TDPS Experimental Performance Series at Clarice Smith, May 6 & 7, In person

TDPS Experimental Performance Series at Clarice Smith, May 6 & 7, In person

TDPS Experimental Performance Series
Title TBD written and directed by Jordan Resnick, B.A. Theatre ’22
Title TBD produced by Alie Karambach (B.A. Theatre ’21), Natalia Corvoisier (B.A. Theatre ’22) and Layali Aljirafi (B.A. Theatre ’23)

May 6 & 7, 2022
Fri, May 6, 2022 . 7:30PM
Sat, May 7, 2022 . 2:00PM
Sat, May 7, 2022 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. In Person.

Sacred Spaces written and directed by Jordan Resnick

This live theater piece prompts audiences to reflect on our contemporary relationship with technology and mass media. It asks: How will a generation raised on computer screens and divided by algorithms turn out? How can we break down these barriers to have more open conversations about how our opinions are formed? Resnick presents theater as a medium for social change, urging audiences to action.

Title TBD produced by Alie Karambach, Natalia Corvoisier and Layali Aljirafi

Title TBD is a devised theatrical celebration of, for and by students of color and queer students. This work follows the structure of the Neo-Futurists’ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, with 15 two-minute plays, in an order chosen by the audience. The production arises from an inclusive and collaborative devising process that invites marginalized groups who are often forgotten or silenced in traditional white American theater to express themselves.

Note: Tickets will be available one week before the first show.

Health + Safety: There may be COVID safety policies such as mask requirements in place when you attend this event. Please see our health & safety page for the most up to date information about attendance!

Tickets: Free, tickets required. Click here.

Jamaica Farewell at the Bowie CPA, May 1

Jamaica Farewell at the Bowie CPA, May 1

Jamaica Farewell, A One-Woman Play
Written and performed by Debra Ehrhardt

Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 7pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets: $40 Advance or $48 at the door. Click here.

Jamaica Farewell is a one woman play based on the story of Debra Ehrhardt’s escape from the class struggle that seized Jamaica in the 1970s. Her dangerous journey from the island of her youth to the country of her dreams will enthrall and charm you, and ultimately leave you celebrating at the triumphant conclusion of her autobiographical, one-woman show.

Tartuffe, presented by MAD, Apr 30, Online

Tartuffe, presented by MAD, Apr 30, Online

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club presents:
An online public reading of:
Tartuffe
By Molière
Directed by Randy Barth

Saturday, April 30, 2022, 8pm, live online

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater, online.

Molière was a poet and Tartuffe was written in verse in French. We will use the English translation available at Project Gutenberg which is also in verse. This will be an interesting departure for us from past works, though when you think about it, it is somewhat like musical theater. It will be a new challenge but once again our goal is to have fun participating.

Performance will be live online. Click here.

Fences by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Apr 1-24, In Person

Fences by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Apr 1-24, In Person

Fences
by August Wilson
Directed by: Nicole Mullins-Teasley

April 1-24, 2022

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

This sensational drama tells the story of Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and his son, who now wants his own chance to play baseball. In the powerful, stunning dramatic work that won August Wilson his first Pulitzer Prize, Troy has gone through life in a country where being proud and black meant facing pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950’s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960’s. It’s a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.

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

Buy tickets on-line.

Greenbelt Arts Center Old-Time Radio presents Arch Obler’s Another World aka Alter Ego, Online

Greenbelt Arts Center Old-Time Radio, Online

Greenbelt Arts Center presents
Old Time Radio
Directed by Rikki Howie

By Greenbelt Arts Center, Online.

March 2022:
Arch Obler’s Another World aka Alter Ego

On a cold, dismal, dreary night… in a death-row cell of a southern
penitentiary…a young woman kneels beside her prison cot, weeping, speaking softly to the memory of her mother, and explaining that it all started when she first heard that evil voice within her head.

Featuring Amy Conley, Rob Glass, Katherine Gourianova, Emily C Letchworth, Hillary Leyendecker, and Pamela Northrup

Previous episodes:

February 2022:
The Green Hornet – Justice Wears a Blindfold

December 2021:
Candy Matson: Jack Frost
Fibber McGee and Molly: Fibber Snoops for Presents in the Closet
Grand Central Station: Miracle for Christmas

October 2021:
Dracula

September 2021:
Sterling Detective – Boston’s Lone Wolf Terror

August 2021:
A Logic Named Joe

July 2021:
Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders
The Black Museum: Four Small Bottles

June 2021:
The Green Hornet – The Ghost Who Talked Too Much

May 2021:
Columbia Workshop “Now Playing Tomorrow”

April 2021:
The Black Ace – Skyward

March 2021:
The Shadow – The Silent Avenger
Mystery in the Air – The Mask of Medusa

February 2021:
Fibber McGee and Molly – Valentine Candy
Lights Out – The Locked Room Mystery

January 2021:
My Pal Patsy
Death Calls at Dinner
Cat Wife

December 2020:
Suspense – Twas The Night Before Christmas
My Friend Irma – Irma Wants Extra Money for Christmas

Online performance, click here.

Tags: Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Online, Free Performance, Old Time Radio, Rikki Howie Lacewell