Category Archives: Drama

1001 Black Inventions at the Bowie Center for Performing Arts, Aug 9-18

1001 Black Inventions – The Musical

Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Shows: Friday & Saturday, August 9, 10, 16 & 17 @ 7pm and Sunday, August 11 & 18 @ 2pm.

Tickets: $15 Student, $35 Adult; see below for special offers. Buy tickets here.

Description: $15 Student (Prince George’s County Public School students with a valid student ID or report card admitted free if accompanied by a paying adult and a canned food donation.) $35 Adult (Prince George’s County Public Schools staff free with valid ID and canned food donation.) $50 Partner (As a partner you will be joining QuietFire in finding, hiring and producing new and upcoming Talent. Your investment will be used as seed money to fund such projects as 1001 Black Inventions “the Musical.” In addition, you will receive: Free admission to all shows; VIP ID; Free admission to cast party; Announcements to all upcoming events; Automatic hire of all artists recommended by you; Official Recognition in show programs) “1001 Inventions” is a play that features the lives of brilliant men and women, then takes you into the Twilight Zone, a typical American family attempting to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Audiences laugh themselves into the realization that Black ingenuity is an integral part of their everyday lives.

“The program was extremely entertaining, touching, and educational for adults of all ages and cultures. So well supported that we would like to have you back.”
Nalda Callender, Program Coordinator – National Congress of Black Women Foundation, Vancouver Canada

1001 Inventions – “Laced with humor and peppered with music… the historical figures show students they can be anything regardless of the restrictions placed on them.” Jocelyn Stewart – Los Angeles Times

The Mousetrap by Parlor Room Theater at Bishop McNamara HS, July 25 – Aug 4

Parlor Room Theater presents

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap

Bishop McNamara High School Fine Arts Theater

Thursday, July 25 at 7:30
Friday, July 26 at 7:30
Saturday, July 27 at 7:30
Sunday, July 28 at 2:00
Thursday, August 1 at 7:30
Friday, August 2 at 7:30
Saturday, August 3 at 7:30
Sunday, August 4 at 7:30

Tickets are $10. Buy Tickets.

Blackbird by the Hard Bargain Players, July 19 – August 3

Blackbird

Written by David Harrower
Directed by Juliette Kelsey Chagnon

Hard Bargain Players at 2001 Bryan Point Road • Accokeek, MD 20607.

Performances
July 19, 20, 26, 27, August 2 and 3 at 8:00 PM

Parental advisory: Adult themes.

Synopsis
Blackbird is an uneasy reunion between a woman and a middle-aged man fifteen years after having a sexual relationship, when she was twelve. Based on a true story about internet pedofile groomer Toby Studebaker and one of his victims.

I Loathe a Parade in Bowie, July 17

Bowie Community Theatre’s Murder Mystery Theatre

July 17, 2013 – I Loathe a Parade by Jack Pachuta performed at Wendy’s in Bowie, 16400 Harbour Way, Bowie, MD 20716

Solve the Murder and win a prize!

Performance starts at 7:00PM

Ticket Price – FREE

BCT hopes that you eat dinner at Wendy’s that night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases will be donated to BCT.

The Lion in Winter at Joe’s Movement Emporium, July 12-14

The Raye Players of Lumina Studio Theatre present
THE LION IN WINTER
By James Goldman

July 12 – 14
@ Joe’s Movement Emporium
3309 Bunker Hill Road
Mt. Rainier, MD
Tickets on sale NOW at http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com

Friday, July 12, 8PM
Saturday, July 13, 2PM and 8PM
Sunday, July 14, 2PM and 8PM

Description:

It is Christmas 1183 and you’re invited to a family gathering and to bear witness to King Henry II of England’s announcement of who will succeed him on the throne. But which one of Henry & Eleanor’s sons will be the next king? Unlike Lear, Henry won’t divide his house. Henry wants John, Eleanor wants Richard and no one, except Geoffrey, wants Geoffrey.

Philip, King of France, is demanding the marriage of his sister, Alais, to Richard. But Richard doesn’t want her and Henry does.

So, in may ways, it’s just your typical holiday get-together with lots of family drama. Power and allegiances shift as the players vie for the throne – the one constant being the deep love between Henry & Eleanor.

Join Lumina’s newest performing group – The Raye Players for one of the funniest, devious, romantic holiday celebrations ever.