Category Archives: Play

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

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

by Lisa Loomer

February 14-22, 2014

Director Kris Messer

Presented By:
University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kogood Theatre. General Admission.

Click Here to Buy Tickets:
Regular: $25
Subscriber: $20
Senior Citizen: $20
UMD Alumni Association: $20
UMD Faculty & Staff: $20
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, Feb 14, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 15, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 16, 2014 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 19, 2014 . 7:30PM
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 . 7:30PM
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 7:30PM

Description:

Lisa Loomer’s 1994 play is a dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty — and its cost. Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor’s waiting room.

Forgiveness From Heaven is an 18th-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. Victoria is a 19th-century English woman suffering from what is commonly known as “hysteria.” Then there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts.

Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination in this wild ride through medical and sexual politics.

The playwright — who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl, Interrupted — often deals with the experiences of Latinos and Hispanic Americans and with various aspects of contemporary family life. For her work on The Waiting Room, she won the 1994 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and the 1995 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award.