BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

Pulitzer Prize Winner Paula Vogel delicately depicts a troubled family’s snowy Christmas Eve road trip in this theatrical homage to Thorton Wilder’s The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden. Both delightful and despairing The Long Christmas Ride Home unearths the lifelong effects of trauma and sexual alienation through the use of Bunraku-inspired puppetry.

Running: March 18 - April 17; Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $10-20
FREE BEER AND WINE WITH VALID ID
Web: www.singlecarrot.com
Phone: 443-844-9253
Email: boxoffice@singlecarrot.com

Friends and Neighbors Festival auditions—Sunday, April 10, noon- 3 pm at Strand Theater Company, 1823 N. Charles Street. Please prepare a one minute monologue (comedic or dramatic) and be prepared to read sides. Auditions will take place on a drop in basis, although scheduling a time slot is encouraged.

If you have any questions about the festival and to schedule a time slot, please email Jayme Kilburn: jkilburn@strandtheatercompany.org.

The Strand has selected 7 new plays for inclusion in the 2011 Friends and Neighbors Festival running June 1 – 19, 2011. The festival will take place Wednesday – Sunday featuring a different play each day of the week. Each week’s plays will alternate, allowing plays featured on a weeknight the first week, a weekend production the second week, and so on. Each director is limited to a rehearsal period of 20 hours and a budget of $20. Directors are only allowed to use stage blocks to create their set and actors must only wear black for their costumes. Rehearsals will take place after May 7-27, 2011.

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GERMANTOWN, MARYLAND

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Jovita Sheppard Album Release/Listening Party—Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. at New Life Cathedral, 110 Junius Street, Brooklyn, New York 11212.

 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Ndelible Mammoth Mixtape Live Concert w/ Terrance Cunningham, Ari Lennox and Leah Smith—Saturday, April 9, 7-11 p.m. at The Arc, 1901 Mississippi Avenue Southeast Washington, DC 20020. Costs $10, $15 at door.

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