Category Archives: Comedy

The Importance of Being Earnest at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jun 10-26

The Importance of Being Earnest at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jun 10-26

The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Rocky Nunzio
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Friday June 10, 2016 through Sunday June 26, 2016
Sunday matinee performances on June 19th and June 26th at 2:00 P.M.
Special Thursday night performances on June 16 and June 23rd at 8:00 PM.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Set in the late 1800’s in England, young countryman Jack Worthing has decided to propose to the love of his life Gwendoline. The only problem is that she knows him by a false name: Ernest. Before he has a chance to come clean on the name Gwendoline reveals that she only ever truly love someone with the name Ernest. Jack then decides that the only way to win his true love is to head back to his estate and receive a new christening under the name Ernest. Things get complicated, high jinks ensue and a lot of fun is to be had in one of the greatest comedy of manners ever written!

Performances run weekends from Friday June 10, 2016 through Sunday June 26, 2016 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.

Grimm Fairy Tales Spectaculathon at Hard Bargain, Jun 10-26

Grimm Fairy Tales Spectaculathon at Hard Bargain, Jun 10-26

Grimm Fairy Tales Spectaculathon
By Don Zolidis
Director: Trey Thomas

June 10 – 26, 2016

Location: Hard Bargain Players

PARENTAL GUIDANCE: This is NOT your kids fairy tale! This play contains mature content and themes.

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are turned on their heads in this fast-paced, rollicking ride as two narrators and several actors attempt to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories like The Devil’s Grandmother and The Girl Without Hands. A wild, free-form comedy with lots of audience participation and madcap fun.

Tickets for Hard Bargain Players performances are $10 for adults, $8 for students, seniors and members of the Alice Ferguson Foundation.

To reserve tickets, click here.

Wyrd Sisters at MAD, May 6-21

Wyrd Sisters at MAD, May 6-21

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) presents:

Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs.

Directed by Jon Gardner
Produced by Dave Buckingham

A spoof of Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and King Lear, with more witches than any of them. Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare’s tragedies and then turns them up ‘till the knob comes off. It’s all in there–a wicked duke and duchess, a wise fool, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. Destiny is at work, but where will it all end up?

Click here for a theatrical trailer.

Presented by NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center’s Music and Drama Club.

Love, Sex and the IRS by Wolf Pack at St John Lutheran Church, Apr 8-16

Love, Sex and the IRS by Wolf Pack at St John Lutheran Church, Apr 8-16

Wolf Pack Theatre Company presents
Love, Sex and the I.R.S.
by William van Zandt and Jane Milmore

Wolf Pack Theatre Company at Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church
Location: 5820 Riverdale Road, Riverdale MD 20737

Friday, April 8, 2016 at 8pm
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2pm and 8pm
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 8pm
Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 2pm and 8pm

Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the “couple” they’re going to be investigated. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon’s fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon’s back, Jon’s mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son’s fiancee, and Leslie’s ex girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won’t see her anymore.

Tickets: $20. Buy tickets here.

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1-17

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1 – 17

I Hate Hamlet
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Ilene Chalmers
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there’s one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore’s ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment.

Performances run weekends from Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016 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.