Category Archives: Play

Love Letters at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 2 at 2pm

Love Letters at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 2 at 2pm

Sunday November 2, 2014 for one performance only!

Love Letters
by A. R. Gurney
Directed by Maureen Rogers
Produced by Maureen Rogers

One performance only, at 2:00 PM.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. 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.

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Basetrack at Clarice Smith, Nov 1

Basetrack at Clarice Smith, Nov 1

Basetrack: A Multimedia Music Performance Experience

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Sat, Nov 1, 2014 . 8:00PM

Tickets: Regular: $25, Student: $10. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

Description: A group of photojournalists documented Marines in Afghanistan by taking photographs and videos using only an iPhone. This material, which enabled military families to communicate with their loved ones, began to tell an important story of ordinary people fundamentally changed by extraordinary circumstances.

The artful power of these images, a live musical score and spoken work text from Marines themselves come together in a riveting multimedia experience that reflect the uncertainties and separation that is a byproduct of war on families and communities.

Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Death Takes a Holiday at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 7-23

Death Takes a Holiday at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 7-23

Friday November 7, 2014 through Sunday November 23, 2014
Death Takes a Holiday
by Walter Ferris
Directed by Mark T. Allen
Produced by Maureen C. Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

This striking drama is based on the poetic conception of death suspending all activities for three days during which he falls in love with a beautiful girl and through her realizes why mortals fear him. The character who symbolizes Death is a very human person, with no conventional claptrap dragged in for mere effect. Here is a play that stimulates discussion and presents a novel and optimistic philosophy of the problems of love and death.

Performances run weekends from Friday November 7, 2014 through Sunday November 23, 2014 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 $12. 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.

The Murder Room by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Oct 31-Nov 15

The Murder Room by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Oct 31-Nov 15

The Murder Room
by Jack Sharkey

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances: October 31 to November 15, 2014.

Description: Mavis Templeton Hollister returns home for the night to Brynwood Cottage in northern England, surprised that her new husband, Edgar Hollister is still alive. Her aim must have been terrible since she shot him three times! After filing a missing persons report on her husband, Mavis is visited by the police who inform Mavis that her cat was found dead from ingesting a poisoned cup of cocoa meant for Edgar. Do you think she’s trying to kill her husband? Add to the zaniness, Susan Hollister, the dimmest bulb in the chandelier, and Edgar’s only child by his first wife. Mavis is distressed to learn that upon Edgar’s death, the bulk of his estate will go to Susan. But if the girl suddenly dies . . .

Week 1: October 31st and November 1st at 8 pm, November 2nd at 2 pm
Week 2: November 7th at 8 pm, November 8th at 2pm and 8 pm, November 9th at 2 pm
Week 3: November 14th and 15th at 8pm

Adults – $20.00
Seniors/Students – $15.00
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Seussical by Bowie High School at the Bowie CPA, Oct 31-Nov 9

Seussical by Bowie High School at the Bowie CPA, Oct 31-Nov 9

Seussical! Bowie High School Musical

Presented by: Bowie High School

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Friday October 31 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday November 1 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 2 @ 2:30 pm
Friday November 7 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 8 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, November 9 @ 2:30 pm

SPECIAL FOR HALLOWEEN ONLY: This is also opening night, so children 12 & under in costume will be admitted free with paying adult!

General Admission Tickets: $10 adults or $7 seniors, students and children. Cash. Ticket sales at the Bowie CPA box office Monday-Thursday 4PM-7PM starting October 27 and 1 hour before shows.

Directed by Ms. Heather Harris, choreographer for last year’s Beauty and the Beast, and with musical direction by BHS music teacher, Dr. Janna Ryan, this year’s cast features students from grades nine through twelve.

Seussical! is based on the Dr. Seuss books: Horton Hears a Who!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Horton Hatches the Egg, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, McElligot’s Pool, Hunches in Bunches, If I Ran the Circus, The Butter Battle Book, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!, The Cat in the Hat, The Sneetches and Other Stories, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. Story: The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to a butter battling military school for thinking too many “thinks.” Horton’s attention to the speck of dust and his “loitering” care of Mayzie LaBird’s egg has elicited taunting and accusations from the rest of the animal kingdom, except for Gertrude McFuzz, who longs for his attention, and JoJo, whose “thinks” save them all in the end.