8th Annual Theatre Festival
Location: Laurel High School.
Selected Elementary, Middle and High School theatre students will be in workshops all day and selected groups will showcase their work in a culminating production at 6:00 p.m.
Admission is $5.00. (Children under 5 are free)
For more information contact:
Patricia Payne
301-808-8256
patpayne@pgcps.org
Take Laughter With You
The Second Annual Benefit for Clowns Without Borders
Joe’s Movement Emporium
Warning: Show may provoke, laughter, wonder, and hope against all odds!
Saturday, March 17th, 2018 at 6pm
Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium
The second annual benefit is a true variety show: Clean comedy for adults and kids and all kinds of circus and variety arts. Each year, top-notch performers volunteer their time and talent to wow audiences for a great cause. Proceeds of the show support CWB-USA’s work of relieving suffering through laughter in areas of crisis all over the world. This show will support CWB’s tour in the Balkans where hundreds of thousands of refugees are seeking asylum.
The event is hosted by CWB Board Member and performing artist, Kolleen Kintz, and includes performances by the area’s top performers. Expect variety including acrobatics, aerialists, comedy, and juggling by Christian Kloc, Drew Richardson, Anthony Oliva, Elise Sipos, Jane Bryan, Julia Quigley, Kiersten VanHouten, Krystan Silva, Lessie Longstreet, Kim DeAngelis, Sophia DeAngelis, and Matthew Pauli. The evening also includes performances by Clowns Without Borders performing artists Bobby Kintz, Brendon Gawel, Alex Orthwein and Kaitlin Kaufman.
Hosted by Her Royal Silliness Kolleen Kintz
With knock out acts including:
Drew The Dramatic Fool Richardson
Nimble-fingered Juggler Christian Kloc
Courageous Subdeur of Savage Creatures Matthew Pauli
Audacious and Indomitable Acrobatics : Julia Quigley, Anthony Oliva, Lessie Longstreet, and Kiersten VanHouten
Aerial Sensations Krystan Silva, Jane Bryan, Elise Sipos, Kim DeAngelis & Sophia DeAngelis
And the CWB Clown Crew : Alex Orthwein, Bobby Kintz, Brendon Gawel, and Kaitlin Kaufman
Doors open at 5:30pm, with a 6:00pm curtain. All tickets are $20, and may be purchased online at: http://bit.ly/2BcQuUt or at the door. For additional information, visit http://www.clownswithoutborders.org
Bishop McNamara High School presents
The Diviners
By Jim Leonard Jr.
March 16 – 18, 2018
Friday – March 16th – 7:30 pm
Saturday – March 17th – 7:30 pm
Sunday – March 18th – 2:00 pm
Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.
This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma, and the loss of his mother in the same accident, has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy’s father. The town doesn’t have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach – while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns.
Tickets are $10, and can be purchased here.
For more information click here.
Midweek Matinee
Flight School: The Musical
Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse
Flight School: The Musical Penguin is excited to go to the first day of Flight School, where they teach birds to fly. Although Penguin is ready to live on the wind he wasn’t built to soar, as the other birds constantly remind him. But Penguin’s spirit won’t be grounded, so with the help of some friends, Penguin follows his dreams to flip, flap, fly! Based on the popular book by Lita Judge.
Recommended for grades Pre-K-3
Tickets: $8/person; $6/person in groups of 20 or more. This performance is supported by a grant from the GEICO philanthropic foundation; free tickets are available for qualifying Title 1 schools.
Frankenstein
By Victor Gialanella
Adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley.
Directed by: Brian Douglas
NOTICE: This production contains scenes which simulate intense violence and death, with victims that include women, a young boy, and a dog. Please give due consideration to this before purchasing any tickets.
March 9-25, 2018
Week 1: March 9th and 10th at 8 pm, March 11th at 2 pm
Week 2: March 16th at 8 pm, March 17th at 2pm and 8 pm, March 18th at 2 pm
Week 3: March 23rd and 24th at 8pm, March 25th at 2pm
Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse
Set in nineteenth-century Switzerland, this classic tale of horror and suspense details the ill-fated experiments of young Dr. Frankenstein as he attempts to fathom the secrets of life and death. Purchasing cadavers from two unsavory grave robbers, he gives life to a creature both hideous and touching—and so physically powerful and mentally twisted that he soon brings death or destruction to all who stand in his way. Adhering more closely to the original novel than did the famous motion picture versions, the play blends moments of brooding terror and sudden shock with questions of morality and the dangers of unrestrained scientific inquiry.
General Admission – $22.00, Seniors (62+) & Students – $17.00.
Group Rates(10 or more people): General Admission, Seniors (62+), Students – $15.00.
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