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Almost, Maine at MAD, Mar 7 – 22

Almost, Maine at MAD, Mar 7 – 22

MAD presents the 2025 Winter Show:
Almost, Maine
by John Cariani
directed by Aly Bayens and James Pildis
produced by Jon Gardner

March 7 – 22, 2025, at the Goddard Recreation Center

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Almost, Maine is a play about love, loss, and a bit of magic in a fictional town in Maine. The play is made up of nine short stories about the residents of Almost, Maine who find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected ways.

For tickets click here.

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

2025 Greenbelt Youth Musical
Secret Circus
written and directed by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 1, 2024, 7 pm
Sunday, March 2, 2024, 3 pm
Saturday, March 8, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

As the tide of fascism rises in 1930’s Europe, a traveling circus races against time to smuggle a disabled girl named Anya to safety. With each glittering performance, the border draws nearer — and the danger grows.

Tickets: $5; advance sales (highly recommended) at (301) 397-2208, starting February 4

No Laughing Matter at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 21-Mar 9

No Laughing Matter at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 21-Mar 9

Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
No Laughing Matter
by Jeff Dunne
directed by Jeff Dunne

February 21 – March 9, 2025
Fri. & Sat. at 8pm; Sun. at 2pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

A comedian leaves his home in Russia to start anew. In his way to getting a job as a busboy in a local diner, the FBI mistake him for a spy. Ultimately it is the diner staff who find the true spy.

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

The Rude Mechanicals present The Seagull at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 23-Feb 1

The Rude Mechanicals present The Seagull at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 23-Feb 1

The Rude Mechanicals in residence at Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
This is a musical production of the Seagull featuring rock songs from the 1970s.

January 23 – February 1, 2025
Fri. & Sat. at 8pm; Sun. at 2pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The Rude Mechanicals are known for concept Shakespeare, but concept Chekhov? Well that’s not something people do. Or is it? Our next production of The Seagull transports these drama queens of the Russian theatre in the late 1800s to the American music industry of the late 1900s. 1979 to be exact. In this production we aim to explore how the revolutionary revamping of theatre that occurred during Chekhov and Stanislavski’s era bears similarities to the way the birth and rising popularity of punk rock revolutionized music in the late 1970s. Come and witness new forms in music taking shape.

Constantine is a tortured songwriter involved in founding the punk rock movement in the late 1970s. He’d love nothing more than to prove his worth to his rich and famous but cold and withholding mother, the famous diva, Arkadina. Constantine is in love with Nina, a young aspiring singer who wants to make it big. Nina is a little star struck by the wildly successful Trigorin, who is dating Arkadina. Masha, the gothiest goth who ever gothed, is in unrequited love with Constantine and soothes the pain of unreturned love with substance abuse and witty denial. Medviedenko the schoolteacher is in unrequited love with Masha. Everyone at Sorin’s estate is clearly very, very happy.

Chekhov. Where comedies end with suicide.

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

Auditions for Almost, Maine by MAD, Jan 13 & 14

Auditions for Almost, Maine by MAD, Jan 13 & 14

MAD announces auditions for the 2025 Winter Show:
Almost, Maine
by John Cariani
directed by Aly Bayens and James Pildis
produced by Jon Gardner

Audition dates: January 13 & 14, 2025 at 7pm

Audition Location: AUDITIONS WILL BE MONDAY, JANUARY 13 AT 7 PM IN THE BUILDING 3 AUDITORIUM (PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE A NASA BADGE MUST EMAIL BADGES@MADTHEATER.ORG NO LATER THAN NOON ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, TO REQUEST A 1-DAY BADGE) & TUESDAY, JANUARY 14 AT 7 PM IN THE GODDARD VISITOR CENTER, 9432 GREENBELT ROAD (NO BADGE NEEDED). CALL BACKS WILL BE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 IF NEEDED.

Performance Dates: March 7 – 22, 2025 at the Goddard Recreation Center.

Theatre: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Almost, Maine is a play about love, loss, and a bit of magic in a fictional town in Maine. The play is made up of nine short stories about the residents of Almost, Maine who find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected ways.

For more information and to fill in the form, click here.