Theatre Performances
All Fall and Spring 2024–25 theatre performances will be in-person. Production information
is listed below.
Montgomery College's College Performing Arts Series productions often contain adult language and situations. Some productions include discussions of sexuality, sexual abuse, and/or cultural and personal violence.
Purchase TicketsTo recommend a play for Department consideration, please complete and submit this MC Theatre Play Suggestion formnew window.
Students interested in supporting the productions as performers, management, technicians, and crew should email Professor Hengen for more information.
Theatre Season 2024-25
NOTICE: Auditions for the Fall semester 2024 will be for both shows.
Auditions: Wednesday, September 11 & Thursday, September 12, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.
Callbacks: Friday, September 13, noon–4 p.m.
Location: Theatre Arts Arena (TA)
Auditionees can prepare a verse monologue (i.e. Shakespeare/Moliere/Ives) and a joke or short physical comedy routine. Sides for the audition can also be found in the Theatre main office.
Two workshops focusing on stylized performance will be offered Friday, Sept 6, 11am
and Monday, Sept 9, 11am in TA148.
Auditionees are advised to attend both.
The Liar
Written by David Ives, adapted from the comedy by Pierre Corneille
Directed by Tyler Herman
Wednesday, October 23 to Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 27, 2 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena, Rockville campus (map)
The Liar is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service new window
“Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he
has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton,
a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young
woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. What our hero regrettably
does not know is that Clarice is secretly engaged to his best friend, Alcippe. Nor
is he aware that his father is trying to get him married to Clarice, whom he thinks
is Lucrece, who actually is in love with him. From all these misunderstandings and
a series of breathtakingly intricate lies springs one of the Western world's greatest
comedies, a sparkling urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it,
brilliantly adapted for today by All in the Timing's David Ives.”
~ Dramatists Play Servicenew window
TicketsPOTUS, or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Written by Selina Fillinger
Directed by Irene Alby
Wednesday, November 13 to Saturday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday, November 17, 2 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena, Rockville campus (map)
POTUS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricalsnew window
“One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President
unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered
women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the
commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger's brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.”
~ Concord Theatricalsnew window
TicketsBook, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by Ian Anthony Coleman
Music Direction by Dr. Jay Crowder
Wednesday, February 26 to Saturday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m.
Parilla Performing Arts Center, Rockville campus (map)
Grease is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricalsnew window
“Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace
Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers,
evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser"
Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of
their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such
songs as "Greased Lightnin'," "It's Raining on Prom Night," "Alone at the Drive-In
Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that
became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent
revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among
the world's most popular musicals.”
~ Concord Theatricalsnew window