Category Archives: Play

Love, Sex and the IRS by Wolf Pack at St John Lutheran Church, Apr 8-16

Love, Sex and the IRS by Wolf Pack at St John Lutheran Church, Apr 8-16

Wolf Pack Theatre Company presents
Love, Sex and the I.R.S.
by William van Zandt and Jane Milmore

Wolf Pack Theatre Company at Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church
Location: 5820 Riverdale Road, Riverdale MD 20737

Friday, April 8, 2016 at 8pm
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 2pm and 8pm
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 8pm
Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 2pm and 8pm

Jon Trachtman and Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax returns listing the pair as a married. The day of reckoning comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the “couple” they’re going to be investigated. Leslie masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon’s fiancee, Kate. Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having an affair behind Jon’s back, Jon’s mother drops in unexpectedly to meet her son’s fiancee, and Leslie’s ex girlfriend shows up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won’t see her anymore.

Tickets: $20. Buy tickets here.

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

PuppetCinema presents:
Salt of the Earth

Fri, Apr 8, 2016 . 8:00PM
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre, General Admission.

Audience advisories: This performance contains strong language, cigarette smoking, haze, a gunshot sound effect, loud noises and fog.

A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert; plastic tanks barrel down paper streets; and a faceless, nameless puppet emerges a rebel hero in this work by artist Zvi Sahar. Puppetry and hand-painted miniature sets combine with live filmmaking and projected video feeds, as a Lilliputian universe is created and destroyed before our eyes.

In Salt of the Earth, inspired by the bestselling Israeli novel The Road to Ein Harod by Amos Kenan, Sahar and PuppetCinema show us a dystopic world in which our protagonist — fleeing his country’s latest military coup — discovers the meaning of perseverance, survival, and ultimately, freedom.

General Public: Regular: $25, Student: $10.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! at the Publick Playhouse, Apr 8 & 9

Schoolhouse Rock Live! at the Publick Playhouse, Apr 8 & 9

Friday, April 8, 2016; 10:15 am & 12 noon Saturday, April 9, 2 pm
Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Description: Tom, a school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such beloved Schoolhouse Rock songs as “Just A Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.” Based on the Emmy-award winning series from the 1970s, Schoolhouse Rock Live! is lighting up stages everywhere bringing its infectious zest to a cross-generational audience.

Recommended for grades K-8. Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, History, Science, Math.

Tickets: Friday performance: $8/person, $6/groups of 20 or more; Saturday performance: $10/person

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1-17

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1 – 17

I Hate Hamlet
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Ilene Chalmers
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there’s one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore’s ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment.

Performances run weekends from Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016 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. 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.

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony

Fri, Apr 1, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 3, 2016 . 3:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, General Admission.

There’s something beautiful about being Black in America. This country where we are stripped of basic human rights, a sense of identity, and the freedom of individuality is what makes us the resilient people we are.

Too often are our stories ignored and too often does society dictate what we think. Now it’s time we tell our own story in our own words.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.