Category Archives: Drama

Play Reading Series at Laurel Mill Playhouse, May 6-20

Play Reading Series at Laurel Mill Playhouse, May 6-20

Play Reading Series
Sundays, May 6, 13 and 20 at 2:00PM
Directed by John Cusumano
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Matinee performances on Sunday May 6 at 2:00 P.M.
Play Reading Series Part One – A View From A Bridge by Arthur Miller

Matinee performances on Sunday May 13 at 2:00 P.M.
Play Reading Series Part Two – The Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

Matinee performances on Sunday May 20 at 2:00 P.M.
Play Reading Series Part Three — Five Women Wearing The Same Dress by Alan Ball

This series features dramatic readings of three classic plays. This series is a fund raiser for the Playhouse.

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.

Buy tickets here.

Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation at the Bowie CPA, May 5

Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation at the Bowie CPA, May 5

Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation
The Stage Play

Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Journey with a family thrust into transition when their Matriarch becomes ill. Will they stand strong or will the reality of caring for their Mother tear them apart? The writers wrote the stage play to inspire, bring awareness to, and decrease the stigmatization to the disease Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The expected audience for this stage play is families, the elderly, churches, senior centers, the community, and caregivers of all ages.

Tickets: $25 General Admission, $18 Seniors 65+ with ID. For tickets click here.

The Speed Twins at Venus Theatre, May 3-27

The Speed Twins at Venus Theatre, May 3-27

THE SPEED TWINS
by Maureen Chadwick
directed by Deborah Randall

May 3 – 27, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

The Speed Twins unleashes an explosive and darkly comic conflict of desires and challenges us all to ask fundamental questions about identity. Three older women meet as strangers in a spectral version of the Gateways, the lesbian nightclub featured in the film “The Killing of Sister George”: Queenie is in complete denial of her sexuality, Ollie thinks she’s died and gone to Dyke Heaven, and Shirley looks as if she hasn’t aged a day since she lost the love of her life back in 1962. As the drink flows, uncomfortable truths are revealed as Queenie struggles to justify her life’s choices. Torn between temptation and fear, will she go to her grave with her conventional moral certainties intact? Or will she have the courage to re-write history and finally be true to her heart? The Speed Twins unleashes an explosive and darkly comic conflict of desires and challenges us all to ask fundamental questions about identity.

Tickets are $40 General Admission, $20 for Friend of Venus, $15 for Student or Senior. Buy tickets here.

Off The Quill presents Violent Delights at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 27-May 6

Off The Quill presents Violent Delights at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 27-May 6

Violent Delights: A Shakespearean Brawl-esque Sideshow
By Patrick Mullen, Leanne Dinverno, J. Peter Langsdorf, Katie Wanschura & William Shakespeare

April 27 – May 6, 2018

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Step into the Circus of Violent Delights. Blending stage combat, dance, physical theater, clowning, and traditional theatrical convention, our charismatic Ringmaster will lead you through Shakespeare’s most spectacular life or death scenarios.But remember, Violent Delights have violent ends.

Tickets $23 General Admission, $17 Students/Seniors. Click here.

Clove at Clarice Smith, Apr 27-May 5

Clove at Clarice Smith, Apr 27-May 5

Clove
Written and directed by Paige Hernandez

April 27 – May 5, 2018

Fri, Apr 27, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 29, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sun, Apr 29, 2018 . 7:30PM
Wed, May 2, 2018 . 7:30PM
Thu, May 3, 2018 . 7:30PM
Fri, May 4, 2018 . 7:30PM
Thu, May 4, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, May 5, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sat, May 5, 2018 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre

What are the elements that make any of us a whole person? Fulfillment and meaning come from an entire network of social connections and actions, so what happens when one of those connections is severed? Do you replace it? Can you? In this radiant multidisciplinary devised piece, spoken word, hip-hop, jazz, short plays and more fuse together in a search for answers to these central questions of identity. Written and directed by UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies alumna Paige Hernandez ’02.

Tickets: Regular: $25, Student/Youth: $10

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