The Rude Mechanicals in Residence at The Greenbelt Arts Center present:
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
directed by Liana Olear
February 2 – 10, 2024
Location: Greenbelt Arts Center
Ticket prices: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.
An innovative staging of a Shakespeare classic. In a near-future Scotland beset by rebellion, treason, and troublesome prophecies, who is fit to govern?
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.
Laurel Mill Playhouse presents:
12 Angry Jurors
By Sherman L. Sergel
Directed by Tatum Moss
Produced by Maureen Rogers
Performances: January 12 – 28, 2024
Friday January 12th, 2024, 8pm
Saturday January 13th, 2024, 8pm
Friday January 19th, 2024, 8pm
Saturday January 20th, 2024, 8pm
Sunday January 21st, 2024, 2pm
Friday January 26th, 2024, 8pm
Saturday January 27th, 2024, 8pm
Sunday January 28th, 2024, 2pm
Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case for the 12 Jurors responsible for deciding his fate—until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts. Soon, each juror reveals his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new threat is born before their eyes!
Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: $24
Children 18 and under, Seniors 65 and over, and active duty military: $20
Buy tickets here.
For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.
Class Act Performing Arts presents The Tale of the Polar Express!
Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 11am, 2pm, and 5pm
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets: $20. Click here.
Nehprii Amenii: Food for the Gods
December 7-9, 2023
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 . 7:00PM
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 . 9:00PM
Fri, Dec 8, 2023 . 7:00PM
Fri, Dec 8, 2023 . 9:00PM
Sat, Dec 9, 2023 . 7:00PM
Sat, Dec 9, 2023 . 9:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
A multimedia performance installation about “human value,” Food for the Gods is a three-part expression of rage and indifference. Inspired by the killings of Black men, this work uses object and puppet performance to explore dehumanization, light, invisibility and well…the magical-less-ness of it all.
Nehprii Amenii is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, production designer and educator. As a theater artist, she has a passion for personal narratives, puppetry and grand-scale spectacle. She is known for creating experiences that dismantle the wall between players and audiences, enchant the imagination and inspire new ways of seeing and thinking. Amenii has worked with Bread & Puppet Theater, Alvin Ailey, La Mama, The O’Neill, NY Philharmonic and more. She is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and a resident director with the Drama League. Amenii is artistic director of Khunum Productions, a platform for creative anthropology.
Food for the Gods has been presented at Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Cape Town, South Africa, Connecticut Repertory Theatre and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, NYC.
Tickets: $25 general, $10 students. Click here
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