Category Archives: Drama

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.

‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at Greenbelt Arts Center, Aug 16-31

‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
by John Ford
(A guest production by The Rude Mechanicals)

Greenbelt Arts Center

Friday August 16th at 8:00 pm
Saturday August 17th at 8:00 pm
Friday August 23rd at 8:00 pm
Saturday August 24th at 8:00 pm
Sunday August 25th at 2:00 pm
Friday August 30th at 8:00 pm
Saturday August 31st at 8:00 pm

In this deliciously twisted offering by the Rude Mechanicals, John Ford’s controversial tale of incest, obsession, revenge, blighted religion, and social amorality is given a touch of Tarantino, set in 1947 Italy among its most prominent Mafioso families. It could be Romeo and Juliet, through a glass, darkly, if the star-crossed lovers were … keeping it in the family.

Friday & Saturday at 8:00, Sunday Aug 25 at 2:00

Ticket prices: $17 General Admission, $14 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Child (12 and under with adult)

Parental advisory: This play was first published in 1633 and the subject matter was controversial for several centuries. For more information click here.

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1001 Black Inventions at the Bowie Center for Performing Arts, Aug 9-18

1001 Black Inventions – The Musical

Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Shows: Friday & Saturday, August 9, 10, 16 & 17 @ 7pm and Sunday, August 11 & 18 @ 2pm.

Tickets: $15 Student, $35 Adult; see below for special offers. Buy tickets here.

Description: $15 Student (Prince George’s County Public School students with a valid student ID or report card admitted free if accompanied by a paying adult and a canned food donation.) $35 Adult (Prince George’s County Public Schools staff free with valid ID and canned food donation.) $50 Partner (As a partner you will be joining QuietFire in finding, hiring and producing new and upcoming Talent. Your investment will be used as seed money to fund such projects as 1001 Black Inventions “the Musical.” In addition, you will receive: Free admission to all shows; VIP ID; Free admission to cast party; Announcements to all upcoming events; Automatic hire of all artists recommended by you; Official Recognition in show programs) “1001 Inventions” is a play that features the lives of brilliant men and women, then takes you into the Twilight Zone, a typical American family attempting to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Audiences laugh themselves into the realization that Black ingenuity is an integral part of their everyday lives.

“The program was extremely entertaining, touching, and educational for adults of all ages and cultures. So well supported that we would like to have you back.”
Nalda Callender, Program Coordinator – National Congress of Black Women Foundation, Vancouver Canada

1001 Inventions – “Laced with humor and peppered with music… the historical figures show students they can be anything regardless of the restrictions placed on them.” Jocelyn Stewart – Los Angeles Times