Category Archives: Play

Dematha High School presents Dead Man Walking at the Bowie CPA, Mar 20-22

Dematha High School presents Dead Man Walking at the Bowie CPA, Mar 20-22

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

Friday, March 20, 2015 at 8pm.
Saturday, March 21, 2015 8pm.
Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 1pm and 5pm.

Parental advisory: Mature themes.

Dead Man Walking is a 2002 play written by Tim Robbins based on Dead Man Walking, a book by Sister Helen Prejean about her experiences as a chaplain on death row.

“Dead Man Walking” will be presented by the DeMatha Players on March 20 – March 22, at the Bowie Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $5 and will be available in the Stag Store beginning on Monday, March 16. This play is for mature audiences only. It is a student/faculty production. The show is likely to sell out.

Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J., will be presenting a program at DeMatha on her ministry against the death penalty.

Tribute to Elvis, Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 20-21

Tribute to Elvis, Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 20-21

Tribute to Elvis, Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney
by Tribute Artist Jed Duvall

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday March 20, 2015 and Saturday March 21, 2015

Come celebrate the music of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Paul McCartney with Tribute Artist Jed Duvall at Laurel Mill Playhouse. For one weekend only!!

For further information information about Jed Duvall, check his web site at www.jedduvall.com.

Performances are Friday March 20, 2015 and Saturday March 21, 2015 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 $20. 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.

Berenstain Bears LIVE! at the Publick Playhouse, Mar 20

Berenstain Bears LIVE! at the Publick Playhouse, Mar 20

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Midweek Matinee
Friday, March 20, 2015, at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Berenstain Bears LIVE!

Following their hit off-Broadway run in New York and based on the award-winning book series, everyone’s favorite bear family arrives at the Playhouse to sing and dance through a life full of complications. Brother Bear’s grades are slipping, Sister Bear still has a few things to learn about making new friends, and Papa Bear just can’t stop eating junk food. But we can always depend on Mama Bear and her loving patience to help set things right. “A fantastic experience for kids!” NYTheatre.com

Curriculum Connections: literature based, theatre arts, language arts, social studies, health and physical education, relationships

Recommended for grades Pre-K-2

Tickets: $8; $6/groups of 20 or more

God Don’ Like Ugly at Venus Theatre, Mar 19-Apr 12

God Don’ Like Ugly at Venus Theatre, Mar 19-Apr 12

God Don’ Like Ugly at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, March 19 to April 12, 2015
by Doc Andersen Bloomfield
Venus Theatre World Premiere

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens March 19, 2015
Closes April 12, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Issues/themes: love; living with a mentally disabled child (the carer and the cared for); domestic violence; magic.

Parental Advisory: Adult themes.

Description: Esme loves to sing and dance, dressing up in costumes, performing her ‘Golden Oldies’ to an imaginary audience. Today is Esme’s 36th birthday and because she has the mental age of a seven year old, she still lives with her tired and overwhelmed mother, Bessie, (a Tarot reader) in a dilapidated old crumbling home, set in the rural South. Esme has a twin, not seen for quite awhile. Heartsick Bessie yearns for the twin, who’s ‘the okay one’ to come home to celebrate. This will never happen and only Esme seems to understand this. A stranger, on the run, named SJ, enters their small lives, seeking to hide from a violent partner. She encounters the extraordinary, both in the human beings who live there as well as their magic of simply ‘being’.

A realistic (but magical) tragicomedy set in America’s rural south, with intermittent Physical Theatre Scenes.

About the playwright: Doc currently writes with Oxford Playwrights and for Oxford Actors’ Network. Other past works in progress/rehearsed readings include: Women’s ‘Theatre Workshop (Oval; Finborough; Drill Hall; Soho in London). Doc is an American who has lived and written in Oxford, England, the last 28 years. She was one of the founding mothers of Women In Theatre, in Los Angeles.

Tickets $20. Buy here.

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 7pm

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

BCT’s Murder Mystery Troupe will present the interactive Murder Mystery

Death Plays a Role

Eileen Sullivan, the Irish actress whose fame extends to both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, was the star attraction at the Killarney Lake Theatre last night in the premiere performance of Pader O’Connor’s new play, Death Be Not Pretentious.

O’Connor, for reasons known but to himself, had not authored a play for two decades. This new production was to have been his triumphant return to prominence as a playwright. And – in what was considered a major coup – he was able to secure Sullivan for the lead role. Not only would he be assured of presenting a stellar theatrical attraction, but he would also be certain that the story of his return to the theatre would be covered by members of the international press.

Yet, as Sullivan was acting out the scene that would make this play one for the ages, she suddenly grabbed at her throat and fell to the stage. At first, the hushed audience thought this was part of the plot, but it soon became apparent that the actress would no longer appear in front of the footlights. She was dead.

Now, who could aspire to take her place and be recognized as one of the 10 greatest living actresses in the British Isles?