House Blend

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8pm
Choreography by Elizabeth Johnson, Liz Lerman, Cassie Meador, and Keith Thompson
A program of new and developing dances from the artists of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Featuring choreography by Elizabeth Johnson, Liz Lerman, Cassie Meador, and Keith Thompson.
Includes some mature content

Air Heart

In-Flight Theatre
Friday, February 5 performance is canceled.
Please contact our box office.
Women’s Theatre Showcase: Thursday, February 4
& Friday, February 5, 2010 at 8pm
Written and Performed by Mara Neimanis
Directed by Bryce Butler
Plane Sculpture by Laura Shults and Tim Scofield
Lighting Design by Heather Sorensen

In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared in the midst of the most dangerous and ambitious flight of her career. Performing on a 12-foot spinning plane sculpture, aerial actor Mara Neimanis explores the whirlwind life of America’s legendary aviatrix in an athletic performance that is deeply introspective and dazzlingly expressive.
Recommended for ages 9+

Frida Vice Versa

Marian Licha
Saturday, February 6 and Sunday, February 7
performances are canceled.
Please contact our box office.
Women’s Theatre Showcase: Saturday, February 6
at 8pm & Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 2pm
Written by Marian Licha and R. Dennis Green
Directed by Jessica Lefkow
Lighting Design by Frank Coleman

Marian Licha’s one-woman show flourishes on the conceit that the audience might be among Frida Kahlo’s students at La Esmeralda School for Painting in Mexico City in a master class exploring love, loss and redemption. Frida inspires her students to live life with passion. Her teaching unfolds as a personal story-packaged as ten “lessons.”  It reveals itself with the black humor of tragedy, accidents, opposites, and irony that ruled her memorable life. The first lesson becomes the final lesson; death can be life and vice-versa.
Recommended for ages 14+

Cream Soda and Crème de Menthe

The Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13
performances have been canceled.
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By Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Women’s Theatre Showcase: Friday, February 12
& Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 8pm
Directed by Kim Bey
Featuring Lynn Chavis

This semi-autobiographical one-woman play chronicles the life of Jacqueline Butler, a black, middle-class, doctor’s daughter growing up in Queens in summer 1962. We are introduced to Jackie’s family and the people who live on her street, such as her nemesis Persephone Wilson, and her mysterious first love, Earl Waddlington. When Jackie’s parents decide to send her to a predominantly Jewish school in Greenwich Village, her world is turned upside down, and a whole new cast of characters and relationships emerge. In fall 1962, Jackie tries to put the pieces of her identity together as she rides the E train between Queens and Manhattan, between black and white worlds, between cream soda and Creme de Menthe.
Recommended for ages 18+

I Believe/The Disorder of Things

Contradiction Dance
Friday, April 2 & Saturday, April 3 at 8pm, Sunday,
April 4, 2010 at 2pm

Contradiction Dance explores the beliefs we hold most dear and how they both unite and divide us as people.
Recommended for ages 12+

Strange Love

Familiar Songs of Bizarre Entanglements
Will Gartshore
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 8pm

Helen Hayes Award winner Will Gartshore traces the odd angles of love’s geometry with a genre-shifting collection of music. One of DC’s favorite performers, Gartshore once again brings his signature voice and unconventional attitude to the Round House stage with an hour-long cabaret ranging from the classic to the contemporary, and from old school to new wave. Sign up for a song-filled session with Dr. Will as he attempts to explain the weirdest science of them all: “romantic chemistry”.
Recommended for age 14+

Prufbox

Happenstance Theater Company, with Mark Jaster &
Sabrina Mandell
Friday, June 18 & Saturday, June 19 at 8pm, Sunday,
June 20, 2010 at 2pm

An original production loosely based on the TS Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and the shadow boxes of Joseph Cornell. It is the story of a woman who is a mermaid and man who hesitates.
Recommended for ages 12+

Maryland Community Theatre Festival

Friday, January 15 & Saturday, January 16, 2010
www.mctfa.org

What Ho, Jeeves!

Presented by Lumina Studio Theatre Winter Group
Friday, January 29 at 7pm, Saturday, January 30
at 1 & 7pm, Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 1pm
Please note that some performances are sold out.

www.luminastudio.org

Lou

Monday, February 8 reading is canceled.
Please contact our box office.
By John Carter
A reading of a play for one actress
With Kathryn Kelley as Lou Salomé
Directed by Jerry Whiddon
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:30pm

Lou Salomé broke Nietzsche’s heart and inspired his greatest work. She took the young poet Rilke under her wing and held Freud’s mind to the fire. She was a seminal writer and a brilliant psychoanalyst, but her most superb work was her life. She performed without a net and never slipped, though bodies fell all around her. Free admission.

Amazons and Their Men

Presented by Forum Theatre
By Jordan Harrison
Directed by Michael Dove & Elissa Goetschius
Saturday, February 27 – Saturday, March 20, 2010

Famous (and infamous) for glamorizing a fascist regime in her propaganda films, a young director seeks artistic vindication. In her latest film, she creates a fantasy world of drama and beauty ‑ casting herself in the role of an Amazon Queen, tormented by love for the war-hero, Achilles. But in the real world, another war is brewing. Set in Third Reich Germany and based loosely on the life of Leni Riefenstahl (director of Triumph of the Will), Amazons and Their Men chronicles the creation of Art ‑ and the collapse of a society. A DC area premiere from Forum Theatre, the company whose Helen Hayes Award nominated staging of Angels to America thrilled audiences at Round House Silver Spring in Fall 2009.

Pay-What-You-Can Previews of Amazons: Thurs., Feb 25 & Fri., Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. Tickets available at the door that evening at Round House Theatre Silver Spring. 2 per person. Cash & exact change only.

Shakespeare 2010

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come!”
Presented by Round House Theatre’s Heyday Players
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7pm

Join us for a high energy, larger than life re-envisioning of some Shakespeare’s best known plays including Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and more! Our troupe of spunky senior performers will take you on a theatrical journey you won’t soon forget! Admission is FREE.

King John

Presented by Lumina Studio Theatre Spring Ensemble
Friday, April 9 at 7pm, Saturday, April 10 at 1 & 7pm,
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 1pmwww.luminastudio.org

ArtStream’s Silver Spring Inclusive Company

Friday, April 16 at 8pm, Saturday, April 17 &
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 3pmwww.art-stream.org

The Misanthrope

The Sarah Metzger Memorial Play 2010 presented
by Round House Theatre
Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1 at 8pm,
Friday, May 7 & Saturday, May 8 at 8pm, Sunday,
May 9, 2010  at 3pm

The Sarah Metzger Memorial Play provides high school students from Montgomery County and the DC metropolitan area the resources and guidance to mount a theatrical production at Round House under the mentorship of professional theatre artists and practitioners. Watch for more info!

Comedy of Errors… At Colonus?

Presented by Lumina Studio Theatre
Friday, May 14 at 7pm, Saturday, May 15
at 1 & 7pm, Sunday, May 16 at 1pm, Friday,
May 21 at 7pm, Saturday, May 22 at 1 & 7pm,
Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 1pmwww.luminastudio.org

Hotel Casseopeia

Presented by The University of Maryland
in partnership with Round House Theatre
By Charles Mee
Directed by Blake Robison
Saturday, June 5 at 8pm, Sunday, June 6 at 3pm, Wednesday,
June 9 at 7:30pm, Thursday, June 10 & Friday, June 11 at 8pm,
Saturday, June 12 at 3 & 8pm, Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 3pm

This play’s foundations lie in the life and work of renowned artist Joseph Cornell. By looking into Cornell’s correspondence, journals, observations, and loves, it is possible to see his desire to create not only a piece of art, but to reproduce the feelings of a hidden moment. Watch for more info!