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Auditions for The Tempest will be held at the Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center beginning at 7pm on Oct 7 & 8. Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script. All ages welcome.

Performances will be January 18th at 3pm and 8pm, and January19th at 3pm.

Can’t make it to the audition? You may send the Director a video audition, to include a Shakespearean monologue. In the body of the email please include your name, age, and include any conflicts during the rehearsal period. Please email to caitlincutright00@gmail.com by October 6 at 12pm.

Sadly we had to cancel our original opening night, Friday September 13, so this hilarious musical comedy will open the following night, Saturday, September 14. The run continues with the rest of the planned schedule, which also includes Sept 15, 20, 21 & 22.

Tickets are very limited for the Sunday matinees. For tickets, click HERE

The Potomac Playmakers proudly announce auditions for the second show of the 2024-2025 Season, the Arthur Miller drama “A View From The Bridge.” The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love for, and almost an obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice’s orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice’s cousin Rodolpho.  The play addresses the tensions between community loyalty and the trials of becoming an American.

Produced with kind permission from Dramatists Play Service, “A View From The Bridge” will be directed by Cathy James.  Audition dates are scheduled for August 26 & 27, 2024 at 7PM, at the Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center, located at 17303 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown, MD.  Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.  The script includes fifteen roles, including males from 20’s to 50’s, and females from 17 to their 60’s.  Some roles may be adjusted to accommodate the cast, and performers of all races, genders, and creeds are encouraged to audition.  Audition forms can be downloaded HERE.

Show dates for “A View From The Bridge” will be November 15-17 & 22-24, 2024. Tickets are available HERE.

The Potomac Playmakers, founded in 1926, is one of the nation’s longest running active community theatre groups. For more information, contact The Potomac Playmakers at potomacplaymakers@gmail.com or call (240) 513-6260. Potomac Playmakers, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) all-volunteer, non-profit community theatre.

Starting with the musical comedy in September, “Nunsense II: the Second Coming” is hilarious. Following in October is “Rocky Horror Picture Show with LIVE Shadow Cast”, again for the Halloween season. In November, the classic drama by Arthur Miller is “A View from the Bridge”.  In January we turn to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. Our winter program, “The Cemetery Club” by Ivan Menchell is a comedy not unlike the golden girls we all love, and there will be two matinees  plus an evening per weekend for that show. The final show in June will be a rip-roaring Jones Hope Wooten comedy, “Honky Tonk Hissy Fit”, also including two matinees. For more info and tickets, click HERE.

Nunsense II: The Second Coming (musical comedy)

Book, Music & Lyrics by Dan Goggin

Performance dates September 14-15 & 20-22, 2024 (The Sept 13 show was cancelled)

SEPT 22 PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT

The Little Sisters of Hoboken, those humble nuns with a touch of show biz flair, return in style with Nunsense II: The Second Coming.  The sisters sing and dance their way across the Mount St. Helen’s stage, which is already dressed for the Hoboken Music Society’s upcoming production of The Mikado. 

Nunsense II: The Second Coming takes place six weeks after the sisters have staged their first benefit. The sisters are back presenting a “ thank-you” show for all the people who supported them in the past. But now they’re a bit slicker, having been “bitten by the theater bug”.

Direction by Janet Palmer

Musical Direction by David Loy

Cast includes: Allison Banzhoff, Caitlin Cutright, Kelli Cooper, Debra Danner, Heather Hughes, and Susan Kleit.

Tickets are $20/$15 Seniors and are available HERE

Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center, 17303 W. Washington St, Hagerstown MD

“2024 One-Act Play Festival! Featuring three original plays submitted as part of the 2023-2024 One-Act Playwriting Competition, will include the following –

• “The Indigent” by F. J. Hartland, Directed by Angel Mullen –This play tells the stories of six impoverished people, their lives, and the circumstances that lead each of them to their deaths and burials in the “pauper’s field” cemetery for the poor and unknown. Cast includes Jesse Green, Chris Leatherman, and Tiffany Martin.
• “From Birth” by Don Narkevic, Directed by Jim Zuna – In this comedy with a heart, two babies in the womb discover they are twin brother and sister, but their discoveries about each other and life go beyond the obvious as they head toward their due date. Cast includes Tannen Smith and Anna Ressler.
• “Mick and Ernie Go To Therapy” by Mike Byham, Directed by Rory Dunn – This hilarious British-style comedy tells the story of two thieves who had just completed a job in North London. Trying to hide from the police, the two thieves run into an office and are confronted by a therapist who believes the two are there for couple’s counseling. What follows is a hilarious examination of the relationship between the two thieves under the specter of arrest! Cast includes Richard Dobson, Sr., Tom Doty, and Amy Fox.

Tickets are by donation and seating is open.

Performances are Friday July 26 @ 8 PM & Saturday July 27 @ 3 PM at the Potomac Playmakers Performing Arts Center. 17303 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown MD 21740