Hay Fever
By Noel Coward

September 7th - 23rd, 2007
NOTE: No performance on September 14th
Performances at Asbury Methodist Village Rosborough Center. For reservations, call 301-977-5751.

Regarded by many as Noel Coward's funniest play, it concerns the ultra-Bohemian Bliss family. Mother Judith is a retired dramatic actress; father David, a successful but temperamental writer; and their adult son and daughter, who are handsome and ill-mannered. One weekend, each has invited a guest to their country home without the knowledge of the other family members. What ensues is a wild romp as each person is attracted to someone different from the original pairings. Light, luminous, charming and hilarious.

Dracula: The Musical?
By Rick Abbot

October 12th - October 28th, 2007
In partnership with the City of Gaithersburg. Performances at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. For reservations, call 301-258-6394.

What could be more timely for Halloween than the classic tale of Count Dracula? Except that this version takes Bram Stoker's original horror story and turns it into a rollicking and delightful spoof with a melodic score. You may not be frightened by the dancing and singing vampires, but you will certainly be startled by all the special effects.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson

December 7th - 9th, 2007
Performances at Asbury Methodist Village Rosborough Center. For reservations, call 301-977-5751.

Join us for the Third Annual benefit production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Playing for one weekend only. In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

NOTE: This production is not part of our regular season, discounts and season subscriptions cannot be honored.

The Boys Next Door
By Tom Griffin

January 18th - February 3rd, 2008
In partnership with the City of Gaithersburg. Performances at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. For reservations, call 301-258-6394.

The setting is a communal residence in New England where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest but increasingly burned out young social worker. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy. With touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time which they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.

Six Degrees of Separation
By John Guare

February 29th - March 16th, 2008
Performances at Asbury Methodist Village Rosborough Center. For reservations, call 301-977-5751.

The title refers to a statistical theory which states that any two people in the world can be connected through only six other people. The play is an examination of the threads of chance that link one person to another. Inspired by a true story, it follows the trail of a young black con man who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple by claiming he knows their son at college. By telling them he is the son of actor Sidney Poitier and that he has just lost all his money in a mugging, he is invited to stay overnight in their home. The fast-paced plot is cunningly executed, alternating comic situations with mildly disturbing ones. It is a play about everything with something in it for everyone.

The Wizard of Oz
Book by L. Frank Baum
Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Co.
Based upton the Classic Motion Picture

April 11th - May 4th, 2008
Performances at Asbury Methodist Village Rosborough Center. For reservations, call 301-977-5751.

Little Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, dreams of what lies over the rainbow. One day a twister hits her farm and carries her away over the rainbow to another world. Come join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as they travel the universe of Dorothy's imagination. Classic musical numbers include Over the Rainbow, Ding Dong! the Witch is Dead, If I Only Had a Brain/a Heart/the Nerve, We're Off to See the Wizard and more. Put a smile on everyone's face with THE WIZARD OF OZ!

Agnes of God
By John Pielmeier

May 16th - June 1st, 2008
In partnership with the City of Gaithersburg. Performances at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. For reservations, call 301-258-6394.

A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Martha Livingstone, is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. The Mother Superior, Miriam Ruth, seems bent on protecting young Sister Agnes from the doctor which immediately arouses the doctor's suspicions (Who killed the baby? Who fathered the child?). Dr. Livingstone forces all three women, herself included, to face some harsh realities in their own lives, and to re-examine the meaning of faith and the commitment of love.

One Act Festival - 2008

July/August 2008
The Seventh Annual One Act Festival is a Special Production in partnership with the City of Gaithersburg. Performances at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. For reservations, call 301-258-6394.

NOTE: This production is not part of our regular season, discounts and season subscriptions cannot be honored.