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Auditions for The Patchwork Girl of Oz at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-15

Auditions for The Patchwork Girl of Oz at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 6-15

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
based on the 7th book in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series
directed by Eliot Malumuth

Auditions: March 6 – 15, 2023
March 6, 9, 14, and 15 with callbacks by invitation if needed on March 20.
All will begin at 7 PM.

Performances: June 16 – July 8, 2023

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The Patchwork Girl of Oz is a musical adventure story set in the marvelous land of Oz. While trying to create a servant for himself, Dr. Pipt sprinkles his “Powder of Life” on a patchwork quilt doll and voila!

Scraps – a bubbly and brassy young girl with no intention of being his slave – comes to life.

Scraps and her Munchkin friend, Ojo the Unlucky, set off to collect the ingredients needed to revive Ojo’s uncle who has been accidentally turned into a statue. It’s a journey of understanding – of self, of the wonders of Oz, and of the world around us.

For more information including audition sides and parts to be cast, see: https://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/auditions/

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

2023 Greenbelt Youth Musical
The Joy Gods Return
by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 4, 7 pm
Sunday, March 5, 3 pm
Saturday, March 11, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

A year after 9/11, actress Felicity Knox makes a surprise appearance as Iris, the messenger goddess of joy, on the Channel Four morning news. The stunt is meant to publicize the Broadway premiere of her late husband’s retro-musical, The Joy Gods Return, but it blossoms into a campaign of joy that lifts the spirits of the entire city. New York falls in love with Iris, and so does jaded newscaster Brian Banning, whose quest for an exposé
nearly wrecks everything. The Joy Gods Return celebrates the resurgence of joy after isolation and grief. It’s about the return of laughter, music, color, glamour, life – and love. After the hiatus of the pandemic, it’s exactly the show we need.

Tickets: $5; advance sales at (301) 397-2208

Arcadia at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 3-18

Arcadia at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 3-18

The Greenbelt Arts Center Presents:
Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Randy Barth

March 3 – 18, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM
The performance on Saturday, March 18 will be a 2PM MATINEE

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia has won awards and accolades ever since its first appearance in 1993. It is set in an English country house, and takes place in both early 1800s and the present day in 2000. There scholars debate the relationships between past and present, order and disorder, and certainty and uncertainty. The (often inaccurate) sleuthing of the modern researchers is contrasted with those who lived there before and provide both comedy and drama. And indeed, there are scandals, both academic and personal, that keeps the plot shifting. It presents a rich combination of farcical elements, clever wordplay, and omens of a dark future.

Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

The Belle’s Strategem at Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 3-11

The Belle’s Strategem at Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 3-11

The Rude Mechanicals in Residence at the Greenbelt Arts Center present:
The Belle’s Strategem
by Hannah Cowley
directed by Jeff Poretsky

February 3 – 11, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

By Greenbelt Arts Center.

See! A charming rogue hoist on his own petard!
Cheer! As the confusion sowed plays out in surprising ways!
Watch! A young lady plot…and win!

The Belle’s Stratagem, reimagined into the 1960s, is a hilarious tale of
manners. Where love does – eventually – conquer all. Follow a couple promised to each other in their youth, and a couple from different social circles recently married. Over the course of two days let’s see what trouble they can get into…and out of.

Tickets: $24 General Admission; $22 Senior/Military; $12 Child/Student.
Masks required. Tickets available here.

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Auditions for The Mountaintop at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 15 & 16

Auditions for The Mountaintop at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 15 & 16

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Mountaintop
by Katori Hall
directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell

Auditions: January 15 & 16, 2023

Performances: April 14 – 29, 2023

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Director Rikki Howie seeks two actors for this production of Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop”, a gripping re-imagination of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.

For more information including audition sides and parts to be cast, see: https://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/auditions//a>