Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. A remarkable and humane play that you will remember till your dying day.
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Waitress
Olney Theatre Center (2/13 - 3/30) | |
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Swan Lake
Ballet Theatre of Maryland (4/25 - 4/26) | |
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
ArtsCentric (3/28 - 4/20) | |
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Sleepova
Olney Theatre Center (3/26 - 4/27) | |
*Student-Directed Production
Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre, WMC Alumni Hall (5/1 - 5/3) | ||
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Not Dead Yet! - John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50
Pensacola Saenger Theatre (9/25 - 9/25) | |
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The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective Baltimore (4/26 - 4/26) | |
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Working — A Musical
The Colonial Players of Annapolis (2/28 - 3/29) | |
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Please Don''t Destroy
Shelton Auditorium at Butler Arts Center (8/19 - 8/19) | |
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