National Players

Of Mice and Men

America's longest running classical touring company, has now reached its 63rd consecutive season of touring. Currently the touring program of Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, National Players has earned a distinctive place in American theater. Committed to the formation of young theatrical talent and audiences, National Players seeks to celebrate the experience of theatergoing by presenting the world's greatest dramatic literature.

From the author of The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men marks another National Players classic tale. In this tragic and endearing story, we follow the mismatched friendship of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers in Depression-Era California. Small George has big dreams and tiny frame, while the large but simple Lennie seeks the comfort of everyday little pleasures. Just as George's dreams seem within reach, his compassion is tested through Lennie's mistakes.

What makes true men and what makes true friends?

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The Sound of Charleston

Come experience the sound that defines this most charming and historic of cities—jazz, gospel, Gershwin, Gullah, spirituals, Civil War song and colonial era classics from Charleston's Golden Age.

Each Sound of Charleston concert will feature selections that will connect you with the city's more than three century heritage of music, people and events such as—

 * Songs of the Civil War—hear the camp songs from both sides in the city where the first shots were fired.

* Gershwin's Porgy & Bess and Rhapsody in Blue

* Pachelbel's Canon —the famous composer's son, who was also a composer, was a leading musician in colonial America and one of the first organists at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.

 * Charleston's jazz tradition in the true birthplace of the artform

  * Spirituals of the slaves who first came to America out of this city's ports .

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National Players

The Taming of the Shrew

America's longest running classical touring company, has now reached its 63rd consecutive season of touring. Currently the touring program of Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, National Players has earned a distinctive place in American theater. Committed to the formation of young theatrical talent and audiences, National Players seeks to celebrate the experience of theatergoing by presenting the world's greatest dramatic literature.

One of the best-loved "Battle of the Sexes" is back, with a Wild West flare!  Cowboy boots, whips, and lassos give a biting punch to this classic.  Sparring lovers Kate and Petruchio duke it out on the western frontier.  Will they ride off into the sunset or die tryin'?  The verbal duel never stops as National Players presents one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.  Giddyup!

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