Category Archives: Drama

Forsaken Angels at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Sep 18-27

Forsaken Angels at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Sep 18-27

Forsaken Angels
by William Leary
A guest production by Wolf Pack Theatre Company

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Parental Guidance: Strong language, sexual situations and graphic violence. No one under 17 admitted without adult supervision.

September 18 – 27, 2015
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sunday, at 2:00

This new drama is by William Leary, author of DC Metro Theatre Arts ‘Best of 2014’ Masquerade, and the winner of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner. The show looks at the lives of three young people; Audrey, the upper middle class young girl who is taken by a boy she’s met online, Samantha, a young girl from the projects whose mother is a drug addicted, alcoholic prostitute, and Alex, the young boy kicked out of his home due to his sexuality. Forsaken Angels is a graphic, hard hitting and honest look at the horrors of sexual trafficking in America today.

Ticket prices: $20 General Admission, $16 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy Tickets here.

Wolf Pack presents Masquerade at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Sep 9

Masquerade at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Sep 9

Wolf Pack Theatre Company presents:
Masquerade
One night only staged reading.
Proceeds benefit suicide prevention

Wednesday, September 9th at 8pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

With the upcoming Suicide Prevention Benefit production of ‘Masquerade’ at Joe’s Movement Emporium starring original cast members Sarah K. Scott, Lauren Giglio, Kelly Ladi Richards, Carol V. Calhoun, Tim Jansen and Alie Kamara with proceeds going to Metro DC PFLAG and CommunityCrisis ServicesInc please note that there is limited seating, so you’ll want to get your tickets soon! Ticket price includes a pre-show reception with local craft beers from Franklins Restaurant, Brewery and General Store and other beverages from Town Center Market, ‘Masquerade’ and a post show discussion.

Tickets $50, tax-deductible donation. Buy tickets here.

One Acts by Elan Zafir at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Aug 28-30

One Acts by Elan Zafir at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Aug 28-30

One Acts by Elan Zafir:
Super Earth
Ben & Lucille
by Actor/Playwright Elan Zafir

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday August 28, 2015 through Sunday August 30, 2015
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM. Sunday matinee performance on Sunday August 30 at 2:00 PM

Super Earth

As the threat of nuclear extinction filters through the streets of New York, two men find themselves in an underground observatory wondering what they could have done different with their lives. If only they had one more chance to make things better.

They get the chance.

Ben & Lucille

How do you know when it’s time to call it quits? How can distance bring a perfect relationship to a crashing end? When mediocre painter Ben Schaffer takes the train to meet his academic activist girlfriend at a motel in Philly — he finds that things have changed. As old tiffs quickly turn into political and philosophical wounds — Ben and Lucille must confront the inevitable decay in their relationship, and the possibility of making a clean start.

Performances run weekends from Friday August 28, 2015 through Sunday August 30, 2015 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $15. For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

King John at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Aug 21-Sep 3

King John at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Aug 21-Sep 3

King John
by William Shakespeare
A guest production from The Rude Mechanicals

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

August 21 – September 3, 2015
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sunday at 2:00

Shakespeare And The Holy Grail. This seldom performed play goes down much better when served in a Monty Python style. Yet you may still receive full credit for having seen King John – one of Shakespeare’s Top Forty. And no singing!

Ticket prices: $20 General Admission, $16 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult)
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Witches Vanish at Venus Theatre, Aug 20-Sep 13

Witches Vanish at Venus Theatre, Aug 20-Sep 13

Witches Vanish
by Claudia Barnett
Venus Theatre World Premiere

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens August 20, 2015
Closes September 13, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Description: In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the weïrd sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witches Vanish examines the nature of change and the value of human life.

About the playwright: Claudia Barnett has developed four scripts with Venus Theatre, including No. 731 Degraw-street Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister, which had its world premiere on C Street in November 2013. She wrote Witches Vanish as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre in Chicago, where it was included in LeapFest 9, and further drafted the script at the MultiStages New Works Finalist Festival (New York), the Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha), the Women’s Work Festival (St. John’s, Newfoundland), and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival (Washington, DC). She teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University and is the author of I Love You Terribly: Six Plays (2012) and No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister (forthcoming, fall 2015), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Tickets: Buy here.