Category Archives: Play

Come Back to the Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 21 – Mar 13

Come Back to the Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 21 – Mar 13

By Ed Graczyk
Directed by Frank Akers
Auditions: December 5 & 7

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Performances:
Friday and Saturday at 8pm, February 21 – March 13;
Sunday at 2pm, March 2 & 9, 2014.

Description: The Disciples of James Dean commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death. The party reveals in real time and flashback the truth about their complicated lives. But who is the mysterious Joanne whom they think they’ve never met, and what is the real truth about Mona’s son, Jimmy Dean? With Winard Britt, Rosalie Daelemans, Elizabeth Dapo, Rachel Duda, Barbara Lambert, Gayle Negri, Kristen Peck, Linda Sellner, and Holly Trout.

Friday & Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 2:00
(The closing performance, March 15th, is at 2:00)

Ticket prices: $17 General Admission, $14 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Child (12 and under with adult)

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A Soldier’s Play by 2nd Star Productions at the Charis Center, Feb 21 – Mar 9

A Soldier’s Play by 2nd Star Productions at the Charis Center, Feb 21 – Mar 9

2nd Star Productions Presents
“A Soldier’s Play” by Charles Fuller
Directed by Jane Wingard; Produced by Cheramie Jackson

Charis Center for the Arts
13010 8th Street
Bowie, MD 20720

Performances will be February 21, 22, 23, 28 and March 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at the Charis Center for the Arts

Parental advisory: adult themes.

A black sergeant cries out in the night, “They still hate you,” then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller’s forceful drama – which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 – tracks the investigation of this murder. “A Soldier’s Play” is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks, and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers, and assigns no simple blame.

All tickets for “A Soldier’s Play” are $15.00

For reservations, call the box office at (410) 757-5700 or (301) 832-4819, or purchase tickets online at this link.

Seven Guitars by Tantallon at Harmony Hall, Feb 21-Mar 9

Seven Guitars by Tantallon at Harmony Hall, Feb 21-Mar 9, 2014

Directed by Rikki Howie.

Tantallon Community Players at Harmony Hall Regional Center in Fort Washington, Maryland.

Friday February 21, 2014 through Sunday March 9, 2014. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm.

Description: The 1940s installment of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle explores one African-American man’s fight for his own humanity, self-understanding and self-acceptance in the face of personal and societal ills. Described as “part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy and part mystery”, Seven Guitars is another Wilson masterpiece.

Ticket prices: (to be confirmed) $15 adults, $12 students and seniors, $10 for groups of 10 or more (in advance.) Click here to buy tickets on-line.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 21 – Mar 9

Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 21 – Mar 9

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Directed by Stephen Deininger
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Fridays and Saturdays, Feb 21, 22, 28, March 7, 8 at 8:00pm
There will be no performance on Saturday March 1.
Sunday matinees on March 2 and March 9, both at 2:00 PM.

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso’ agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. Performances run weekends from Friday February 21, 2014 through Sunday March 9, 2014 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission. Admission for students (18 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.

WonderWorks presents Are You a Wild Thing? at Bowie State University, Feb 21, 10am

WonderWorks presents Are You a Wild Thing? at Bowie State University, Feb 21, 10am

Description: WonderWorks is a new professional theater company at Bowie State University that produces shows for young audiences. The company will present Theater for the Very Young: “Are You a Wild Thing?” a production suitable for very young audiences ages 2-4. There will be stories, songs and movements for children, toddler through pre-school to enjoy together with adults.

Location: Main Stage Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University.

Contact: Bob Bartlett
bbartlett@bowiestate.edu
301-860-3769