Category Archives: Play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Annapolis Shakespeare Company at the Bowie Playhouse, Dec 6-22

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Annapolis Shakespeare Company at the Bowie Playhouse, Dec 6-22

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kristin Clippard

Location: Annapolis Shakespeare Company at the Bowie Playhouse

December 6-22, 2013. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and Sundays at 3pm.

Tickets: $18 to $24. Buy tickets here.

Spend a Magical Night in the Forest with A Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Winter is upon us, but you can dream away the holiday blues and escape to the forest with Shakespeare’s beloved and enchanting comedy. A whimsical story of romance, mischief and magic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, follows four young lovers on an unseasonably cold night as they stumble into the middle of a quarrel between the Fairy Queen and King. When a group of local rustics rehearsing a play also gets caught up in the madness, the comical haze of spells and confusion seems like it will never clear. But with a little bit of magic, Puck will help make amends. Kristin Clippard directs.

Miracle on 34th Street by Tantallon at Harmony Hall, Dec 6-15

Miracle on 34th Street by Tantallon at Harmony Hall, Dec 6-15

Directed by Juliette Kelsey Chagnon

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

Friday December 6, 2013 through Sunday December 15, 2013. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm.

Description: Follow Santa Claus as his quest to bring the magic of Christmas to one little girl becomes a mission to prove his existence to all of New York — in a court of law! This eternal holiday classic looks to find the place of fantasy and belief in the modern world, themes still as relevant today as they were in 1947.

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

Into the Woods by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Dec 5-7

Into the Woods by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Dec 5-7

by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 5, 6 and; 7 at 7:00pm

Tickets: $6 in advance, $9 at the door.

Description: The Brothers Grimm hit Broadway with an epic fairytale where worlds collide. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together.

The story follows a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella who wishes to attend the King’s Festival, and Jack who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.

One of Sondheim’s most popular works, INTO THE WOODS is a musically sophisticated show with the opportunity to feature actors adept at dark comedy.

INTO THE WOODS performs on December 5, 6, and 7th at 7pm in the Boarman Auditorium at ERHS. Tickets are 6 dollars presale and 9 at the door.

Directed and Designed by Christopher Mannino
Pit Director: Sally Wagner
Stage Manager: Rebecca Bell
Choreography/Assistant Directors: Alyssa Brown and Sofia Zocca
Construction: Amelia Benson and Maliyah Womack
Paints: Suzannah Noyes
Costume Design: Joan Briggs
Props: Kyla Sellers
Lights/Sound: Scott Candey and David Gardner

Presented by special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI).

A Holiday Bistro at Bowie State University, Dec 5-7

A Holiday Bistro at Bowie State University, Dec 5-7

Description: BSU Theatre presents “A Holiday Bistro,” an evening of song, dance, and theatre directed by Professor Elliott Moffitt. Music directed by Dr. Gilbert Pryor.

December 5 – 7 at 7:30pm.

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

Cost: $3 for children; $5 for BSU faculty, staff, students and senior citizens; $10 general admission

Box office opens 1 hour before performances. Call 301-860-3717 for ticket information.

The Inner Landscape at Clarice Smith, Dec 5 at 2pm

The Inner Landscape at Clarice Smith, Dec 5 at 2pm

December 5, 2013, 2pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Cafritz Foundation Theatre.

Free admission, no tickets required.

Description:

The staged reading will feature excerpts of plays by Gao Xingjian, and will be performed by students of THET 489G (Globalization and Theatre).

The playwright Gao Xingjian will be present at the reading, and Dr. Claire Conceison of Duke University will facilitate the discussion. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 and is a renowned writer, painter, and filmmaker. His paintings and films are exhibited at the Art Gallery at UMD until December 20.

The exhibition has been organized by The Art Gallery, curated by Professor Jason C. Kuo (Art History and Archaeology) with the support of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Wang Fangyu Endowment for Calligraphy Education, the Program in Chinese, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Program in French, the Department of French and Italian, the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Film Studies, the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies, and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, all at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Born in 1940, in Jiangxi province in eastern China, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mr. Gao’s interest in theatre, writing, and all things creative was instilled at an early age by his mother, an amateur actress. He began painting at age ten after his uncle gave him a notebook for his birthday. Mr. Gao describes it as “just white papers, no grid and no lines,” and it was in this where he first began writing and drawing simultaneously. Throughout the course of Gao Xingjian’s prolific career, he has had nearly thirty international exhibitions of his ink paintings and, also, illustrates all of the covers of his books.