Beech Tree Puppets present The Hollow Stump at the Greenbelt Community Center, Feb 5 at 3pm

Beech Tree Puppets present The Hollow Stump at the Greenbelt Community Center, Feb 5 at 3pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Performance and craft workshop are free.

1-3pm: craft workshop – make a mixed media wreath with artist Karla Lawrence. Materials provided, but bring any embellishments you’d like to include.

3pm: Greenbelt’s own Beech Tree Puppets performs “The Hollow Stump”. Seven very different animals seek shelter from the winter cold and snow. Adapted from the popular folktale The Mitten, this story celebrates community as the animals learn to share one space.

1-4pm: studio open house and sale with the Community Center’s Artists in Residence. Beautiful and affordable paintings, prints, fiber arts, ceramics, funky jewelry, notecards and more!

1-4pm: visit the art gallery and the Greenbelt Museum exhibit room. Enjoy paintings by Mike McConnell and a display about Lenore Thomas Straus, the artist who created Greenbelt’s iconic Mother and Child statue.

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark
Celebrating Black History
Presented by The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Written, produced and directed by Darrell Godfrey.

Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2 & 7 PM

Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 2:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

In 1936, 70 years after the legal end of slavery in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a historical research project commissioned by the Library of Congress. The goal of this enormous project was to locate and interview African Americans who had been born into slavery during the early to mid-1800s.

More than 2,300 former slaves were interviewed; survivors of one of this country’s darkest periods. Their stories became what are now known as the WPA Slave Narratives. Several of these incredible stories are brought to life in the original stage production “Voices in the Dark.”

Tickets: $10, or Free for M-NCPPC employees. Get tickets here.

Tags: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park Maryland, Voices in the Dark, Darrell Godfrey, M-NCPPC

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflón, el silencio del carbón
Silencio Blanco
February 2 – 3, 2017 . 8PM

Thu, Feb 2, 2017 . 8:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 8:00PM

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

Silencio Blanco explores voice through the power of silence in a world where corporate greed feeds corruption. A young man is thrown out of the coal pit where he works, and in a precarious attempt to protect his livelihood and support his family, takes on a new job in the infamously sinister mine El Chiflón del Diablo. Meanwhile, a community copes with this danger in its midst and the uncertainty it sparks in their every day lives. Performing in complete silence using minimalistic marionettes, puppetry ensemble Silencio Blanco spins a universal story of humanity in the face of hardship, highlighting those who are often forgotten behind sensational headlines.

Tickets: General Public $25, Student/Youth $10, NextLEVEL $20. Buy tickets here.

Auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jan 31

Auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jan 31

Auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Jen Sizer
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Will be held at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on Tuesday January 31 at 7:00.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Director Jen Sizer will be casting 11 men and 3 women. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Bring resume and headshot (if available) and list of conflicts from February 5th through April 16th, 2017.

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; the antics of their nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other nephew…

For more information click here.

Auditions for Tribute at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 30 & 31

Auditions for Tribute at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 30 & 31

Auditions for Tribute
By Bernard Slade
Directed by Gayle Negri

Will be held at the Greenbelt Arts Center on Monday January 30, and Tuesday January 31 at 7:30. Call-backs if needed will be Thursday, February 2.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The Story: Scottie Templeton’s a charming, irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter, he’s everyone’s friend, nobody’s hero and a great womanizer who’s managed to live over fifty years without taking anything seriously including love, marriage, and fatherhood. Life has been one continuous gag. But a fifty-one, he finds the script’s been rewritten as a tragedy; he is fatally ill. His son Jud, alienated by years of neglect, comes to visit. Scottie’s one concern is to make friends with his son, for everyone else adores Scottie including his ex-wife, his friend and boss, and his doctor. Tribute is a warm, funny, touching play with wonderful characters.

For more information and a list of roles to be cast, click here.