Category Archives: Drama

Romeo and Juliet at Clarice Smith, Apr 14-16

Romeo and Juliet at Clarice Smith, Apr 14-16

Maryland Shakespeare Players Spring 2023 Mainstage Production
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

April 14-16, 2023
Fri, Apr 14, 2023 . 7:00PM
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 . 2:00PM
Sat, Apr 15, 2023 . 7:00PM
Sun, Apr 16, 2023 . 2:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Vampires. Werewolves. Two households, both alike in dignity.

The Maryland Shakespeare Players are proud to present Romeo and Juliet, fully realized as we believe Shakespeare originally intended –with magic, music and creatures of the night.

We hope you will join us in the Cafritz Theater for a story of deep-seated rivalry, passionate romance, and woeful tragedy. Admission is free.

Audience Advisory: This show features fake blood, staged violence, choreographed intimacy, themes of self harm and portrayal of suicide.

Free, no tickets required. Click here.

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.

The Piano Lesson at Prince George’s Community College, Apr 13-15

The Piano Lesson at Prince George’s Community College, Apr 13-15

Prince George’s Community College presents:
The Piano Lesson
By August Wilson
Directed by Ayesis Clay

Thursday, 13 April 2023 to Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 7:30 PM

Location: Prince George’s Community College, In Person.

Center for Performing Arts, 301 Largo Road Largo, MD 20774

In “The Piano Lesson,” a play about a Black family living in Pittsburgh in 1936, Boy Willie and his friend Lymon reflect different attitudes about self-determination, the process by which a person makes choices about and manages his or her own life.

Tickets: $10 + $4.75; Free for PGCC students, click here.

Medea at Bowie State University, Apr 6-8

Medea at Bowie State University, Apr 6-8

Bowie State University presents:
BSU Theatre Back to Bold, Back to Life: Medea

April 6-8, 2023
Thursday, April 6 at 7:30pm
Friday, April 7 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 8 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, Bowie State University, in person; Livestream available.

A melanated fable of a woman reclaiming her own

BSU Theatre turns to a complex ancient tale of betrayal and revenge in a new devised adaptation of Medea. Though guilty of heinous crimes, this story explores societal permissiveness and forgiveness extended to men which would drive women to do the unimaginable. A blend of contemporary language, movement and aerial choreography, Medea explores the many layers of the mind and a broken heart.

Contact: Elena Velasco, Email: bsutheatre@bowiestate.edu Phone: 301-860-3769

Tickets: $12 general public/$7 students, faculty, seniors. Livestream available. Click here.

All My Sons by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Mar 31-Apr 23

All My Sons by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Mar 31-Apr 23

All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Fred Nelson

March 31 – April 23, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sunday matinees at 2PM
Please note: Add’l Saturday matinee March 20 – 2PM

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

How far would a man go to protect his family, his interests, and his legacy? Joe Keller, the patriarch in All My Sons, desperately wants to secure and maintain the financial security and legacy he spent so many years building, ready to hand it down to his surviving son Chris. At the same time, Joe’s wife Kate is still waiting for their eldest son Larry to return from war, determined that he is alive and will marry the former girl-next-door, Ann –the daughter of Joe’s former business partner who is sitting in prison, punished for Joe’s crimes. To complicate this family drama, Chris and Ann are in love and want to get married. In All My Sons, Arthur Miller creates a post-war American family in a tragic downfall of lies, greed, love, and loss, and demands its audience examine their own social responsibilities to all the sons of American wars.

General Admission – $22.00, Seniors (62+) & Students – $17.00.

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When Aliens Fall from the Sky at Clarice Smith, Mar 31

When Aliens Fall from the Sky at Clarice Smith, Mar 31

When Aliens Fall from the Sky–Work-in-Progress Reading
Friday, March 31, 2023 . 7PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

When Aliens Fall from the Sky is the long-awaited return to the stage of Tony Award winning poet and performance artist Lemon Andersen. Prepared for the Latinx diaspora, Anderson speaks truth to power of the unidentified and undocumented. He spits searing, insightful rhymes about the communities that are the bone marrow of our nation. A one-man show influenced by the autobiographical monologues of Spalding Gray, When Aliens Fall from the Sky is a rally cry for the melting pot of Latinidad to speak and act on the identity crisis in America and join in a collective path forward. Brown fisted, black skinned.

Created, Written and Performed by Lemon Andersen
Directed & Developed by Elise Thoron
Sound Design by Germán Martínez, with additional music by DJ Mode
Creative Producer: Paola Soto
Production Manager/Line Producer: Chisa Yamaguchi
Executive Producer: Rika Lino

Pay what you wish. Click here.

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.