Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Nutcracker by Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Bowie CPA, Dec 5-6

The Nutcracker by Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Bowie CPA, Dec 5-6

The Ballet Theatre of Maryland presents:
The Nutcracker
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Description: The Ballet Theatre of Maryland invites you to the most famous Holiday Party of all time – The Nutcracker. Battle the Rat Queen and her minions and help Clara rescue her beloved Nutcracker from the Rat Queen’s spell as you share in her enchanted adventure through the Land of the Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets where she receives the magical wand that can make all her dreams and ours, come true.

Two Nutcracker performances:
Saturday December 5th at 7:00 pm
Sunday December 6th at 3:00 pm.

The Box Office opens 1 hour before showtime.

For subscription or single tickets to the BCPA shows, please visit the BTM website: http://www.balletmaryland.org or call 410-263-8289.

These performances are sponsored in part by a generous grant from the City of Bowie.

If these dates won’t fit into your busy schedule, the Ballet Theatre of Maryland will present the Nutcracker at the Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Performances are slated for: Saturdays, December 12 and 19 at 7:00 p.m. Sundays, December 13 and 20 at 1:00 and 4:30 p.m. Visit the Maryland Hall’s website for info and tickets: http://www.marylandhall.org.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Dec 4-20

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Dec 4-20

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
by Barbara Robinson
Directed by Rocky Nunzio
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Friday December 4, 2015 through Sunday December 20, 2015

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids–probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on! This delightful comedy is adapted from the best-selling Young Adult book, and has become a holiday staple for groups across the United States! Features plenty of great roles for children and adults, a few favorite Christmas Carols, and a lot of laughs!

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.. Performances run weekends from Friday December 4, 2015 through Sunday December 20, 2015 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $15. Tickets can be purchased by clicking the link below. For further information, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Christmas Belles by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Dec 4-20

Christmas Belles by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Dec 4-20

Christmas Belles
By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances: December 4 – 20, 2015
December 4-20, 2015
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sunday matinees at 2PM
Please note: Add’l Saturday matinee December 12 – 2PM

Description: It’s Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters—Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye—are trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb’s Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But all is not sweetness and light at the manger. In true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!

Buy tickets on-line.

A Christmas Cactus at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Dec 4-19

A Christmas Cactus at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Dec 4-19

A Christmas Cactus
by Eliot Byerrum
a Guest Production from Off The Quill

Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8:30pm
Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 8:00pm
Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, December 11, 2015 at 8:00pm
Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, December 18, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 8:00pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

It’s Christmas Eve and everyone’s looking for a miracle. Two bumbling fugitives want help proving their innocence, the deputy DA wants a date, and Fred wants a vacation away from his overbearing mother. Private investigator Cactus O’Riley just wants a quiet night and a career change. What she gets instead is a merry, manic mystery that turns her life upside down, but might just prove the biggest miracle yet.

Ticket prices: $20 General Admission, $16 Senior/Student/Military, $12 Youth

Buy tickets here.

Kreativity Diversity Troupe at Clarice Smith, Dec 4 & 5

Kreativity Diversity Troupe at Clarice Smith, Dec 4 & 5

Kreativity Diversity Troupe End of Semester Performance
Fri, Dec 4, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Dec 5, 2015 . 2:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Free, no tickets required. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, general admission.

Kreativity Diversity Troupe, kreated in 1995, is an all-inclusive performance group from the University of Maryland.

The members, known as Kreators, write, direct, produce, perform and stage their own original work. The work that they kreate centers around a single theme that is compiled into a culminating performance at the end of each semester.

Interested in learning more about Kreativity? Email kreativity.troupe@gmail.com and like them on Facebook!