SPOTLIGHTERS brings together a diverse group of directors and actors to present and evening of short plays. Melainie Eifert leads the evening directing a new work by Chris Rayman, SEX SELLS. Comedy abounds with a view of retail Christmas, complete with a hostage taking Santa! Alex Campbell directs WHY NOT? by Erica Smith, which poses the question: "WHY NOT push the button that will end the world and wipe out all existence?"

Also in this evening of shorts will be DATE WITH A STRANGER (directed by Ian Bonds) and CAGEBIRDS (directed by Kelly Cavanaugh) which was previously presented at SPOTLIGHTERS in August and is returning due to audience demand.

AN EVENING OF SHORTS
Friday, Sept 15 and 22, 2006 at 8pm
Sunday, Sept 17 and 24 at 2pm

The second part of SPOTLIGHTERS 45th Anniversary CELEBRATION is
CABARET NIGHTS!

Two evenings of Cabaret Entertainment!

Opening each evening will be local singers and entertainers presenting a WIDE variety of music - some from previous performances at SPOTLIGHTERS and other local theatres. On Saturday, September 16th, Baltimore Improv Group will be the evening headliner. Performing a short program at the close of the evening. InHarmony will be performing at the Saturday, September 23rd Cabaret. The wonderful melodies of Broadway sung by Adele Russell and Peggy Dorsey.

Written by Allison Williams; adapted from the Works of William Shakespeare Directed by Young Actors' Academy Staff A hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play! Everything goes wrong. The witches take over the storytelling, Queen Duncan would rather open a donut franchise than die, Lady M's a bloodthirsty June Cleaver, and the murderers are preoccupied with creating a commercial for their services.

Adapted from the Works of William Shakespeare. Imagine if you will that "Hamlet" was not "Hamlet" at all, but "Hamlette" - a girl! This play is a twisty-turny interpretation of the classic Danish tale. Why spend four hours telling the story when five actors can get the job done in thirty minutes? Elsinore has never been this funny!

The legendary epic of our time -- winner of Tony, Pulitzer, and Emmy Awards -- is boldly re-imagined in this spare, mythical co-production by New York City's MadShag Performance Group.

Written by Tony Kushner
Directed by Gabriel Shanks; Shannon Maddox, Producer

The Legend of Creepy Hollow

Tabitha Craven has haunted the Creepy Hollow theatre since her murder there twenty years ago....will she seek revenge from beyond the grave?

Written and Directed by CJ Crowe
DO or DIE MYSTERY Production

MAN OF LA MANCHA

A poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. His dream is Everyman's dream. His tilting at windmills is Everyman's great adventure. Somehow, the footlights disappear, time is telescoped and the "Man of La Mancha" speaks for humankind.

Written by Dale Wasserman
Music by Mitch Leigh
Lyrics by Joe Darion
Directed by Robert Teachout

Come spend the holidays with all your old favorite citizens of Tuna, Texas Texas' third smallest town, where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies. and make some new friends while you're there

It's 24 hours before Christmas and all comic hell is about to break loose as the delightfully eccentric characters attempt to cope with seasonal traumas such as a disaster prone little theatre production of A Christmas Carol, and a yard decorating contest that is being sabotaged by a mysterious Christmas phantom! Bring your "Mimi" and join in the holiday fun!

written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
Directed by FUZZ Roark and Ed Zarkowski

SPOTLIGHTERS' Annual Variety Show and Cabaret! Singers, Comics, Poets - and more! Make fun of the last show you were in - or the one that is coming up! It's just a reason to get together one more time for some FUN!

Jean Kerr's wonderfully witty 1960's comedy centers around Mary who masks her basic insecurity behind a razor-sharp wit. Add in her ex-husband and a handsome film star and you have the makings of a hilarious love triangle. Mary, Mary held the record as the longest running non-musical play on Broadway.

Written by Jean Kerr
Directed by Sherrionne Brown

A roaring '20s murder mystery with a mafia twist.

Written and Directed by CJ Crowe
DO or DIE MYSTERY Production

Assassins explores the dark side of the American experience through the lives of nine assassins and would-be assassins from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. Bold, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.

Written by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Rob Oppel

Has terrorism got you down? Have you thought about bank robbery? Is shock therapy just not working anymore? Then, Spotlighters theatre is proud to present, a Baltimore Premiere of local Pulitzer prize winning playwright Paula Vogel's "The Mineola Twins". This sharp socio-political satire points a comic and critical finger at American society from Norman Rockwell to Norman Schwarzkopf. A play for the red white and blue in all of us.

Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Brad J. Ranno
Assistant Director: Christina Enoch

ART OF MURDER

Danger artist Tristan Breton is at it again. They say when Tristan performs, people die.

Written and Directed by CJ Crowe
DO or DIE MYSTERY Production

"Willum, an architect from Terra Haute, IN, is celebrating his 34th birthday, and facing what could be called an early mid-life crisis. But the real crisis comes when the man he credits with saving his life in Vietnam comes to visit, and is far more trouble than Willum could have ever bargained for!"

Written by Larry Shue
Directed by Randy Dalmas

FAT PIG

In a culture obsessed with beauty, can love ever be blind? Tom feels a magnetic attraction for the bright and witty Helen, but his coworkers are committed to saving him from himself. A brutally comic and painfully honest new work.

Written by Neil LaBute
Directed by Bob Russell

MURDER AT THE OH NO! CORRAL

Join the Sunburnt Kid in his search for the person who murdered his famous gunslinger father, Wild Bill Hitchcock. You guessed it...a murder mystery with a wild west twist.

Written by Pomeroy and CJ Crowe;
Directed by CJ Crowe
DO or DIE MYSTERY Production

Our powerful, sexy and uplifting production finishes Tony Kushner's breathtaking journey -- to New York City, Antarctica, San Francisco, Heaven, and back again. "An ecstatic experience...filled with compassion for the strengths and weaknesses we all hold in common" (USA Today). A fantasia of national themes - love, hate, AIDS, homophobia, mental illness, addiction, life and death - - - and HOPE!

Join US - a Great Work has begun!

Written by Tony Kushner
Directed by Alexander D. Carney
Producer: FUZZ Roark

BPF Production
RUDY DOO

written by George Tilson
directed by Jayme Kilburn

Rudy Doo is a dark comedy in two acts: Can a menage a trois be far behind when an abused, run-away heiress and a brain-injured hockey player join a palsied recluse who killed his caretaker with a jelly doughnut?