You Can’t Take It With You at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 21 – Apr 15

You Can’t Take It With You at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 21 – Apr 15

You Can’t Take it With You
by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Directed by Patrick Pase
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday, March 21, through Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Performances run weekends from Friday, March 21, through Tuesday, April 15, 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.

Description: The Sycamores may seem mad, but if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. See the hilarious mayhem when Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening, the shock sustained by the Kirbys shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. Will love win out in the end? Find out in this delightful comedy.

The Creation of the World and Other Business at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21 – Apr 5

The Creation of the World and Other Business at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21 – Apr 5

The Creation of the World and Other Business
by Arthur Miller

March 21 – April 5, 2014

A guest production from Off The Quill.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Friday March 21st at 8:00 pm
Saturday March 22nd at 8:00 pm
Sunday March 23rd at 2:00 pm
Friday March 28th at 8:00 pm
Saturday March 29th at 8:00 pm
Sunday March 30th at 2:00 pm
Friday April 4th at 8:00 pm
Saturday April 5th at 8:00 pm

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Description: Arthur Miller’s intense and often comedic modern re-telling of the Book of Genesis. With dance, music, and physicality, Off the Quill presents the debates between God and Lucifer regarding human nature (and the nature of God) through the creation of the First Couple, their expulsion from Eden, and the murder of Abel.

Daughter of the Struggle at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 21

Daughter of the Struggle at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 21

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Friday, March 21 at 8:00pm

Free Soul Productions presents Daughter of the Struggle

An inspiring and unforgettable one woman show brought to you by Free Soul Productions starring Ayanna Gregory with special guest, comedian, civil & human rights activist, Dick Gregory followed by Q&A with the audience.

With powerful stories and transformative songs, this play is an intimate journey into the life of the legendary Dick Gregory and the family that loves him. This autobiographical performance reveals Ayanna’s multidimensional existence as a daughter of the Civil Rights Movement.

Tickets: $25 Adults, $15 Students.

Radium Girls at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 14-16

Radium Girls at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 14-16

Radium Girls
by D. W. Gregory

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

Bishop McNamara High School Fine Arts Department Theatre Program is excited to announce our spring play, RADIUM GIRLS.

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, RADIUM GIRLS traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees.

Written by local playwright D.W. Gregory, performance dates are Friday, March 14 and 15 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $10 each. Please join us for another outstanding production!

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Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Charles H. Flowers High School, Mar 14-29

Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Charles H. Flowers High School, Mar 14-29

The Charles Herbert Flowers High School Jaguar Players present
Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical

Produced and Directed by Shanelle D. Ingram

Location: Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale.

Fridays and Saturdays, March 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 at 7:00pm.

All performances will be held in the Helena Nobles-Jones Auditorium at CHFHS.

Tickets are $10. For information phone: (301) 636-8000/extension 272.

Description: Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), “Ain’t Misbehavin'”. The musical is a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and ’30s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song “Ain’t Misbehavin'”. It was a time when Manhattan nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller’s view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.