Category Archives: Play

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre, Jan 21

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre

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.

Murder Plays a Sour Note

It’s New Year’s Eve at The Pitz, the city’s most famous (or is it infamous?) supper club. The usual mix of customers, some noteworthy and some notorious, decorate the tables that surround the crowded dance floor. Everyone in the gregarious group of rarified revelers hoists a glass of champagne and readies their noise makers preparing to celebrate the arrival of the year 1955.

As the clock strikes midnight, Lou Gumbardo and his band, “The Loyal Geraniums,” begin the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. The moment has arrived – a new year that promises to continue the post-war boom of the Eisenhower administration.

Suddenly, without warning, the club is in darkness and, amid the rumbling of the assembled guests, three shots ring out. When the lights go on again, it’s deadly obvious that the darkened room provided a killer with the opportunity to put a strategic bullet hole into a surprised victim. Someone had dictated the dastardly demise of Sammy Fenetra, lead singer of the band. His mellow tones had made women swoon and music fans turn somersaults.

Olive a Murder by Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jan 18

Olive a Murder by Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jan 18, 2015

Sunday January 18, 2015 for one performance only!
LAUREL MILL PLAYHOUSE presents
Mystery Dinner Theater at Olive on Main!!
Murder on Main Street – Olive a Murder!

Produced by: Laurel Mill Playhouse at Olive on Main, 504 Main Street, Laurel MD 20707.

Sunday, January 18, 2015, at 6:00 PM

Cost: $35 (which includes tax and tip) includes Show, Buffet Appetizers which include Hummus, Southwest egg rolls, Caesar Salad, Greek Salad and Crab Flat bread. Buffet Dinner includes Chicken Kabob, Salmon Filet, Beef Kabob, Rice, Green Beans and Veggies. Beverages include Soda, Tea and Coffee. Cash Bar available.

Tickets are $35 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $35. 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.

Buy tickets at this link.

A Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at Olive on Main.
504 Main Street, Laurel MD 20707

Must Purchase Tickets by 12 noon on Saturday, January 17th, 2015.

Poe’s Birthday Bash at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 16-18

Poe’s Birthday Bash at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 16-18, 2015

Poe’s Birthday Bash
A guest production from The Renaissance Man

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17, 2015 at 8:00
Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 2:00

Poe’s greatest detractor (Rufus W. Griswold) invites the public to join him for a delightful evening making light of the Master of the Macabre. An interactive performance in which audience volunteers play characters from The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, and more.

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

A Shot in the Dark by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 9-25

A Shot in the Dark by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 9-25, 2015

A Shot in the Dark, by Marcel Achard
Directed by Keith Brown

Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances are three weekends, January 9 – January 25, 2015

Description: A good hearted, guileless child of nature is hauled before the magistrate on a charge of murder, having been found unconscious, nude, and clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her. What is most shocking to the magistrate is the complete frankness with which she describes her life as a parlor maid and her affairs with both the dead chauffeur and her aristocratic employer. She is so ingenious that the magistrate, at the risk of his juridical neck, decides that she could not have committed the murder. “A bubbling, saucy comedy… A light, tasty soufflé” ~ N.Y. Times.

Julius Caesar at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 9-11

Julius Caesar at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 9-11, 2015

Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
A guest production from The Rude Mechanicals
Directed by Jaki Demarest

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Friday, January 9, 2015 at 8:00
Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 8:00
Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 2:00

“There are no morals in politics, there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel,” – Vladimir Lenin

“In a serious struggle, there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.” – Leon Trotsky

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.” – Joseph Stalin

Welcome, Comrade, to the eve of the glorious revolution. They say that Caesar is ambitious, and sure, they are all honorable men. Men who gather in darkened corners and talk in whispers of righteous murder. Brutus, whose political survival instincts are continually subverted by his intellect and convoluted moral sense, is the Trotsky to Octavius’ surer, more relentless Stalin. And Brutus’ revolution will take the bloody and disastrous course of too many others, ending with a worse tyrant than the one Brutus set himself against.

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