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Click here to read Theatre Blooms Five Star review of Kong's Night Out This is the story of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann (played in the 1933 movie by Fay Wray) was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong. There's always a backstory. Myron Siegel is a low-end Broadway producer who desperately wants to be high end. Trouble is, he has, for his entire career, been sabotaged by his arch rival, who is ultra-famous for mak

Everyone loves comic book superheroes, so both cast and audience will love this action-packed spoof of the comic book genre complete with hysterical singing superheroes and dancing villains.  Stanley Leonardo Sappovitz wants nothing more than to become a comic book artist and create heroes and villains for the comic books he loves so much.  As the janitor at Wonder Comics, he anxiously awaits the day that his boss, D.C.  Wunderman, will see his drawings and give him the chanc

Photos by Manny Mendez Click here to read DC Theater Arts Review of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner A progressive white couple's proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fiance home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Blindsided by their daughter's whirlwind romance and fearful for her future, Matt and Christina Drayton quickly come to realize the difference between

Photos by Manny Mendez Click here for DC Theater Arts review of Rope For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the “fun of the thing,” Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth’s father, to a party, the chest with its grue

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve. This was a one night benefit performance for the Emmanuel Food Distribution. We were able to raise over $1300 to help them feed people in Beltsville and the surrounding communities.

Click here to read DC Theater Arts Review of The Mousetrap The world's longest-running play! After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architec

Music and Lyrics by Bill Francoeur All our old friends, plus a few new ones, are here in this classic, marvelous musical adaptation.  We’ll meet the captivating Princess Snow White, the prince, the evil queen, and, of course, the seven mischievous dwarfs — Sarge, Gabby, Gloomy Gus, Ticklish, Spritely, Snore, and Slowpoke.  There’s also a hilarious palace cat and an enchanted vixen — a fox, you could say!  Following the traditional storyline, the fairy tale is brought to life

Much Ado About Nothing  is a lively romantic comedy centered on two couples in the Italian town of Messina. Claudio and Hero fall quickly in love and plan to marry, but their happiness is jeopardized when the scheming Don John plots to ruin their relationship. Meanwhile, the sharp-tongued Beatrice and Benedick engage in witty banter, each insisting they’ll never fall in love—until their friends trick them into believing the other is secretly smitten. After misunderstandings,

Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha drea

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids – probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide head-on with the story of Christmas! This delightful show is adapted from the bestselling Young Adult book, and has become a holiday staple for groups across the United States. The crowd-pleasing comedy features plenty of

Click here to read DC Theater Arts Review of The 39 Steps In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasur

Click here to read DC Theater Arts Review of A View From The Bridge When two of his wife’s Italian cousins—submarines they are, in the waterfront argot—are smuggled into this country, he makes room for them in his home. Gratefully they move in among his wife, his children and the teen-age niece whom he has brought up and whom he has come to love, he thinks, as a daughter. And now the stage is set for tragedy. One of the illegal immigrants has a family in Italy for whom he is

Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police –

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate… for each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins; one by one, they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme about “Ten Little Soldier Boys.”

Our first family show. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  follows young Dorothy Gale, who is swept away from her Kansas home by a powerful cyclone and transported to the magical Land of Oz. To find her way back home, she must travel to the Emerald City and ask the mysterious Wizard for help. Along the way, she befriends a Scarecrow seeking a brain, a Tin Woodman hoping for a heart, and a Cowardly Lion searching for courage. Together, they face witches, wonders, and unexpected challe

One and Dunne was supposed to be our second show of the 2022 Season. A collection of 10 short 10 minute comedies by local playwright Jeff Dunne ( www.bearcreations.org ) but due to unforeseen circumstances we had to cancel the show. We did have a blast rehearsing it though!

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing to

It's Alive! We came back after the pandemic in the fall of 2021 with Frankenstein! This smart and well-crafted adaptation remains very true to Mary Shelley’s classic novel.  Captain Walton is on an Arctic expedition when he finds and rescues Victor Frankenstein from the harsh terrain.  Frankenstein had been pursuing the Creature he created and brought to life.  Having told the captain his travails before dying, it is now up to Walton to narrate the tale of the monster’s creat

Thanks for the Memories: A Tribute to The Carol Burnett Show  was an evening of classic sketches originally performed by Carol Burnett and her company on the beloved television show. It was a wonderful way to kick off 2020 and was intended to launch our first full season. Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic put those plans on hold. Still, we remain proud of this production—it marked the first time our stage was open for a full show. The photos below were taken during rehearsals

In 2019, we were just getting our feet wet, so to speak. To raise some initial seed money, we presented a staged reading of Dracula and Mina… A Love Story , an original script written by one of our board members, John Cusumano. Most of the photos you see here were taken during rehearsals or pulled from a short video recorded at the time.