Category Archives: Children & Teen

Teen Auditions for The Taming of the Shrew at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 29 & 30

Teen Auditions for The Taming of the Shrew at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 29 & 30

Auditions for The Taming of the Shrew – Shakespeare Teen Theatre will be held on:

March 29, 2014 at 11:00 AM
March 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM

Director Michael Hartsfield will be casting:

34 roles. The director requests all teenagers auditioning have twenty to thirty lines of any monologue from a Shakespeare play prepared for the audition. Memorization is not necessary.

Teenagers who want to be involved in costuming, light/sound design and operation, stage managers, set construction and design, and publicity. should come on auditions dates with resume. Volunteer credit available. This is an opportunity for teens to be a part of an theater experience – whether it be on or off the stage. Bring resume and any conflicts. All roles open.

Teen Shakespeare Theatre is open to teens entering the 7th grade through those entering 12th grade. $25 fee to cover incidental expenses. Parental help gratefully accepted. 34 roles available!

Performances are scheduled to run from May 30, 2014 to June 15, 2014.

For more information, see: http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org/auditions.php

The Crucible at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Mar 26-28

The Crucible at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Mar 26-28

By Arthur Miller

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 26, 27 and 28 at 7:00pm

Description: The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.

Radium Girls at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 14-16

Radium Girls at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 14-16

Radium Girls
by D. W. Gregory

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

Bishop McNamara High School Fine Arts Department Theatre Program is excited to announce our spring play, RADIUM GIRLS.

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, RADIUM GIRLS traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees.

Written by local playwright D.W. Gregory, performance dates are Friday, March 14 and 15 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $10 each. Please join us for another outstanding production!

For tickets click here.

Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Charles H. Flowers High School, Mar 14-29

Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Charles H. Flowers High School, Mar 14-29

The Charles Herbert Flowers High School Jaguar Players present
Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical

Produced and Directed by Shanelle D. Ingram

Location: Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale.

Fridays and Saturdays, March 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 at 7:00pm.

All performances will be held in the Helena Nobles-Jones Auditorium at CHFHS.

Tickets are $10. For information phone: (301) 636-8000/extension 272.

Description: Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), “Ain’t Misbehavin'”. The musical is a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and ’30s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song “Ain’t Misbehavin'”. It was a time when Manhattan nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller’s view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.

Pinocchio at the Charis Center, Mar 14-16

Pinocchio at the Charis Center, Mar 14-16

Pinocchio
Based on the C. Collodi novel.
Adapted by Michael L. Vacca.

Location: Charis Center for the Arts

Friday, March 14 at 7:30pm.
Saturday, March 15 at 6:30pm.
Sunday, March 16 at 3:00pm.

Tickets are $5 (students), $8 (general admission).

To reserve tickets, email: admin@chariscenterarts.com or phone: 301-262-1183.