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Port Tobacco Players' ENCORE KIDS present The Granny Awards

Tantallon Community Players present MAME

Port Tobacco Players' Charles County Youth Orchestra and Encore Strings in Concert

Tantallon Community Players present MAME

CCAA General Membership Meeting

River Artsfest Kickoff Event: River Artsfest Circle of Song with

Tom Wisner & Friends

Tantallon Community Players present MAME

River Artsfest 2007

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Tantallon Community Players present MAME

Celebrations presents the 6th Annual Juneteenth Festival

Juneteenth 2007 Youth Stage Freestyle Movement presents Fight 4 Your Right to Live

More Juneteenth Celebrating: Doo Wop Concert

The Pajama Game

Auditions for Devour the Snow

The Black Box Theatre, in the Indian Head Center for the Arts Presents William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" As Read by Lean & Hungry Theatre, Washington, DC

Directed by Akiva Fox, of the Shakespeare Theatre

On Saturday, June 9 at 7 PM, and for one night only, the Black Box Theatre hosts a staged reading of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" - part of the Charles County Board of Education's recommended high school English reading curriculum.

For reservations, please phone 301-292-7538.

Read directly from the script, this performance features the acting talents of Lean & Hungry Theatre, whose members have performed or taught with:

The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Heritage Theatre Company, The Maryland Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre and The Washington Shakespeare Company.

First come first served. No assigned seating. Open seating only.

For reservations and ticket prices, please phone 301-292-7538.

What is Juneteenth? It's a celebration of the day the last slaves in America were set free. Two and a half years passed between the Emancipation Proclamation and the day the slaves in Texas learned of their freedom. Today, Juneteenth celebrates African American freedom while focusing on self-development and encouraging respect for all cultures. Celebrations invites you to join the festivities!

EVENT: DOO WOP CONCERT

DATE: Saturday June 16, 2006

TIME: 6:30 PM

OVERVIEW: Everyone is invited to experience a roaring oldies Saturday Night Bash with:

THE JEWELS

THE LEGENDARY ORIOLES

Pookie Hudson's SPANIELS

ADMISSION: $10 in ADVANCE $12 at the Door

LOCATION: Westlake High School is in Waldorf, Maryland (Charles County). Westlake HS is at 3300 Middletown Road just one mile west of the St. Charles Towne Center Mall.

INFORMATION: For tickets call the BLCE at 301-632-6632 or e-mail us at celebrations@blce.org.

CELEBRATIONS of Ethnic Cultures is sponsored by the Black Leadership Council with support from National Endowment for the Arts and Maryland Traditions.

Port Tobacco Players

The Pajama Game (June 29 - July 15,2007)
Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell
Music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
From the novel 7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell

This hysterical romantic comedy from the creators of "Damn Yankees" brims with songs and dances. Conditions at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful as sparks fly between new superintendent Sid Sorokin and Babe Williams, leader of the union grievance committee. Their stormy relationship comes to a head when the workers strike for a 7 and 1/2-cent pay increase, setting off not only a conflict between management and labor, but a battle of the sexes as well. A solid, classic musical comedy.

Performances:

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm

Sundays at 3:00 pm

Tickets:

Adults: $15

Seniors (60+) and Youth (thru high school): $12

Call 301-932-6819 for reservations!

Hard Bargain Players: AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED

June 30^th @ 10am

July 1^st @ 2pm

July 2^nd @ 6pm

DEVOUR THE SNOW by Abe Polsy, directed by Brian Donohue (How I Learned to Drive, When the World Was Green, Alligators all at HBP and The Elephant Man at PTP) Devour the Snow will be performed October 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. If possible please bring your headshot and resume. For more information contact HBP at 301-392-9901 or e-mail Suzanne_Donohue@hbplayers.org. If you are interested in auditioning, but are unable to attend the auditions, please contact us for an audition appointment. Also if you are interested in helping out in a technical capacity please contact us!

Auditions will be at the theatre - 2001 Bryan Point Road, Accokeek, MD 20607

Cast: 7 men, 2 women, 1 girl

A riveting courtroom drama drawn from the harrowing saga of the ill-fated Donner Party, some of whose members perished (and were cannibalized by the others) while snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Presented to great critical and popular acclaim by New York's noted Hudson Guild Theatre. "...a powerful piece of theater." -NY Post. "Polsky has written powerful dramatic scenes of confrontation..." -The Hollywood Reporter "...an undeniable dramatic fascination." -NY Times.

THE STORY: The action takes place at Sutter's Fort, in northern California, in 1847. Lewis Keseberg, a German emigrant and survivor of the tragic Donner Party expedition, has brought a suit for slander against several other survivors, who have accused him of being a grave robber and murderer. As the trial testimony proceeds the awful facts of the expedition's demise are revealed-the heavy snows which trapped them in the mountains; the starvation and death of women and children; the desperation which drove the few survivors to cannibalize the corpses of the dead. Keseberg does not deny the horror of what occurred, or the madness which made him a party to it, but he cannot live with the accusation that he deliberately killed for food and that he robbed the graves of the deceased. Ultimately he wins his case, but not before it is made eloquently clear that all involved will be burdened until the end of their lives with the terrible, numbing anguish of what they went through.