Current Productions

Here is a summary of our current productions. We know that you will enjoy the remodeled Bowie Playhouse.

Bowie Community Theatre's 2010-2011 Season has "something for everyone"!

Special Summer Presentation: Same Time, Next Year

First, we have been given a summer slot for a show and we have selected a comedy, Same Time, Next Year, written in 1975 by Bernard Slade. This play is directed by Linda Kirby and will be performed July 30 - August 14, 2010. The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years. New Jersey accountant, George and Oakland, California housewife, Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951. They have an affair, then agree to meet once a year, despite the fact both are married to others and have six children between them. Over the course of the next 24 years, they develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect to find between two people meeting for a clandestine relationship just once a year. During the time they spend with each other, they discuss the births, deaths, and marital problems each is experiencing at home, while they adapt themselves to the social changes affecting their lives.

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Who Dunit?

We begin our season with the murder mystery, Who Dunit? by C.B. Gilford. It first ran as a short story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and was later a hit on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". What happens when a famous mystery writer is murdered, goes to Heaven and discovers that not even Saint Michael knows who murdered him? There's only one answer: Saint Michael sends him back to earth to relive the past twenty-four hours of his life in order to solve the murder before it is committed. The writer realizes that everybody he knows has a good reason to kill him! And then - is he just going to sit there and let it happen a second time? So the writer must outwit both the murderer and the Archangel Michael. September 17 - October 2, 2010.

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Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives follows with performances January 21 - February 5 2011. This is an outrageous "black comedy about white trash", says playwright, Del Shores. Winner! 14 Drama League awards including Best Production. The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. The ensemble cast of Sordid Lives puts a comedic twist on a story of unconditional love, acceptance and "coming out" in a Texas family, as they all converge for the matriarch's funeral. The eccentric characters include: a mother who is wound too tight and in denial over her gay son, a barfly/singer at the local watering hole, a cheating heart whose wooden legs accidentally aid in the death of his mistress, Peggy, a good Christian woman (and the family matriarch), in a motel room, and a dozen others too unbelievable to mention. Chaos erupts in Winters, Texas, when the cheating heart's wife tries her hand at revenge therapy inspired by "Thelma & Louise" along with her best friend. Their lives intertwine, giving each a new perspective, honesty and meaning. FOR ADULTS ONLY! Mature subject matter and language.

The Cocktail Hour

We close our season with the drama, The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney. A young playwright returns home to get permission from his mother and father to produce a play he has written about them. His well-to-do (and rather stuffy) parents are horrified at the idea of their private life being exposed on stage, while his sister is furious that she is only a secondary figure in the play. The cocktail hour soon turns into a shouting match, and, as more drinks are poured, family skeletons come out of the closet. This gripping play, dealing with the age-old conflict between children and parents over morals and values, performs April 1-16, 2011.

All performances will be held at the Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, Bowie, Maryland (White Marsh Recreation Park). Performances are on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 PM and Sunday matinees at 2 PM.

Reservations are recommended by calling BCT's Hot Line at (301) 805-0219 or on-line at http://www.BCTheatre.com .

Other Theatre Groups

2nd Star Productions

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