are $10 to $40. Children 6 and under free. Call 410-266-7304 or visit https://www.rennfest.com/.

Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Connelly star in “Only the Brave,” the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who saw 19 of their members killed while battling an Arizona wildfire in June 2013. In theaters Friday. For more new movies, visit capitalgazette.com/entertainment.

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