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Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
The Absence of a Cello
by Ira Wallach
directed by Ilene Chalmers

May 2 & 3, 2023

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

As Martin Gottfried describes: “It is about a physicist who needs money so badly he turns to the $60,000-a-year job offered by a big corporation. He wants the job, but does the company want him? Mr. Personnel is sent to find out. What seems to be starting out as a shopworn target—individuality versus conformity—turns out to be an ingeniously conceived comical discussion of honesty and truth. After being coached by a gray-flanneled collegiate on how to be what every company wants, the scientist is prepared to confront the enemy (after quickly trading in his rolled-up trousers and flapping shirt for a neat brown suit)…He hides the cello he plays with pick-up quartets, he hides the medieval history books his wife writes, he hides all but the acceptable three liquor bottles. He hides, in fact, everything that he and his wife are. And hauls out the television set…What follows is a literately comical playaround with industrial conformity that for sheer humor is, well, wonderfully adult.”

Performances: July 21 – August 13, 2023

For more information click here.

Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along at Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 23-25

Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along at Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 23-25

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Greenbelt Arts Center Presents:
Merrily We Roll Along
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by George Furth
directed by Roy Hammond
music directed by Joe Biddle
choreography by Rikki Howie Lacewell

April 23 – 25, 2023

Auditions: Sun. Apr. 23, Mon. Apr. 24, and Tues. Apr. 25 at 7:00 pm. Callbacks, if needed, will be Wed. Apr. 26 at 7:00 pm.

Performances: July 21 – August 12, 2023

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

The show tells the story of how three friends’ lives and friendship change over 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Like the play on which it is based, the show’s story moves backward in time. It begins in 1976 at the friends’ lowest moment and ends in 1957, at their youthful best.

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Auditions for Gidion’s Knot at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 6 & 7

Auditions for Gidion’s Knot at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 6 & 7

Laurel Mill Playhouse announces auditions for:
Gidion’s Knot
By Johnna Adams
Directed by Rachel Kilgallon and Larry Simmons
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 7pm
Friday, April 7, 2023 at 3pm

Performances: July 14 – 16, 2023

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

In search of two female actresses. Callbacks (if needed) will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Bring a headshot, resume and list of conflicts through July 16.

Over the course of a 90-minute parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother’s son, the teacher’s student, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely– or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion’s act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

Ticket prices: $20 general, $15 students/military/seniors

LMP strongly urges that all patrons that come to LMP be vaccinated and wear masks. At this time, we will not require vaccination cards and masks in LMP but reserve the right to change the guidelines should the positivity rate rise significantly.

Buy tickets here.

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

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.

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