Category Archives: Drama

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.

The Creation of the World and Other Business at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21 – Apr 5

The Creation of the World and Other Business at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21 – Apr 5

The Creation of the World and Other Business
by Arthur Miller

March 21 – April 5, 2014

A guest production from Off The Quill.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Friday March 21st at 8:00 pm
Saturday March 22nd at 8:00 pm
Sunday March 23rd at 2:00 pm
Friday March 28th at 8:00 pm
Saturday March 29th at 8:00 pm
Sunday March 30th at 2:00 pm
Friday April 4th at 8:00 pm
Saturday April 5th at 8:00 pm

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Description: Arthur Miller’s intense and often comedic modern re-telling of the Book of Genesis. With dance, music, and physicality, Off the Quill presents the debates between God and Lucifer regarding human nature (and the nature of God) through the creation of the First Couple, their expulsion from Eden, and the murder of Abel.

Daughter of the Struggle at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 21

Daughter of the Struggle at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 21

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Friday, March 21 at 8:00pm

Free Soul Productions presents Daughter of the Struggle

An inspiring and unforgettable one woman show brought to you by Free Soul Productions starring Ayanna Gregory with special guest, comedian, civil & human rights activist, Dick Gregory followed by Q&A with the audience.

With powerful stories and transformative songs, this play is an intimate journey into the life of the legendary Dick Gregory and the family that loves him. This autobiographical performance reveals Ayanna’s multidimensional existence as a daughter of the Civil Rights Movement.

Tickets: $25 Adults, $15 Students.

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.

Ding! or Bye Bye Dad at Venus Theatre, Mar 6-30

Ding or Bye Bye Dad at Venus Theatre, Mar 6-30

Ding! or Bye Bye Dad
by Jayme Kilburn

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

March 6 to 30, 2014
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Tickets: $20. Buy here.

Parental advisory: Adult themes.

Description: Two sisters, Hamiere and Boomer, creep silently towards their sleeping father, one armed with a bat the other with a frying pan. At the sound of a bell we are swept into a high-pressured speed-dating scenario. Hamiere is a ball of insecurities, a relationship dunce who finds it more convenient to love a dog than a human being. Boomer, her sister, serves as a fire starter and manic cheerleader, constantly pushing her sister to try and form a meaningful human bond all the while choosing only to date gay men because of her new-found distaste for sex. As the bell rings and the daters change seats, we are bystanders to Hamiere’s awkward emotional admissions: her pseudo-lesbian fantasies, her desire to give birth to puppies, and her thoughts on the afterlife. As the play unfolds the audience experiences vignettes of Hamiere and Boomer’s troubled past with men. Ding or Bye Bye Dad centers on the father / daughter relationship and what happens when that relationship is illformed. In the end, Hamiere and Boomer edge silently towards their father’s deathbed, kitchen utensils in hand, ready to kill their monster.