Category Archives: Drama

Secret Life Under the Stairs at Bowie State University, Oct 17-19, 11am

Secret Life Under the Stairs at Bowie State University, Oct 17-19

WonderWorks presents “Secret Life Under the Stairs,”
October 17, 2013 – October 19, 2013, 11:00am and 1pm each day.

Description: WonderWorks is a new professional theater company at Bowie State University that produces shows for young audiences. Directed by Bob Bartlett, “Secret Life Under the Stairs” is a play about making friends and exploring an imaginative world.

Location: Black Box Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University.

Cost: $3 for children; $5 for BSU faculty, staff, students and senior citizens; $10 general admission

Box office opens 1 hour before performances. Call 301-860-3717 for ticket information.

DeMatha High School presents Crime and Punishment at the Bowie CPA, Sep 27-29

DeMatha High School presents Crime and Punishment at the Bowie CPA, Sep 27-29

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

The DeMatha Players will present Crime and Punishment, an adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel. Performances will be held on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, 28th at 8 PM and Sunday, 29th at 2 PM. Tickets cost $5 and will be available in the Stag Store or reserve them by emailing Director Luke Durney, ldurney@dematha.org.

Outcry at the Publick Playhouse, Sep 27-28

Outcry at the Publick Playhouse, Sept 27 & 28

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Performances:
Friday, September 27 at 8:00pm
Saturday, September 28 at 4:00pm and 8:00pm

Description: What happens when no one hears you scream? Experimental playwright Thais Francis creates an imagined dream shared by Sean Bell’s fiancé and Emmett Till’s mother. Actors in the roles of Emmett Till, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and Trayvon Martin are ignored when crying for help.

Tickets: $10/person; $8/seniors, students and groups of 15 or more

Theater Project Beltsville presents The Guys at Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, Sep 11-15

Theater Project Beltsville presents:

The Guys

by Anne Nelson

Wednesday, September 11 through Saturday September 14 at 8:00pm
Sunday, September 15 at 3:00pm

At: Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 10774 Rhode Island Avenue, Beltsville, in the Beltsville Professional Center.

Call: 301-937-7646 for reservations

Adults: $10.
Seniors, Students, Military: $8
First Responders (Fire and Police): Free

The play commemorates the 9/11 attacks by exploring the lives of some of the heroes. The story follows a young fire captain and the journalist who helps him prepare eulogies. Together, they grow to understand the ways in which men were so much more than heroes to their colleagues and families.

A Soldier’s Play by Hard Bargain Players, Aug 23 – Sept 6

A Soldier’s play

Written by Charles Fuller
Directed by David Thomas

Hard Bargain Players at 2001 Bryan Point Road • Accokeek, MD 20607.

Performances
August 23, 24, 30, 31, September 6 and 7 at 8:00 PM

Parental advisory: Adult themes, including racism. For more details see the Wikipedia page (Spoiler alert: the page gives away part of the story.)

Synopsis
In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain, Richard Davenport, is assigned to investigate.

Winner! 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.