Thunderous Productions present
Black Coffee
by Agatha Christie
directed by Rick Starkweather
July 6 – 15, 2018
July 6, 7, 13, 14 at 8PM
Sunday matinees: July 8 & 15 at 2PM
Location: Greenbelt Arts Center
Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $20 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult). Buy tickets here.
Laughing Stock
by Charles Morey
Directed by Daniel Johnston
Assistant Directed by Michael Hartsfield
Produced by Maureen Rogers
Friday June 29, 2018 through Sunday July 15, 2018
Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse
LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley’s Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. We follow the well-intentioned but over-matched company from outrageous auditions to ego-driven rehearsals through opening nights gone disastrously awry to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close.
“—a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric acting—the large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold…” —Salt Lake Tribune. “LAUGHING STOCK soars as farce…” —Salt Lake City Weekly. “The delightful thing…is that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrong…and a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together…these are all type characters but Morey adeptly deepens and individualizes each one…The Dracula section and a rehearsal of Charley’s Aunt where the actors improvise being animals at dusk around an African water hole are comic high point…” —Event (Salt Lake City). “LAUGHING STOCK will indeed have you laughing in your seat if not rolling in the aisles…It’s hard to imagine anyone whose funny bone wouldn’t be tickled by this one…it’s a hoot…it’s a blast…” —Monadnock Ledger (NH). “Scene after scene, beat after beat, LAUGHING STOCK piles on the laughs…every single piece crackles with successful wit and abundant humor…virtuoso farce…” —Keene Sentinel (NH). “I cried, I choked, I fell into a coughing fit, I cried some more…can’t help but love this play.” —Nashua Telegraph (NH).
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Publishing Company. Performances run weekends from Friday June 29, 2018 through Sunday July 15, 2018 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $17. Tickets can be purchased by clicking the link below. For further information, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.
Buy tickets here.
Stravinsky’s Petrushka
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
Saturday, June 30, 2018 . 8 PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre
The National Orchestral Institute + Festival revives Doug Fitch’s groundbreaking production of Stravinsky’s Petrushka first created in 2008 at the University of Maryland and later seen in performances by the New York Philharmonic. The ballet score is infused with orchestra participation, puppeteers, live video, and much more.
Program:
Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911)
Tickets: $29 General Admission, $10 Students, click here.
Ally Theatre Company presents:
#poolparty
by Jennifer Mendenhall
Directed by Angelisa Gillyard
June 23 – July 21, 2018
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8PM
Matinees at 2PM on Saturday and 4PM on Sunday
Community Preview Friday June 22nd at 8PM
Saturday, June 23rd at 2 pm & 8pm
Thursday, June 28 at 8 pm
Friday, June 29 at 8 pm
Saturday, June 30 at 2 pm & 8pm
Sunday, July 1 at 4 pm
Thursday, July 5 at 8 pm
Friday, July 6 at 8 pm
Saturday, July 7 at 2 pm & 8pm
Sunday, July 8 at 4 pm
Industry Night Monday July 9th at 8PM
Thursday, July 12 at 8 pm
Friday, July 13 at 8 pm
Saturday, July 14 at 2 pm & 8pm
Sunday, July 15 at 4 pm
Extended through July 21
Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium
#poolparty is a thought-provoking play about the history of swimming pools, the desegregation of a private swim club, and how the legacy of racism in the water continues to affect us all. Recommended for all ages.
Tickets $25 General Admission, $15 Students and Veterans. Click here.
THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT AND GREENBELT
Featuring an 80th anniversary presentation of Betty Smith’s one-act play:
What Are You Going To Be?
Greenbelt Community Center Auditorium, 15 Crescent Road
Saturday, June 23, 2018, 7:00pm
Sunday, June 24, 2018, 3:00pm
This 80th anniversary multi-media event, hosted by Chris Cherry, will recount the highlights of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project and its connections with Greenbelt and the town’s first amateur theatrical group, the Greenbelt Players. The program will include a narration and slideshow, song performances by talented Greenbelt vocalists, and a presentation of the one-act Federal Theatre Project play, What Are You Going To Be? The play, recently rediscovered in the FTP archives at the Library Of Congress, was presented by the Greenbelt Players in the Greenbelt Community Center auditorium eighty years ago, on June 23, 1938. The play’s author, Betty Smith, was then a struggling writer, whose employment by the Federal Theater Project enabled her to keep writing. She eventually produced the world-famous novel, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. The novel’s central characters, Francie Nolan and her family, were sketched by Smith in the one-act play. The Old Greenbelt Theatre will show the film version of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, on Monday, June 25, giving Greenbelters the opportunity to trace echoes of the play in the film. Following the multi-media presentation and play performance on June 23, a reception will be held to mark the opening of the new permanent exhibit, The Federal Theater Project and Greenbelt.
Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.
Tickets: $5
For tickets, call 301-397-2208 or visit the Community Center business office.
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