Category Archives: Play

The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 8-24, 2013

The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Nov 8-24, 2013

by Martin McDonagh

Directed by Joshua McKerrow

Produced by Maureen Rogers

Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday November 8, 2013 through Sunday November 24, 2013

An Irish terrorist of the early 90s returns home, hell-bent on finding the person who crushed the skull of his black tomcat and left him for dead on the side of the road. Human cadavers quickly accumulate in Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black comedy.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Performances run weekends from Friday November 8, 2013 through Sunday November 24, 2013 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.

Bowie High School presents Beauty and the Beast at the Bowie CPA, Nov 8-17

Bowie High School presents Beauty and the Beast at the Bowie CPA, Nov 8-17

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Fridays and Saturdays, November 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7:30pm
Sundays, November 10 and 17 at 2:30pm

Bowie High School presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

General admission tickets are $10, or $7 for seniors, students and children.

Tickets may be purchased 1 hour before showtime when doors open. Pre-Sales: You may pick up tickets between 4-7pm on these dates: October 28, 29, 30 November 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 You may also leave a reservation message at 301-805-6880 x56 or by email at bowiehightickets@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation reply. All unpaid tickets will be released 15 minutes prior to showtime.

Molière Impromptu at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Nov 8-16

Molière Impromptu at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Nov 8-16

Translated and adapted by Rinne Groff

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kogood Theatre. General Admission.

November 8-16, 2013

Director Matthew R. Wilson

Presented By:
University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

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Fri, Nov 8, 2013 . 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 10, 2013 . 2:00PM
Sun, Nov 10, 2013 . 7:30PM
Wed, Nov 13, 2013 . 7:30PM
Thu, Nov 14, 2013 . 7:30PM
Fri, Nov 15, 2013 . 7:30PM
Sat, Nov 16, 2013 . 2:00PM
Sat, Nov 16, 2013 . 7:30PM

Description:

Based on three short plays by Molière, Molière Impromptu is a wickedly funny look at the magic of theatre.

Set in 1665 Versailles, the play presents a director’s nightmare as the members of Molière’s Illustre Theatre gather to rehearse a new play commissioned by the King for a performance that very night. The script is in horrible shape, the straight man wants to leave the troupe, marital spats are ripping the company apart, the intern is lobbying for a bigger part and the lead actress can never remember her lines.

First performed by Trinity Repertory Company in 2005, the play is a contemporary take on the works of one of the great masters of Western comedy.

Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, Nov 7-Dec 1

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, Nov 7-Dec 1

by Claudia Barnett

November 7 to December 1

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Thursday, November 7 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 8 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 9 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 10 at 3:00pm
Thursday, November 14 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 15 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 16 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 17 at 3:00pm
Thursday, November 21 at 8:00pm
Friday, November 22 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 23 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, November 24 at 3:00pm
Saturday, November 30 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, December 1 at 3:00pm

Description: Kate Stoddard murdered Charles Goodrich in 1873–after he told her they weren’t really married and had her evicted from his Brooklyn brownstone in a blizzard. Kate’s struggles to maintain her sanity and her identity, both before and after she shot her one true love three times in the head, are the subject of this play, which moves backwards and forwards through time and invokes a poetry of madness.

A note on the title: Virginia Woolf imagined a sister for Shakespeare, an artist chastened for her gender and derided for her vision. Unable to act or write, she “killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads.” Claudia Barnett imagines a similarly metaphorical sister for Emily Dickinson. Kate Stoddard was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1847, about a hundred miles from the reclusive Amherst poet. Inspired by Woolf’s musings, Dickinson’s poetry, and Stoddard’s tragic life, No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister asks: How might the same impulse lead one woman to poetry and another to murder?

Claudia Barnett teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University. She has developed two previous scripts, Feather and Another Manhattan, with Venus Theatre. She wrote No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister as playwright-in-residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, and she wrote Witches Vanish as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre. Her book I Love You Terribly: Six Plays is published by Carnegie Mellon (2012).

“When … one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs … I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Brontë who dashed her brains out on the moor …”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“She had cultivated a romantic disposition by a liberal perusal of story papers and novels, and it is more than likely that cheap literature is the prime cause of all her woes and misfortunes.”

The Goodrich Horror:
Being the full confession of Kate Stoddart, or Lizzie King
Thanks for letting the girl talk.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: Ages 16+ – 731 covers rich literary territory with an amazing physical element that has a kind of violence always brewing just under the surface.

Tickets: General Admission $20. Purchase tickets on-line.

Suggested meal before the show: Fajita, or anything that sizzles on a hot pan.
Tampico Tex-Mex Restaurant
42 Washington Blvd
Laurel, MD 20707
301.490.5300

Synetic Theater Pantomine for Youth presents Cowardly Christopher Finds His Courage at Harmony Hall, Nov 6, 10:30am

Synetic Theater Pantomine for Youth presents Cowardly Christopher Finds His Courage at Harmony Hall, Nov 6, 10:30am
Wednesday, November 6, 10:30 am

Kids Day Out: Synetic Theater: Pantomine for Youth Presents
“Cowardly Christopher Finds His Courage”

Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili has created one of the only professional Pantomime Theatre repertories for youth in the U.S. He uses Georgian (former Republic of the Soviet Union) pantomime traditions combined with dance, clowning, and music to create a professional pantomime repertoire for all ages. Tsikurishvili and Resident Choreographer, Irina Tsikurishvili, have been nominated twelve times for the prestigious Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C. Irina has won four times for Choreography, and Paata has won Best Director and Best Resident Play.

All Ages

Tickets: $5/Person