Greenbelt Arts Center
http://www.greenbeltartscenter.org/, 123 Centerway, Greenbelt MD 20770, 301-441-8770.
The Greenbelt Arts Center, known as GAC, is a community theater in Greenbelt that produces 4 to 6 shows per year and hosts an additional 6 guest shows per year. They also have a few musical concerts. Tickets can be purchased through their website.
Upcoming Events:
Cancelled: Mike Funt presents Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 20-29
CANCELLED
Mike Funt presents
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment
March 20 – 29, 2020
Location: Greenbelt Arts Center
International clown performer, teaching artist, and director Mike Funt is happy to announce open auditions for The Clown School East’s premier production. Shipwrecked! tells the grand tale of a famous adventurer who gets lost on the high seas and ends up seeing fantastic things and meeting exotic people. The audience is whisked away from England to the exotic lands of Aboriginal Australia and back again in a story populated by exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. He is aided by two highly talented players, who play all of the people (and animals) he meets along the way. However, all might not be as it seems…Shipwrecked! brings the joy of storytelling alive, and questions whether a story being real or fabricated makes the journey any less treasured.
Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.
Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Mike Funt, Shipwrecked
The Children’s Hour at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 17-May 2
The Children’s Hour
By Lillian Hellman
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell
April 17 – May 2, 2020
Location: Greenbelt Arts Center
The play, which premiered in 1934, was a professional success for the playwright, Lillian Hellman. Set in a private school for girls, the play explores how lying, bullying, and the insidious effect of slanderous innuendo can upend plans and lives.
Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.
Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman, Pauline Griller-Mitchell
Arcadia at the Greenbelt Arts Center, May 15-31
Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Randy Barth
May 15 – 31, 2020
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.
Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Arcadia, Randy Barth, Tom Stoppard
Rude Mechanicals present Romeo and Juliet at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jun 19-27
The Rude Mechanicals present:
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Claudia Bach
June 19 – 27, 2020
Location: Greenbelt Arts Center
The Rude Mechanicals present Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, a tale of high-stakes, forbidden love in the era of Don’t-Ask-Don’t Tell. Two young women attempt to navigate their culture, their family’s expectations, prejudices, and their own feelings to tragic and disastrous results.
Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.
Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, The Rude Mechanicals, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
