Monthly Archives: March 2019

Calendar Girls at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 15-Apr 7

Calendar Girls at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 15-Apr 7

Calendar Girls
by Tim Firth
Directed by Michael Hartsfield
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Friday March 15, 2019 through Sunday April 7, 2019
Matinee performances on March 31 and April 7 at 2:00 P.M.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

When Annie’s husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.. Performances run weekends from Friday March 15, 2019 through Sunday April 7, 2019 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $15. Tickets can be purchased by clicking the link below. For further information, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Buy tickets here.

Buffalo Soldier at the Publick Playhouse, Mar 12

Buffalo Soldier at the Publick Playhouse, Mar 12

Midweek Matinee: Education on Stage
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 10:15 am & 12 noon

Buffalo Soldier

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Description: Based on the true story of our nation’s longest surviving buffalo soldier and veteran of the Spanish-American War, this dramatic and amazing play with music from Virginia Rep tells the heroic story of the brave soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalries, who served our country well with little of the recognition they deserved.

Recommended for grades 3-8. Curriculum Connections: US History, Music, Language Arts, Character Development.

Tickets: $8/person, $6/groups of 20 or more

Auditions for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Country Wife by the Rude Mechanicals at Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 11-12

Auditions for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Country Wife by the Rude Mechanicals at Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 11-12

Auditions for:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams

and

The Country Wife
by William Wycherly

Auditions are:
Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7pm
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 7pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Performances: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: June 14 – 23, 2019
The Country Wife: August 9 – 17, 2019

Want to do theater with the Rudes this year? The Rude Mechanicals will be auditioning both Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and The Country Wife at the Greenbelt Arts Center on Monday, March 11th and Tuesday, March 12th. Callbacks will be Thursday, March 14th.

All are welcome to audition. Please arrive between 8-9PM, dress comfortably, relax, and have fun.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof performs at GAC June 14th, 15th, 16th, 21st, and 22nd. The Country Wife performs at GAC August 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, and 17th.

The rehearsal schedules will be three nights a week for “Cat”, one night for “Wife”, starting March 18th. Once “Cat” opens, “Wife” will rehearse three nights a week. Final schedule will be determined to account for casts’ conflicts.

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof has been often cited as Tennessee Williams’ masterwork. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it is a drama about the burning conflict and passion that grips a dysfunctional Southern family as it finally confronts and speaks the truth.

The Country Wife is William Wycherly’s 1675 Restoration sex comedy about a rake who convinces society he is impotent, and thus safe in the company of its wives. Given a reset in 1955 New York City, when America Liked Ike… there had to have been a first Mad Man.

Auditions for Cabaret Night at Greenbelt Arts Center, now-Apr 1

Auditions for Cabaret Night at Greenbelt Arts Center, now-Apr 1

Auditions for:
Cabaret Night
Songs I Wouldn’t Normally Get to Sing on Stage

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Greenbelt Arts Center will be holding a ‘Cabaret Night’ on Saturday, June 1. The theme for this evening is ‘Songs I Wouldn’t Normally Get To Sing On Stage”. This can mean a lot of different things: wrong gender, wrong color, wrong type, wrong age….

Regular GAC director Jeffery Lesniak is producing this event. He is now accepting applications to perform, through April 1. Click here for more information.

Performance: June 1, 2019

Disgraced at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 8-30

Disgraced at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 8-30

Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
directed by Bob Kleinberg

March 8 – 30, 2019

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar, is the taut drama of Amir Kapoor, an up and coming Muslim American lawyer who has rejected his religious background as overly rigid. Yet, at the insistence of his nephew and Islamic-inspired artist wife Emily, he chooses to attend the trial of an Imam who is charged with financially supporting the Hamas. At a dinner party that includes Amir’s coworker Jory, who is African American, and her husband, Isaac, Emily’s agent, who is Jewish, truths spill out that put Amir’s life in a new perspective. The show presents competing themes of assimilation versus exclusion, religious beliefs versus culture and tolerance versus prejudice.

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.