The Road to Success at the Publick Playhouse, Jan 22

The Road to Success at the Publick Playhouse, Jan 22

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Midweek Matinee
Thursday, January 22, 2015, at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Classroom Character: The Road to Success

With a fun and wacky blend of magic, comedy and total audience involvement, Choosy Suzy and YouDini the Genie give kids a powerful path to stop name-calling and bullying. Challenging the audience members to think about how they treat each other, this entertaining and thought-provoking program shows how students working together can make a school a Bully Free Zone.
Recommended for Grades K-3. Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, Relationships, Character Development, Social Issues.
Tickets $8, $6 groups of 20 or more

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre, Jan 21

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

Murder Plays a Sour Note

It’s New Year’s Eve at The Pitz, the city’s most famous (or is it infamous?) supper club. The usual mix of customers, some noteworthy and some notorious, decorate the tables that surround the crowded dance floor. Everyone in the gregarious group of rarified revelers hoists a glass of champagne and readies their noise makers preparing to celebrate the arrival of the year 1955.

As the clock strikes midnight, Lou Gumbardo and his band, “The Loyal Geraniums,” begin the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. The moment has arrived – a new year that promises to continue the post-war boom of the Eisenhower administration.

Suddenly, without warning, the club is in darkness and, amid the rumbling of the assembled guests, three shots ring out. When the lights go on again, it’s deadly obvious that the darkened room provided a killer with the opportunity to put a strategic bullet hole into a surprised victim. Someone had dictated the dastardly demise of Sammy Fenetra, lead singer of the band. His mellow tones had made women swoon and music fans turn somersaults.

Auditions for 2015 season at The Venus Theatre, Jan 18

Auditions for 2015 season at Venus Theatre Play Shack, Jan 18

Venus Theatre: Feral 15 Casting

Venus Theatre play shack will be casting all roles for the four plays in their 2015 season, including puppeteers, starting the week of January 18, 2015. Email to make an appointment.

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Venus Theatre is committed to more team building and will also enter into the world of puppetry in the 2015 calendar year season.

This year we celebrate women with poetry, song, puppets, and Grimm’s Fairy tale play. Inspired by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, ee cummings, and the Krofft brothers.

Here come scripts 51, 52, 53, and 54!!!

Venus Theatre: Feral 15 Casting

Auditions will take place the week of January 18, 2015. Email submissionsofvenus@gmail.com to schedule an audition on the ½ hours from 3-8 in the evening. Actors please prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue and be prepared to cold read and move. Puppeteers, please prepare a 2 minute contemporary puppet monologue and be prepared to cold read and move.

For further questions call deb (202-236-4078)

For more information including shows and roles, click here.

Auditions for Suite Surrender by Prince George’s Little Theatre, Jan 20 & 22

Auditions for Suite Surrender by Prince George’s Little Theatre, Jan 20 & 22, 2015

“Suite Surrender”, a farce by Michael McKeever, will be PGLT’s third production of the 2014-15 season. It will be directed by John (“Jack”) Degnan.

Auditions for “Suite Surrender” will be held Tuesday, January 20, and Thursday, January 22, 2015 beginning at 7:30 pm. Callbacks, if necessary, will be held on Tuesday, January 27. Auditions and rehearsals are held at the New Carrollton Municipal Center, 6016 Princess Garden Parkway, New Carrollton, MD 20784. Rehearsals will start on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 and will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The production will run for eight performances from Friday, May 1 through Saturday, May 16, 2015 at the Bowie Playhouse.

Synopsis: It’s 1942 and two of Hollywood’s biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel with assistants, luggage, and a legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a lap dog named Mr. Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 1930s and 40s.

For more information see: http://www.pglt.org/auditions.html, or contact Jack Degnan at 301-552-6004 or john.degnan@sigmaspace.com with any questions.

Auditionees will be asked to cold read from selected pages in the script and to provide all conflict dates between February 17 and May 16, 2015.

Prince George’s Little Theatre, Inc. is an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit organization. No roles or positions are paid.

Auditions for Flyin’ West by Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 19 & 20

Auditions for Flyin’ West by Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Jan 19 & 20, 2015

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Auditions for Flyin’ West
By: Pearl Cleage
Directed by: Estelle Miller

Audition dates:
Monday, January 19, 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Performances of Flyin’ West run April 10-25, 2015.

Location: Bowie Playhouse, 16500 Whitemarsh Park Drive, Bowie, MD, 20715

Audition Process: Two-minute memorized monologue required. Cold readings from script will follow. For additional information, call director, Estelle Miller, at 410-757-4193 or email eimiller@cablespeed.com.

Available Roles: All African-American cast.
* 4 women (2 ages 30-40s, 1 age mid 20s, 1 age 60-70s)
* 2 men 30-40s. One male role is the son of an inter-racial relationship, and the actor playing this role must be able to pass for Caucasian.

Synopsis: Following the end of the Civil War, many former slaves, anxious to leave the South and the increasing disappointments and dangers of Reconstruction, took advantage of The Homestead Act and went West to build new lives for themselves and their families. Many of these homesteaders were black women who overcame tremendous odds to work their own land and make a place for themselves in an often harsh and forbidding environment. Set in 1898, FLYIN’ WEST is the story of some of these African-American female pioneers who settled, together, in the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas. “Pearl Cleage’s FLYIN’ WEST…[is] a real crowd pleaser, and its characters have humor and vitality…Cleage [is] a natural-born storyteller…” —Washington Post.

For more information see: http://www.bctheatre.com/audition.html.