Travel back in time to an era when you believed everything you heard on the radio and there was no high-definition television, or actually, no TV at all. Mix that with some folks in a small Southern town on a lazy Sunday night and you have the setting for Prince George's Little Theatre's production of "The Battle of Shallowford," playing at the Bowie Playhouse.

The year is 1938 and its Oct. 30. America is on the brink of war with the Germans led by Adolf Hitler. People are nervous anyway and when the small group at Burton Mock's general store in Shallowford hear the radio drama "The War of the Worlds," they really believe the...