Category Archives: Drama

Winter at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jun 21-30

Winter at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Jun 21-30

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents:
Winter
by Mark Scharf
Directed by Lori Bruun
produced by Maureen Rogers

June 21 – 30, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

No one should be alone in winter. Set in a beach town on Maryland’s eastern shore, the play follows the twists and turns of two 60-somethings: Bonnie, a waitress and painter that knows herself too well, and Sam, a writer who is struggling wiith illness and growing old. This bittersweet play explores how a past action impinges on the present and the enduring connections between two people in the winter of their lives.

Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: $20, Children 18 and under, Seniors 65 and over, and active duty military: $15

Buy tickets here.

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Fiveplay at the Greenbelt Arts Center, May 31-Jun 15

Fiveplay at the Greenbelt Arts Center, May 31-Jun 15

The Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
Fiveplay
by local playwright Erica Smith
directed by Rocky Nunzio

May 31 – June 15, 2024

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

An affectionate look at polyamory and the modern family. Emerson’s dating Sawyer, who’s married to Monty, who’s dating Ray, who’s also dating Avery, who’s married to Emerson. And their friend Keegan lives with them too. This is a show about a family — Venn House, six people who chose one another. Sure, sometimes poly people’s problems are about relationships. Sometimes they’re about jobs, or money, or haunted antiques. And sometimes family is even more complicated than it seems.

Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

Life Interrupted at the Bowie CPA, May 4 & 5

Life Interrupted at the Bowie CPA, May 4 & 5

Connecting Lives Productions Presents:
Life Interrupted Stage Play
by Elder Chanté Thompson

Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 4pm
Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 4pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Life Interrupted is a 2023 drama stage play written, directed, and produced by Elder Chanté Thompson. During Mental Health Awareness Month, we will shed light on mental health challenges and overcoming those obstacles. Meet seven patients who learn how to heal spiritually while dealing with their mental health obstacles.

This play’s story is told from inside a mental health institution by mental health patients who describe their pain and struggle. One suffers from PTSD, another is bipolar, another has schizophrenia, another has an eating disorder, another has dissociative disorder, and another has depression. In a world where mental health challenges are on the rise, meet this phenomenal cast as they deliver an exceptional dramatic performance and help our community understand, work through, and recover from this nationwide crisis.

The play stars Kaneya Morgan, Marcus Davis, Lorrie Davis, Nick Gamble, Chanale Taylor, Nadia Palacios, Kevin (CJ) Harrison, Cornelius Wyatt, Edward Crews, Robin Willingham, Octavia Latrice, Howard Lee, Maurice Lee, Anissa Stewart, Freddie Simmons, Rachel Johnson, and Khloe’ Holbert.

Tickets: $35 to $45. Click here.

SALT: Work-in-Progress at Clarice Smith, Apr 18-20

SALT: Work-in-Progress at Clarice Smith, Apr 18-20

SALT: Work-in-Progress
Performance from André Zachery

Saturday, April 20, 2024 • 5-6:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

“Salt” is an excerpt from a current work-in-development collaboration between interdisciplinary choreographer André M. Zachery and interdisciplinary sound/media artist Sadah Espii Proctor entitled “Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans and Other Urban Legends.” This section is named and inspired by a novel of the same name by Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace, the tale of “Igbo Landing” and the legend of “the people who could fly.” The relationship between “the water” and “flight” is symbiotic and at times reciprocal in African Diaspora cultural landscapes. This excerpt contends with how we are moving the speculative, unseen and yet to be heard towards the center of our trajectory while collectively engaging in futuring practices.

This event is part of Moving with Screens + Machines: A Symposium on Embodied Practices and Technology.

Free, registration required. Click here.

MAYA, Phenomenal Woman at Bishop McNamara High School, Apr 19

MAYA, Phenomenal Woman at Bishop McNamara High School, Apr 19

Bishop McNamara High School presents
MAYA, Phenomenal Woman

April 19-28, 2024
April 19, 20, 26, & 27 at 7:00 pm
April 21 & 28 at 2:00 pm

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

MAYA, Phenomenal Woman is a dance drama celebrating the extraordinary life of Maya Angelou. Using her series of autobiographies, from Caged Bird to Mom & Me & Mom, as well as her greatest poems, this production hopes to educate, challenge, and entertain audiences through the power of African Music and Dance.

Tickets $15. Click here.