3 Best Performing Arts Venues in Baltimore, Maryland

Designed in 1892, the building that houses the Charles Theater has lived several lives: first, as a barn for cable cars, then a power house, a library for the blind, a ballroom, and now, a cinema. It's Baltimore's preeminent venue for first-run, foreign, and art films. Every week a classic film is featured on one of its five screens.

The sleek Landmark Theatres offer mainstream films within walking distance of the Inner Harbor. You can order crab cakes or a drink at the bar, take them into the auditorium, and relax in one of the black leather seats.

Rotunda Cinematheque has two all-digital theaters showing independent and foreign films.