Category Archives: Drama

HotHouse at Clarice Smith, Feb 22-23

HotHouse at Clarice Smith, Feb 22-23

Baye & Asa: HotHouse

February 22 & 23, 2023 . 8PM
Wed, Feb 22, 2023 . 8:00PM
Thu, Feb 23, 2023 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Directed by Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington and Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt, Baye & Asa is a company creating movement art projects. The duo met when they were six years old––their long friendship giving them the freedom and safety to constantly disagree and expand each other’s artistic capacity. Their brotherhood nourishes the evolution of their work and the physical aggression in their choreography is a representation of their political rage and a yearning to personally implicate themselves. Hip-hop and African dance languages are the foundation of their technique. With it, they build theatrical metaphors, interrogate systemic inequities and contemporize ancient allegories.

Coming to The Clarice in 2022-23 is the duo’s new work HotHouse. ​​HotHouse is a commentary on confinement, a dance/theater performance, a durational installation and an exploration of how our failed response to COVID-19 has unmasked the greater systemic failures of America. It interrogates how and why inequities that predated the pandemic–in healthcare, housing, education, incarceration–erupted at the center of our political discourse.

Pay what you wish. Click here.

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

Voices of Woodlawn at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 18

Voices of Woodlawn at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 18

Voices of Woodlawn
Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

In a unique collaboration, three Black poets and a white poet from the D.C. area will share their moving poetry about the troubled history of the Woodlawn Plantation in Alexandria, Va. Featuring Patrick Washington, Ladi Di Beverly, Diane Wilbon Parks, Dr. Hiram Larew and Cliff Bernier on harmonica.

Tickets: Pay-what-you-wish. Click here.

Sankofa! at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 10-11

Sankofa! at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 10-11

Taratibu Youth Association presents: SANKOFA!
The Taratibu Youth Association (TYA) invites you to the TYA 2023 Black History Show, “SANKOFA!”

February 10 & 11, 2023
Friday February 10th 7 pm Show
Saturday February 11th Reception from 1:30 pm- 3 pm
Saturday February 11th 4 pm Show

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

This show acknowledges and honors some of the lessons of our path and how we, in the diaspora have incorporated them over the years and now. We tell the story of the Tulsa Massacre, West African young woman’s Rite of Passage, South African Apartheid and select stories through the decades for African Americans. Join us for a celebration of the resiliency and greatness of our people.

Tickets: $30 general, $25 students, $40 reception. Click here.

Rotten Apple at the Bowie CPA, Feb 4 & 5

Rotten Apple at the Bowie CPA, Feb 4 & 5

BLNK presents:
Rotten Apple
by Barry Battle

Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:00pm
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 2:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

A man tormented by failed dreams is unwittingly given an opportunity to relocate his family to The Big Apple. His struggle between passion and family draws thin when a Rotten Apple enters their lives. Blinded by selfishness, will the foundation of which he’s built his home withstand or implode?

Tickets: $65-$80. Click here.

Happenstance Theater: ADRIFT at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 26-Feb 5

Happenstance Theater: ADRIFT at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 26-Feb 5

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Happenstance Theater: ADRIFT

January 26 – February 5, 2023
Thursday, January 26th @ 7:30 PM
Friday, January 27th @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 28th @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, January 28th @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 29th @ 3:00 PM
Friday, February 3rd @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 4th @ 3:00 PM
Saturday, February 4th @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 5th @ 3:00 PM

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Happenstance Theater is presenting a new work inspired by medieval imagery and archetypes collected from the works of Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, the Tarot, and reinterpretations of religious and alchemical art. Drawing parallels between our current moment and the “dark ages,” the ensemble will explore and exploit buffoonery, magic, notions of good, evil, and absurdity with angelic music, devised and existing text, puppetry, visual delight, and movement. Like a ship of fools, this pod of eccentrics will drift into the world to bring delight, share hopes and fears, find a way forward, and then parade away.  

Tickets: $25 or $15 Senior/Children. Click here.