Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 21 – Mar 9

Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Feb 21 – Mar 9

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Directed by Stephen Deininger
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Fridays and Saturdays, Feb 21, 22, 28, March 7, 8 at 8:00pm
There will be no performance on Saturday March 1.
Sunday matinees on March 2 and March 9, both at 2:00 PM.

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso’ agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. Performances run weekends from Friday February 21, 2014 through Sunday March 9, 2014 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission. Admission for students (18 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.

WonderWorks presents Are You a Wild Thing? at Bowie State University, Feb 21, 10am

WonderWorks presents Are You a Wild Thing? at Bowie State University, Feb 21, 10am

Description: WonderWorks is a new professional theater company at Bowie State University that produces shows for young audiences. The company will present Theater for the Very Young: “Are You a Wild Thing?” a production suitable for very young audiences ages 2-4. There will be stories, songs and movements for children, toddler through pre-school to enjoy together with adults.

Location: Main Stage Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University.

Contact: Bob Bartlett
bbartlett@bowiestate.edu
301-860-3769

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

by Lisa Loomer

February 14-22, 2014

Director Kris Messer

Presented By:
University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kogood Theatre. General Admission.

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UMD Faculty & Staff: $20
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, Feb 14, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 15, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 16, 2014 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 19, 2014 . 7:30PM
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 . 7:30PM
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 7:30PM

Description:

Lisa Loomer’s 1994 play is a dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty — and its cost. Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor’s waiting room.

Forgiveness From Heaven is an 18th-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. Victoria is a 19th-century English woman suffering from what is commonly known as “hysteria.” Then there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts.

Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination in this wild ride through medical and sexual politics.

The playwright — who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl, Interrupted — often deals with the experiences of Latinos and Hispanic Americans and with various aspects of contemporary family life. For her work on The Waiting Room, she won the 1994 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and the 1995 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award.

Maryland Opera Studio presents New Works at Clarice Smith, Feb 14

Maryland Opera Studio presents New Works at Clarice Smith, Feb 14

Friday, February 14, 2014, 7:30pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Gildenhorn Recital Hall.

Free admission, no tickets required.

Description: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the allure and passion of opera. On this concert, first-year Maryland Opera Studio students perform a partially-staged – but fully dramatic – new work for opera. In Love/Hate by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis, a couple at a bus stop lives through all the reasons they have for never meeting. Music makes strange bedfellows as two diametrically opposed Supreme Court Justices express their opinions through song in Scalia/Ginsburg.

Ten-Minute Play Festival at Bowie State University, Feb 13-14

Ten-Minute Play Festival at Bowie State University, Feb 13-14

First Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival

February 13, 2014 – February 14, 2014 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Description: The theatre program invites you to the First Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival where original, student-written plays will be presented in 10-minute time slots.

Location: Black Box Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University.

Cost: $3 for children; $5 for BSU faculty, staff, students and senior citizens; $10 general admission

Box office opens 1 hour before performances. Call 301-860-3717 for ticket information.