Running on Glass at Venus Theatre, Nov 15-Dec 9

Running on Glass at Venus Theatre, Nov 15-Dec 9

Running on Glass
By Cynthia Cooper

September 20 – October 14, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

A sports scholar entices her friend, a designer and running buddy, to help envision a pop-up museum about women in sports. Six characters from sports history come alive, along with the challenges and successes of diverse people in any field of endeavor. Told in monologues by the two performers, the stories include Althea Gibson, first person to break the color barrier in tennis; Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel; Wilma Rudolph, an African-American Olympic runner who overcame childhood polio; Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish-German athlete used by the Nazis for propaganda; Babe Didrikson, one of the best all-round athletes of any gender, and Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson, a professional pitcher in the Negro Leagues. For ages 8 and up.

Tickets are $40 General Admission, $20 for Friend of Venus, $15 for Student or Senior. Buy tickets here. Venus is selling “Friend of Venus” Membership cards. The cost is $5 and the card allows for ½ price tickets through 2018 and specials and discounts at local Laurel businesses. More information will be available on venustheatre.org

Crazytown by Dematha High School, Nov 9-11

Crazytown by Dematha High School, Nov 9-11

Dematha High School Players present
Crazytown
by Jonathan Rand

Friday, Nov 9, 2018 at 7:30pm
Saturday, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:30pm
Sunday, Nov 11, 2018 at 2:00pm

Location: DeMatha Catholic High School.

The DeMatha Players are proud to present Jonathan Rand’s Crazytown, a fun farce of a local news team and the inhabitants of their crazy town. Please come support the Players in their return to DeMatha’s campus after many years away! Performances are in DeMatha’s Old Gym.

Tickets are $5. Click here.

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Eleanor Roosevelt High School Theatre Department presents:
Antigone
by Sophocles
Translated by Nicholas Rudall

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.

November 14 – 16, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7pm
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7pm
Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7pm

Tickets: $5. Click here.

Auditions for Disgraced by Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 12-13

Auditions for Disgraced by Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 12-13

Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
directed by Bob Kleinberg

Auditions for Disgraced, directed by Bob Kleinberg, will be held at the theater on Monday November 12 and Tuesday November 13, at 7:00 PM at Greenbelt Arts Center. Callbacks on Thursday, November 15, if needed.

Monday, November 12 and Tuesday, November 13, 2018, from 7 pm to 10 pm

Performances: March 8 – 30, 2019

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar, is the taut drama of Amir Kapoor, an up and coming Muslim American lawyer who has rejected his religious background as overly rigid. Yet, at the insistence of his nephew and Islamic-inspired artist wife Emily, he chooses to attend the trial of an Imam who is charged with financially supporting the Hamas. At a dinner party that includes Amir’s coworker Jory, who is African American, and her husband, Isaac, Emily’s agent, who is Jewish, truths spill out that put Amir’s life in a new perspective. The show presents competing themes of assimilation versus exclusion, religious beliefs versus culture and tolerance versus prejudice.

For more information, click here.

Tags: Auditions, Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Disgraced, Bob Kleinberg, Ayad Akhtar

Pirates of Penzance at Bishop McNamara High School, Nov 9-18

Pirates of Penzance at Bishop McNamara High School, Nov 9-18

Bishop McNamara High School presents
The Pirates of Penzance
by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
directed by Mary Mitchell-Donahue

November 11 – 18, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays November 9, 10, 16 & 17 at 7:30 pm
Sundays November 11 & 18 at 2:00 pm

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

This year, The BMHS Theatre Program is excited to announce the fall musical as Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance.

Set sail with this classic comedy, a hopeful farce that follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates. He disavows the pirates’ way of life and falls for the beautiful Mabel. Frederic’s melodious tones win over the heart of Major-General Stanley’s songbird daughter, Mabel, but when the Pirate King discovers that General Stanley has lied about being an orphan to keep the pirates from stealing all of his belongings and carrying off his bevy of beautiful daughters, an “ingenious paradox” may prevent the budding romance and lead to the death of “The very model of a modern Major-General.”

Tickets: $10. To purchase tickets, click here.

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