Category Archives: Drama

Hell is a Bubble Tea Shop at Clarice Smith, Nov 16 & 18

Hell is a Bubble Tea Shop at Clarice Smith, Nov 16 & 18

Second Season:
Hell is a Bubble Tea Shop
by Hana Huie
November 16 & 18, 2018

Fri, Nov 16, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 18, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sun, Nov 18, 2018 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre

What happens when the barriers holding you back from your dreams are also the people closest to you? Hell is a Bubble Tea Shop is a play that explores how we construct identity in the midst of obstacles and expectations… that happen to take the form of a Chinese-American family. We follow the journey of a freshly deceased young woman who tries to use her new perspective on life to make sense of familial expectations and pain.

Free, tickets are required. Click here.

Running on Glass at Venus Theatre, Nov 15-Dec 9

Running on Glass at Venus Theatre, Nov 15-Dec 9

Running on Glass
By Cynthia Cooper

September 20 – October 14, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

A sports scholar entices her friend, a designer and running buddy, to help envision a pop-up museum about women in sports. Six characters from sports history come alive, along with the challenges and successes of diverse people in any field of endeavor. Told in monologues by the two performers, the stories include Althea Gibson, first person to break the color barrier in tennis; Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel; Wilma Rudolph, an African-American Olympic runner who overcame childhood polio; Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish-German athlete used by the Nazis for propaganda; Babe Didrikson, one of the best all-round athletes of any gender, and Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson, a professional pitcher in the Negro Leagues. For ages 8 and up.

Tickets are $40 General Admission, $20 for Friend of Venus, $15 for Student or Senior. Buy tickets here. Venus is selling “Friend of Venus” Membership cards. The cost is $5 and the card allows for ½ price tickets through 2018 and specials and discounts at local Laurel businesses. More information will be available on venustheatre.org

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Antigone at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Nov 14-16

Eleanor Roosevelt High School Theatre Department presents:
Antigone
by Sophocles
Translated by Nicholas Rudall

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.

November 14 – 16, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7pm
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7pm
Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7pm

Tickets: $5. Click here.

Citizen: An American Lyric at Clarice Smith, Nov 9-16

Citizen: An American Lyric at Clarice Smith, Nov 9-16

Citizen: An American Lyric
By Claudia Rankine
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
Directed by Shirley Jo Finney (SDCF Denham Fellow)

November 9 – 16, 2018

Fri, Nov 9, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sat, Nov 10, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sat, Nov 10, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 11, 2018 . 2:00PM
Tue, Nov 13, 2018 . 7:30PM
Wed, Nov 14, 2018 . 7:30PM
Thu, Nov 15, 2018 . 7:30PM
Fri, Nov 16, 2018 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre

Everyday racism can come on slyly—a hasty glance or too-casual comment. Sometimes from a friend. Or a coworker. Other pointed or veiled aggressions play out in the classroom, on the street, on the national stage, in the media, at home—all the time. The cost of micro and macro aggression thrown against a white wall of racism is played out individually as Black Americans, and cannot be ignored. Adapted from Claudia Rankine’s acclaimed book of poetry, this searingly provocative meditation on race in America is not a play. It’s fast-moving, fluid theater at the speed of thought. “Moving, stunning, and formally innovative-in short, a masterwork.” ― Salon

Tickets: General public $25, Student/Youth $10. Click here.

A Piece of My Heart by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Nov 2-18

A Piece of My Heart by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Nov 2-18

A Piece of My Heart
by Shirley Lauro
Directed by: Cody Jones

November 2 – 18, 2018
Week 1: November 2nd at 8 pm, November 3rd at 8 pm, November 4th at 2 pm
Week 2: November 9th at 8 pm, November 10th at 2 pm and 8 pm, November 11th at 2 pm
Week 3: November 16th at 8 pm, November 17th at 8 pm, November 18th at 2 pm

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

A Piece of My Heart provides an absorbing and moving experience about a tumultuous period in American history—the Vietnam War. It is a powerful, true drama about six women who went to Vietnam: five nurses and a country western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays the courageous story of each young woman as she struggles through the experiences that leave scars yet triumphs as a result of their tour through the war-torn nation. With the backdrop of the memorial wall in Washington, A Piece of My Heart is a salute to the men and women who represented our country during a divisive era.

General Admission – $22.00, Seniors (62+) & Students – $17.00.
Group Rates(10 or more people): General Admission, Seniors (62+), Students – $15.00.

Buy tickets on-line.