Category Archives: Drama

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.

Are We At War Yet at Clarice Smith, Apr 19-26

Are We At War Yet at Clarice Smith, Apr 19-26

Are We At War Yet
By Mikhail Durnenkov

April 19-26, 2024
Fri, Apr 19, 2024 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 20, 2024 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 21, 2024 . 2:00PM
Wed, Apr 24, 2024 . 7:30PM
Thu, Apr 25, 2024 . 7:30PM
Fri, Apr 26, 2024 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

With an air of wit and a twinge of anxiety, Mikhail Durnenkov’s Are We At War Yet is a distinctly Russian narrative exploring everyday issues like the threat of war and the psychological effects of propaganda. His dark comedy shows audience members that the fabric that holds society and family together is nothing more than gossamer, and it’s close to tearing.

Tickets: $25 General, or $10 Students. Click here.

Shadow Hour by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Apr 5-28

Shadow Hour by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Apr 5-28

Shadow Hour
by Ralph Tropf
directed by: Nicole Mullens-Teasley

April 5 – 28, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sunday matinees at 2PM

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

General Admission – $25.00, Seniors (62+) & Students – $20.00.

Shadow Hour is an exciting courtroom drama for the stage. A jury is given the task of assigning guilt or innocence to a United States Senator accused of sexual assault. As the jury debates the testimony, flashbacks to the trial show how the members of the panel interpret the evidence through their own bias. Flashbacks to the actual events of the “crime” show how the witnesses themselves also add bias to the evidence. The truth is lost in shadows.

To buy tickets, click here.

Softly Softly The Myth of the Strong Black Woman at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 28

Softly Softly The Myth of the Strong Black Woman at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 28

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Softly Softly The Myth of the Strong Black Woman
Created by Maria Fenton

Thursday March 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Softly, Softly Expressions is a powerful conglomerate of artistic mediums:film, ballet production, art exhibition, readings, and fashion collection centering Black women’s humanity. It illuminates Black women’s costly, treacherous & seemingly mythic composure as they navigate life. Created by multi-hyphenate artist and Howard University professor, Maria Fenton, it touches on race, gender, suicide prevention, domestic violence, mental health, politics, and more. Softly, Softly is a both a battle cry and love story about the grace, reality, & magic of Black women and their often invisible embattled journey.

Tickets $10. Click here.