Category Archives: Auditions

Auditions for The Children’s Hour at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 23 & 25

Auditions for The Children’s Hour at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 23 & 25

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Children’s Hour
By Lillian Hellman
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell and John Bartkowiak

Auditions: March 23 & 25, 2023

Performances: May 19 – June 3, 2023

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The play, which premiered in 1934, was a professional success for the playwright, Lillian Hellman. Set in a private school for girls, the play explores how lying, bullying, and the insidious effect of slanderous innuendo can upend plans and lives.

For more information including parts to be cast, see: https://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/auditions/

Auditions for A View from the Bridge by Upstage Artists, Mar 17 & 18

Auditions for A View from the Bridge by Upstage Artists, Mar 17 & 18

Upstage Artists announce auditions for:
A View From The Bridge
by Arthur Miller
Directed By John Cusumano
Assistant Directed By Michael and Megan Safko

Auditions: March 17 and 18, 2023

Performances: June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 2023

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine. When Beatrice’s cousins Marco and Rodolpho enter the US illegally, desperate to find work having fled the poverty of Sicily, the pair is welcomed into the Carbone home. But as Rodolpho and Catherine fall in love, Eddie’s adoration of his niece is no longer touching, but terrifying. Simmering with jealousy and obsession, Italian-American immigrant life of 1950s Brooklyn colours Miller’s searing drama of tragic proportions. The universal story of family, immigration and justice cuts deeply.

For more information click here.

Auditions for The Patchwork Girl of Oz at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-15

Auditions for The Patchwork Girl of Oz at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-15

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
based on the 7th book in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series
directed by Eliot Malumuth

Auditions: March 6 – 15, 2023
March 6, 9, 14, and 15 with callbacks by invitation if needed on March 20.
All will begin at 7 PM.

Performances: June 16 – July 8, 2023

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a musical adventure story set in the marvelous land of Oz. While trying to create a servant for himself, Dr. Pipt sprinkles his “Powder of Life” on a patchwork quilt doll and voila!

Scraps – a bubbly and brassy young girl with no intention of being his slave – comes to life.

Scraps and her Munchkin friend, Ojo the Unlucky, set off to collect the ingredients needed to revive Ojo’s uncle who has been accidentally turned into a statue. It’s a journey of understanding – of self, of the wonders of Oz, and of the world around us.

For more information including audition sides and parts to be cast, see: https://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/auditions/

Auditions for Something Rotten by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, Feb 13 & 15

Auditions for Something Rotten by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, Feb 13 & 15

2nd Star Productions announces auditions for:
Something Rotten
May 26 – June 24, 2023
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell
Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by Alanna Kiewe
Music Directed by Sarah Mitchell
Choreographed by Kelsey Meiklejohn Bowen & Summer Moore

Auditions: Monday, February 13 & Wednesday, February 15 7-10pm

Those who wish to audition may attend either the Monday or Wednesday auditions and sign up in advance for a time slot at this link: Something Rotten Audition Sign-Ups. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes before your slot.

Sign-ups are preferred for planning purposes and we will be prioritizing the times for those who sign-up in advance. However, 2nd Star will see walk-in auditioners! Callbacks: Saturday, February 18th starting at 1pm by invitation only (not all roles will require a callback.) Please keep Saturday afternoon clear in case you are called back. If you are needed for callbacks, you will be notified by phone and/or email by Friday.

Location: 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse

Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star aka Shakespeare. When the local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick sets out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of the opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.

Performances: May 26 – June 24, 2023, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm *Note: June 24th is a Saturday matinee performance

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Auditions for All My Sons by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 31-Feb 1

Auditions for All My Sons by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 31-Feb 1

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Fred Nelson

Auditions: Tuesday, January 31 & Wednesday February 1, 2023, 7pm
At the Bowie Playhouse

Callbacks: Thursday, February 2, 2023

Cold readings from the script.

Performances: March 31 – April 23, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sunday matinees at 2PM
Please note: Add’l Saturday matinee March 20 – 2PM

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

How far would a man go to protect his family, his interests, and his legacy? Joe Keller, the patriarch in All My Sons, desperately wants to secure and maintain the financial security and legacy he spent so many years building, ready to hand it down to his surviving son Chris. At the same time, Joe’s wife Kate is still waiting for their eldest son Larry to return from war, determined that he is alive and will marry the former girl-next-door, Ann –the daughter of Joe’s former business partner who is sitting in prison, punished for Joe’s crimes. To complicate this family drama, Chris and Ann are in love and want to get married. In All My Sons, Arthur Miller creates a post-war American family in a tragic downfall of lies, greed, love, and loss, and demands its audience examine their own social responsibilities to all the sons of American wars.

For more information, click here.