Category Archives: Drama

Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, Dec 7

Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, Dec 7

Experimental Performance Series #2
Saturday, December 7, 2024 • 2PM & 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The Experimental Performance Series is a collection of self produced works from undergraduate and graduate students in theatre and dance, ranging from production of established works to brand new plays and choreography.

The Energy Within
Choreographer: Avital Dresin

Exploring the pulse of the 7 Chakras, the centers of power in the human body, The Energy Within reveals the different rhythms of our energy. This piece illustrates the inner landscape of the self by uniting the physical and emotional through movement.
Run Time: 23 minutes

Cradle to Grave
Choreographer: C Macko

Cradle to Grave is a satirical lecture about environmental dance set in a climate future, no less dystopian than popular depictions, but far more mundane. Through a live lecturer, comedic faux interviews, and three original dance pieces, Cradle to Grave explores themes of hypocrisy, anxiety, regret, and guilt and investigates the impact of our environmental advocacy and art making practices.
Run Time: 29 minutes

Delta Blue
Choreographer: Zoe Cushman Walders
The pockets of ocean that reside in each of us drive Delta Blue. Sweeping and settling, the work explores the constant relational, cumulative, depositing and conflating nature of watery relations.
Run Time: 19 minutes

Tickets: free, tickets required, click here.

A Christmas Carol at the Bowie CPA, Dec 6-15

A Christmas Carol at the Bowie CPA, Dec 6-15

The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts presents:
A Christmas Carol
Adapted from the book by Charles Dickens
Directed by Christopher Dwyer
Assistant Directed by Briana Manente

December 6 – 15, 2024
Friday, December 6 at 11am (school matinee performance)
Saturday, December 7 at 4pm
Sunday, December 8 at 3pm
Saturday, December 14 at 7:30pm
Sunday, December 15 at 3pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

BCPA announces their 2nd annual production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing this December! Directed by BCPA Executive Director Christopher Dwyer and Assistant Directed by Briana Manente, A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the BCPA features a cast of professional actors and musicians sharing the stage with community performers who sing in the Community Chorus and act as the ensemble, filling out the world of the play!

Step back in time to Victorian London for one of the world’s most beloved stories, told with music, magic, humor, and heart in this acclaimed adaptation at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Follow London’s most notorious miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, as he journeys through time with a host of spirits to re-discover his own humanity — and the spirit of the holidays.

Cycles at the Bowie CPA, Nov 16-17

Cycles at the Bowie CPA, Nov 16-17

The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts
Stonefield Productions presents:
Cycles
A Stage Play

Saturday November 16, 2024 at 6:30pm
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 4:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Stonefield Productions presents Cycles: A Stage Play at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts on November 16-17, 2024.

Tickets: $40 Click here.

Metamorphoses at the Clarice, Nov 15-22

Metamorphoses at the Clarice, Nov 15-22

Metamorphoses
November 15–22, 2024
Fri, Nov 15, 2024 . 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 17, 2024 . 2:00PM
Tue, Nov 19, 2024 . 7:30PM
Wed, Nov 20, 2024 . 7:30PM
Thu, Nov 21, 2024 . 7:30PM
Fri, Nov 22, 2024 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Ovid’s timeless poem Metamorphoses leaps to stunning life in Mary Zimmerman’s Tony-nominated adaptation. Set in and around a central onstage pool of water that provides the hub of each of Metamorphoses’ many vignettes, Zimmerman’s bold retelling juxtaposes antiquity and modernity in an exploration of the power of theater across centuries. UMD Assistant Professor KenYatta Rogers directs this production, celebrating the persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change.

Tickets: $25 or $10 student/youth. Click here.

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World at Clarice Smith, Nov 14-15

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World at Clarice Smith, Nov 14-15

The Javaad Alipoor Company: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
November 14 & 15, 2024 • 8PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Fereydoun Farrokhzad is invisible to everyone apart from, mostly, Iranians, because nobody apart from them ever has to think about him.

In 1992, the Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad, sometimes called Iran’s Tom Jones, was found brutally murdered in his home in Germany, only six months after playing to sold-out audiences at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The case was never solved.

This witty, fast-paced and cutting-edge production cuts to the heart of the biggest true crime case that you have never heard of. An investigation into both an iconic murder and an investigation into the nature of the investigation itself.

Part free-wheeling comic lecture, part podcast and part play and accompanied by live music, Things Hidden is a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and murder mystery podcasts, sorting through the tangle of information available online in a post-colonial world to reveal the limits of the search engines in solving a decades-old cold case.

Things Hidden builds on the success of Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran which made its US debut at Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival in 2021, before playing at Sundance Film Festival and being selected as one of Helen Shaw’s “Best Theatre of 2021” in Vulture Magazine.

Tickets: $30 or $10 student/youth. Click here.