Monthly Archives: January 2024

Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Jan 27

Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Jan 27

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy

Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 7pm & 9:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy Series, this month featuring special guests Brooklyn Mike, Timmy Hall, and Cool Bubba Ice! Plus, there will be live music by Sound of the City, featuring Precious Joubert and DJ Two Tone Jones, and delicious food from Ruby’s Southern Comfort Kitchen!

Tickets: $35 to $45. Click here.

Blue Sky Puppets presents Rufus at the SAARC, Jan 27

Blue Sky Puppets presents Rufus at the SAARC, Jan 27

M-NCPPC presents:
Blue Sky Puppet Theatre Presents “Rufus”

Sat., Jan. 27, 2024, 9:30 am

Location: Southern Area Aquatic and Recreation Complex
Address: 13601 Missouri Avenue, Brandywine, MD 20613
Phone: 301 782 1442

Blue Sky Puppet Theatre presents “Rufus,” a fast-paced and funny story about acceptance and inclusion with an adorable main character.

Tickets ($5/children 12 & under, $10/adult)

Inua Ellams: Search Party at Clarice Smith, Jan 26 & 27

Inua Ellams: Search Party at Clarice Smith, Jan 26 & 27

Inua Ellams: Search Party
In partnership with the Under the Radar Festival

Fri, Jan 26, 2024 . 7:00PM
Sat, Jan 27, 2024 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

A man walks into a room with his life in his hands. He is the internationally acclaimed artist and playwright Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half God of Rainfall) and he has filled thousands of pages in an ongoing attempt to be heard, to give his genius wings that can travel. Every word he’s ever written is captured, all the poems and the theater and the essays, the drafts of projects abandoned and works as yet unknown, indexed, rendered as binary and waiting patiently within the confines of the electronic tablet he’s holding even now. Pick a word, any word. Prompted by audience suggestion and open conversation, Ellams searches through his archive, unearths refined or raw gold and presents his treasure in a spontaneous performance. Search Party is an act of call and response that hearkens back to the birth of storytelling. At this uniquely futuristic and puckishly chaotic interactive event, the artist couldn’t be more present. He’s inviting you to join the work. What do you say?

Tickets: $30 or $10 Students. Click here.

Tig Notaro at Clarice Smith, Jan 26

Tig Notaro at Clarice Smith, Jan 26

Tig Notaro

Fri, Jan 26, 2024 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor and actor, as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “Ellen.” Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Notaro appears in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery.” She wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi” and just released her second HBO special “Tig Notaro: Drawn.” In 2021, Tig co-directed the feature film “Am I OK?” with wife Stephanie Allynne, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available on HBO Max later this year. She hosts the critically acclaimed advice podcast, “Don’t Ask Tig,” as well as co-hosts the ridiculous documentary film podcast “Tig and Cheryl: True Story.”

Tickets: $30 to $60 or $10 Students Click here.

Auditions for Shadow Hour at Bowie Community Theatre, Jan 22-23

Auditions for Shadow Hour at Bowie Community Theatre, Jan 22-23

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
Shadow Hour
by Ralph Tropf

Auditions: January 22 & 23, 2024, 7pm to 9pm each night
Callbacks on January 24, 7pm

Performances: April 5 – 28, 2024

Audition location: Grace Lutheran Church, 2503 Belair Drive, Bowie, MD, 20715
Performance location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Synopsis:
This is a courtroom drama for eight women and four men. A young woman has accused a United States senator of sexual assault. The jury finds itself sharply divided. As they debate the evidence, flashbacks to the courtroom show how each juror has interpreted the testimony differently. Flashbacks to the events as they happened show that the witnesses in the trial interpret what happened differently. The truth, it seems, is lost in shadows. Shadow Hour is a contemporary story that gives each cast member the opportunity to play two parts. Many roles are ideal for older actresses.

From director Nicole Mullens-Teasley:
Shadow Hour delves into challenging and morally ambiguous situations, particularly related to the legal proceedings and the characters’ personal experiences. The title may reflect the murky and shadowy nature of truth, justice, and human behavior, as well as the moral dilemmas faced by the characters. The use of “shadow hour” in the title could also suggest a time of reckoning, introspection, and the unveiling of hidden truths, mirroring the dramatic tension and revelations within the narrative. The challenge with this kind of situation is the perspective and subjectivity of the recall of events and accuracy of what happened. The goal is for the audience to feel the discomfort and relatability of the topics in a modern sense with a positive lens on communication, problem-solving, and seeing perspectives we might be naturally biased to miss. It’s very easy to interpret things wrong. The hope is that when people leave the theater, they leave it talking about how they understood each character and their position so we can work together more effectively today.

For more information click here.