Category Archives: Drama

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7 pm
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce their return to Joe’s in April 2025.

The show will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. No one turned away for lack of funds. We mean it. If you need assistance with a ticket, please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com.

*Please note that, as a political theater company, we aim to keep our work as up-to-the-minute and relevant as possible. Our work is constantly changing.*

Tickets: $35 General, $25 Youth/Senior. Click here.

Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 14-Apr 6

Romeo & Juliette at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Mar 14-Apr 6

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents:
ROMEO & JULIETTE
by William Shakespeare
Adapted & directed by Jacqueline Youm
Music Composed and Directed by Andrew Mauer
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Performances March 14, 2025 – April 6, 2025, Performances Fri. at 8 PM; Sat. at 1 or 2 PM; Sat at 8 PM; Sun. at 2 PM.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Ticket prices are as follows:
Adults: $20, Children 18 and under, Seniors 65 and over, and active duty military: $15

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Upstage Artists presents Rope, Feb 21-Mar 2

Upstage Artists presents Rope, Feb 21-Mar 2

Upstage Artists presents:
Rope
by Patrick Hamilton
directed by Rick Bergmann

Show dates: February 21 – March 2, 2025

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the “fun of the thing,” Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth’s father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table.

Tickets: $11.50. For more information click here.

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Clarice, Feb 21-28

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Clarice, Feb 21-28

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
by Ntozake Shange
directed by Ama Law and Fatima Quander

February 21–28, 2025
Fri, Feb 21, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 23, 2025 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 26, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes an audio description.
Thu, Feb 27, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes ASL interpretation.
Fri, Feb 28, 2025 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Ntozake Shange’s highly influential 1976 choreopoem for colored girls… might well be the most performed and important piece of theater created expressly by and for Black women in the history of the United States. The work has been adapted for both film and television and can boast a Tony-nominated Broadway revival as recently as 2022. UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies faculty members Ama Law and Fatima Quander direct a loving rendition of Shange’s masterpiece that proves its timelessness.

Tickets: $25 Public, $10 Students, click here.