The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-12

The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-12

The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
September 11 & 12, 2014
Series: 2014 NextNOW Fest

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 . 7:30PM
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 . 9:00PM

Tickets: Free, no tickets required. Dance Theatre, Reserved Seating.

Description: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is an artistic attempt to perform 30 two-minute plays, selected at random in front of the audience’s eyes.

With an aesthetic that draws upon Dada, Surrealism and the work of the original Italian Futurists, the single unifying element of the short plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty.

This experimental theatre company’s co-artistic director, Kurt Chiang, is a graduate of UMD’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. But would you expect anything less?

Auditions for A Shot in the Dark by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Sep 8 & 9

Auditions for A Shot in the Dark by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Sep 8 & 9

A Shot in the Dark Auditions

Auditions on September 8 & 9 for A Shot in the Dark
Adapted by Harry Kurnitz; From L’Idiote by Marcel Achard
Directed by Keith Brown

A PGLT Production: January 9 to 24, 2015 at the Bowie Playhouse

Location: Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

A good hearted, guileless child of nature is hauled before the magistrate on a charge of murder, having been found unconscious, nude, and clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her. What is most shocking to the magistrate is the complete frankness with which she describes her life as a parlor maid and her affairs with both the dead chauffeur and her aristocratic employer. She is so ingenious that the magistrate, at the risk of his juridical neck, decides that she could not have committed the murder. “A bubbling, saucy comedy… A light, tasty soufflé” ~ N.Y. Times.

Auditions on Monday, September 8, Tuesday, September 9 at Bowie Playhouse (our performance space) in Bowie MD from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Location: White Marsh Park on Rt. 3 in Bowie, MD – 16500 White Marsh Park, Bowie, MD 20715. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

Call backs will be Monday, September 15 at the New Carrollton Municipal Building (our rehearsal space) from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Address: 6016 Princess Garden Parkway, New Carrollton, MD 20784 (directions)

Questions? Contact Keith Brown, the director, at kdbrown55g@gmail.com or 301-982-4405 and leave a message.

Additional information: http://www.pglt.org/auditions.html

Beech Tree Puppets presents The Giant Turnip at the Greenbelt Community Center, Sep 7, 1pm

Beech Tree Puppets presents The Giant Turnip at the Greenbelt Community Center, Sep 7, 1pm

Artful Afternoon Sunday, September 7, 1-4pm
Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Rd.

Beech Tree Puppets presents a new show The Giant Turnip, based on a Ukrainian folktale.

An all-ages garden-themed craft workshop with The Butterfly Brigade of CHEARS, 1-3pm.

Studio open house and sale, 1-4pm, with the Community Center’s Artists in Residence.

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium

Performance and craft workshop are free.

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 5-28

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 5-28

Friday September 5, 2014 through Sunday September 28, 2014
The Mousetrap
by Agatha Christie
Directed by Carl Randolph
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Description: A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions in their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef, a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner arrives, when the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the rationale of the murderer’s pattern, the policeman probes the background of everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. Performances run weekends from Friday September 5, 2014 through Sunday September 28, 2014 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 $12. For reservations, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2. For further information visit the web site at http://www.laurelmillplayhouse.org or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Bug at the Hard Bargain Theater, Sep 5-20

Bug at the Hard Bargain Theater, Sep 5-20

Location: Hard Bargain Players

Bug

Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Michael J. Margelos

Performances
September 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 and 20 at 8:00 PM

Parental Advisory: Adult Themes

Synopsis: Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter introduced to her by her lesbian friend, R.C. Agnes stays at a hotel in hopes of avoiding her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who was just released from prison. At first, she lets Peter sleep platonically on her floor, but not long after she promotes him to the bed. Matters become more complicated as Jerry eagerly returns to the woman he loves to beat her up, expecting to resume their relationship. On top of that, there’s a hidden bug infestation problem that has both Agnes and Peter dealing with scathing welts and festering sores-which has Peter believing this is the result of experiments conducted on him during his stay at an army hospital. Their fears soon escalate to paranoia, conspiracy theories and twisted psychological motives.