Auditions for The Children’s Hour by Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 1 & 2

Auditions for The Children’s Hour by Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 1 & 2

The Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Children’s Hour
By Lillian Hellman
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell

Saturday, February 1, 2pm to 5pm
Sunday, February 2, 7pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Auditions will be held at the Greenbelt Arts Center, located at 123 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, on Saturday, February 1, between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. and on Sunday, February 2, starting at 7:00 p.m. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Callbacks, if necessary, will be held on Monday, February 3, at 7:00 p.m. Call the producer, Malca Giblin, at 301-864-3060, for more information.

Rehearsals will be held two nights and on Saturdays each week to start then three nights and Saturdays from mid-March, leading up to nine performances beginning on April 17 and ending on May 3. Be prepared to detail all conflicts you may have throughout the rehearsal and performance schedule.

The play, which premiered in 1934, was a professional success for the playwright, Lillian Hellman. Set in a private school for girls, the play explores how lying, bullying, and the insidious effect of slanderous innuendo can upend plans and lives.

For more information and the form to fill in, click here.

Rude Mechanicals present Love’s Labours Lost at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 31-Feb 9

Rude Mechanicals present Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 31-Feb 9

The Rude Mechanicals present
Love’s Labour’s Lost
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Liana Olear

January 31 – February 9, 2020

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost is a comedy best known for its witty wordplay – the clever characters speak in puns, and less clever ones in malapropisms. The Rude Mechanicals’ production uses a modern setting, with cell phones, selfies and social media, to showcase Shakespeare’s timeless themes. But, spoiler – the ending is in the play’s name, and if ever you were annoyed at Romeo and Juliet’s brief acquaintance (coming soon!) being touted as love for the ages, perhaps you’ll appreciate an exploration of a much more sensible alternative.

Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

SHiFTing TECHNOLOGiA at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 31-Feb 2

SHiFTing TECHNOLOGiA at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 31-Feb 2

Shawn Stone & Movement Graffiti:
SHiFTiNG TECHNOLOGiA

Friday, January 31 at 8 pm
Saturday, February 1 at 8 pm
Sunday, February 2nd at 4 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Calling upon the wild of our survival consciousness, SHiFTiNG TECHNOLOGiA melds this with precise movement as a technology of the future. At the inner-section of dance/movement, visual art and voice this work seek to evoke creation as communication. …that we ARE the language of our past and also the story of our future.

“In the very earliest time, when both people and animals lived on earth, a person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Sometimes they were people and sometimes animals and there was no difference. All spoke the same language. That was the time when words were like magic. The human mind had mysterious powers…. Nobody could explain this: That’s the way it was.”
~Translated by poet, Edward Field in ‘Magic Words: From the Ancient Oral Tradition of the Inuit

Tickets $10 (limited early); $20 advance, $25 door, $17 senior/student Click here.

I AM WOMB and Champagne Party for Time Travelers at Clarice Smith, Jan 31-Feb 1

I AM WOMB and Champagne Party for Time Travelers at Clarice Smith, Jan 31-Feb 1

Second Season: “I AM WOMB” and “Champagne Party for Time Travelers”
January 31 – February 1, 2020

Fri, Jan 31, 2020 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, general admission.

I AM WOMB
Choreographed by Gabriela Grant

Grant explores how colored female bodies are crafted and presented in the eyes of institutions. She examines their femininity and masculinity and how this contributes to their commodification. It also explores how this impacts women’s relationships between one another. The work fuses her movement from her African and urban movement training, as well as her modern dance training. One question Grant presents and invites the audience to think about is, “How can women reclaim the power in their femininity?”

Champagne Party for Time Travelers
Written and Choreographed by Sydney Lemelin and Hana Huie

This piece is based on the real party that famed physicist Stephen Hawking threw for time travelers, for which he sent invitations after the party ended. Lemelin and Huie combine theater and dance to explore the journey of believing in things that do not exist and pursuing what is important to us, however insignificant we may be in the universe.

Free, no tickets required. Click here.

Thais at Clarice Smith, Jan 30-Feb 1

Thais at Clarice Smith, Jan 30-Feb 1

Maryland Lyric Opera presents
Thaïs
by Jules Massanet

Thu, Jan 30, 2020 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 . 2:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre.

A new production of Massenet’s rarely produced Thaïs. Claudia Zahn directs this new production in collaboration with scenic and lighting designer Harry Feiner. Sarah Joy Miller, a rising American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut last season, sings the iconic title role. Louis Otey co-stars as Athanaël, and MDLO Young Artist Institute alumni Joseph Michael Brent, Hunter Enoch, Caroline Hewitt, Sarah Joyce Cooper, and Hayan Kim round out the cast. Music Director Louis Salemno leads the MDLO Orchestra interpreting Massenet’s powerful score.

Tickets: $10 to $75. Click here.