Category Archives: Drama

Upstage Artists presents Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Apr 25-May 4

Upstage Artists presents Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Apr 25-May 4

Upstage Artists presents:
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
by Todd Kreidler
directed by John Cusumano

Show Dates: April 25-27 and May 2-4, 2025

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

A progressive white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fiance home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Blindsided by their daughter’s whirlwind romance and fearful for her future, Matt and Christina Drayton quickly come to realize the difference between supporting a mixed-race couple in your newspaper and welcoming one into your family — especially in 1967. But they’re surprised to find they aren’t the only ones with concerns about the match, and it’s not long before a multi-family clash of racial and generational difference sweeps across the Draytons’ idyllic San Francisco terrace. At the end of the day, will the love between young Joanna and John prevail? With humor and insight, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner begins a conversation sure to continue at dinner tables long after the curtain comes down.

Tickets: $11.50. For more information click here.

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7 pm
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce their return to Joe’s in April 2025.

The show will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. No one turned away for lack of funds. We mean it. If you need assistance with a ticket, please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com.

*Please note that, as a political theater company, we aim to keep our work as up-to-the-minute and relevant as possible. Our work is constantly changing.*

Tickets: $35 General, $25 Youth/Senior. Click here.

Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 14-Apr 6

Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 14-Apr 6

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents:
ROMEO & JULIETTE
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & directed by Jacqueline Youm
Music Composed and Directed by Andrew Mauer
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Performances March 14, 2025 – April 6, 2025, Performances Fri. at 8 PM; Sat. at 1 or 2 PM; Sat at 8 PM; Sun. at 2 PM.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: $20, Children 18 and under, Seniors 65 and over, and active duty military: $15

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Upstage Artists presents Rope, Feb 21-Mar 2

Upstage Artists presents Rope, Feb 21-Mar 2

Upstage Artists presents:
Rope
by Patrick Hamilton
directed by Rick Bergmann

Show dates: February 21 – March 2, 2025

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the “fun of the thing,” Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth’s father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table.

Tickets: $11.50. For more information click here.