We can trace the history of our site at 143 Compromise Street back to 1696, when it was designated as wharfage. Several different structures followed, but the current building--actually two buildings that were later combined--was probably constructed around the time Compromise Street was platted in 1837. ASGT leased the site from the Anne Arundel County Board of Education in 1967. In 1990, the County very generously sold the property to us for $1 with the stipulation that it continue to be a community theatre engaged in cultural and educational activities.
Learn the full story by clicking the Building History link at left.

The hours of hard work required to turn the site into an outdoor theatre and maintain it as such began the day we became tenants.  Initial conversion was followed by a spate of improvements in the early eighties and nineties.  Essentially, however, the efforts over the years have been “patchwork home improvement.”
Today, ASGT is focused on completing its first full-scale makeover since it converted the old Shaw Blacksmith Shop into a theatre forty years ago.  The ravages of time on the building exterior, coupled with inefficiencies of its interior and theatre spaces, demand that something be done now.