Category Archives: Play

Angel Street at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 2-24

Angel Street at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 2-24

Angel Street
By Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell

March 2 – 24, 2018
March 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 & 24 at 8PM
Sunday matinees: March 11 & 18 at 2PM

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Angel Street (better known in the USA as Gaslight) takes place in 1880 in an old Victorian house in Pimlico, London. Mr Manningham is slowly trying to drive his wife, Mrs Manningham, insane (her mother died of insanity) by playing demonic tricks on her. Why? Because, very briefly, many years ago a murder took place in the house and the murderer was looking for some precious rubies which have never been found. One evening when Mr. Manningham is out a visitor calls – it is Inspector Rough who during the course of the evening convinces Mrs. Manningham that her husband is a maniacal killer. He enlists the aid of Elizabeth, the Manningham’s housekeeper. The other character is Nancy, a young flirtatious parlor maid who sets her cap on Mr. Manningham.

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.

Bowie High School presents West Side Story at the Bowie CPA, Mar 3-4

Bowie High School presents West Side Story at the Bowie CPA, Mar 3-4

Bowie High School presents
West Side Story
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

March 3 – 4, 2018
CANCELLED: Friday, March 2 at 7pm
Saturday, March 3 at 2pm and 7pm
Sunday, March 4 at 2pm and 7pm

Presented by: Bowie High School
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Privacy Project at Milkboy Arthouse, Mar 2-3

Privacy Project at Milkboy Arthouse, Mar 2-3

Privacy Project

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Part 1: Friday, March 2, 2018 8 PM
Part 2: Saturday, March 3, 2018 8 PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Milkboy Arthouse, 7416 Baltimore Ave., College Park 20740

This groundbreaking transatlantic theater project is focused on the value of privacy. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington, theaters across the US and Europe have commissioned playwrights to write five-minute plays exploring the central question, “What does privacy mean to you in the digital age?” The results will be presented in different formats by a network of theaters through June 2018, with the intention of creating an artistic and cultural dialogue centered around varying American and European understandings of privacy.

Experience staged readings of all 15 plays over two evenings, accompanied by discussions about the issues raised by the works with participation from some of the playwrights as well as on-campus and local partners from the public policy, cyber-security and intelligence communities.

Join UMD faculty members and three of the participating artists/playwrights in Do Good Dialogue: No Place to Hide: A Conversation about Privacy, or the Lack Thereof on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 . 7 PM

Tickets: Reserved: $30+, General Admission: $25+, Student/Youth: $10+

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Mortal of Grace at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 24

Mortal of Grace at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 24

Mortal of Grace
A dramatic reading
by Jeff Dunne
Directed by Jeff Dunne
Produced by Maureen C. Rogers

Saturday February 24, 2018 for one performance only!

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

This performance is a Saturday Matinee at 2:00 P.M. The $10 donation includes admission, one beverage, cheese and crackers. Any seat is $10

Mortal of Grace is a drama, written in the style of Celtic myth, about a faerie princess who falls in love with a mortal. It tells of the reverberating impacts of their cursed love on the lives of the man’s sister and her descendants under the tyranny of a lord who has stolen the princess’ Grace to achieve immortality.

The performance will be given by the following cast of veteran actors: Chris Carothers, Sam David, Gary Eurice, Barb Gasper, Kyle Kelley, Matt Leyendecker, and Sharon Praetor.

About the Playwright –
Jeff Dunne is a playwright in the greater Baltimore area. A writer of music and fiction for over three decades, he turned to his attention to the stage in 2011 to align his passion for writing with that of acting. Over the next five years he produced several one-act plays for youth that were performed at libraries and children’s hospitals. In 2015 he completed his first full-length play, which received such positive feedback and recognition in festivals in 2016 that he began writing much more actively. In 2017, Jeff produced three more full-length plays, two one-acts (one for stage, one for radio), and eighteen shorter pieces. In the same year, his works won six awards from both community and professional theaters, and two of his full-length plays were selected by a Washington DC-based production company for adaptation to film. By the end of 2018, Jeff’s works will have had over fifty performances through twelve distinct productions.

Tickets are $10 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $10. 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.

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The Breaking Point and Babel at Clarice Smith, Feb 23-24

The Breaking Point and Babel at Clarice Smith, Feb 23-24

Second Season
The Breaking Point by Jennifer Kasnadi and Babel by Almost Human

February 23 – 24, 2018

Fri, Feb 23, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 24, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 24, 2018 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre

The Breaking Point
By Jennifer Kasnadi

The Breaking Point explores how relationships between people devolve due to the current political climate of the US. The piece features interviews with students from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance studies that comment on how politics affect an “epicenter of apathy.”

Babel
By Almost Human

Babel is a site-specific performance exploring knowledge, histories and beliefs. The piece delves into ancient institutions, where they have come from, and where they are headed. Babel is produced by PhD student Fraser Stevens’ experimental theatre company, Almost Human.

Tickets: Free, tickets required.

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