Company Name
Maryland Ensemble Theatre
Company Website
https://marylandensemble.org/
Ticketing Link
https://marylandensemble.secure.force.com/ticket/#details_a0S2J000007lpm...
2019-2020 Season List
SWEAT
BY LYNN NOTTAGE
DIRECTED BY GENÉ FOUCHÉ
SEPTEMBER 6 – SEPTEMBER 29
In the struggling Rust Belt city of Reading, Pennsylvania, a bar becomes a battleground for race, class, family and friendship. Cynthia, Tracey, and Jessie are a group of friends with a shared history working together on the factory line. But as economic upheaval and picket lines begin to strike their lives, they find themselves pitted against each other in a desperate fight to protect their livelihood and stay afloat. For mature audiences only.
Individual tickets on sale August 1.
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
BY ANNIE BAKER
DIRECTED BY RAY HATCH
OCTOBER 18 – NOVEMBER 10
A collection of quirky Vermont locals enroll in Marty’s “Adult Creative Drama” class; including James, Marty’s apprehensive husband; Theresa, a darling former actress from New York; Lauren, an awkward high school junior and Schultz, a vulnerable and recently divorced carpenter. These once-strangers begin to know each other far more intimately than expected as they traverse along Marty’s seemingly silly theater games and exercises. The group finds itself thrust into real-life love triangles, family troubles, confessions and unexpected transformations.
THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (abridged)
BY REED MARTIN AND AUSTIN TICHENOR
DIRECTED BY LYNN SHARP SPEARS
DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 29
‘Tis the season for the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church! But what’s this? None of the acts scheduled have arrived?!? Don’t cancel Christmas just yet. Three brave church members are pressed into service to perform the entire show by themselves. Festive, funny, and physical, this delightfully twisted and unhinged trip through our favorite holiday traditions will ensure an experience like no other. Packed with more than enough laughs to stuff a stocking!
ADMISSIONS
BY JOSHUA HARMAN
DIRECTED BY PETER WRAY
FEBRUARY 7 – MARCH 8
From the writer of Bad Jews comes Admissions, a biting and hilarious look at privilege and power in higher education. Bill and Sherri are publicly progressive in their high-level positions at a New Hampshire boarding school, but those values are challenged when their son’s dream of going to an Ivy League school is jeopardized. For mature audiences only.
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY TAD JANES
APRIL 3 – APRIL 26
Winner of Tony and Pulitzer prizes, The Great Work comes to Frederick! Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches is set in 1985 New York City. Prior and Louis are a young gay couple devastated by the news that Prior has AIDS. Meanwhile, Mormon lawyer Joe is offered a promotion by his boss, the infamous Roy Cohn, all the while keeping a secret from his wife, Harper. Prepare for the hilarious, the tragic, and the supernatural. For mature audiences only.
THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
BY MATTHEW LOPEZ
DIRECTED BY JULIE HERBER
MAY 22 – JUNE 14
Casey is barely making ends meet as an Elvis impersonator at a Florida bar when management fires him and replaces him with a drag show. With rent (and a baby!) due, he must let go of “The King” and find his inner “Queen”. The Legend of Georgia McBride is a comedy filled with one-liners, touching family moments, and killer dance moves. For mature audiences only.
