Category Archives: Drama

Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 15-25

Juxtapose: A Theatrical Shadow Box at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 15-25

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
JUXTAPOSE | A Theatrical Shadow Box

Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 16, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 2 pm
Monday, May 19, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Friday, May 23, 2025, at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 24, 2025, at 2 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 25, 2025, at 2 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

JUXTAPOSE is a theatrical assemblage set in a magical-realist tenement building. Five eccentric characters are trying to co-exist during the sixth mass extinction. The show is inspired in part by the shadow boxes of Joseph Cornell, in which isolated objects are brought together within a frame to create poetic possibilities. As humanity teeters on the edge of the frame, JUXTAPOSE offers audiences a reminder that our shared mortality, our common humanity, the ability to laugh at fear and the limitless hope of imagination might save us from the despair of ending.

Tickets $25 general, $15 Senior/Child. Click here.

Alarm Will Sound: Paper Pianos at the Clarice, May 10

Alarm Will Sound: Paper Pianos at the Clarice, May 10

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Alarm Will Sound: Paper Pianos
Saturday, May 10, 2025 • 8PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

This evening-length multimedia work theatrically explores displacement, longing and the optimism of refugees. Paper Pianos, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian, combines narratives from four refugees and resettlement workers with intricate hand-drawn animations by artist Kervork Mourad that dramatically depict emotions experienced around the world.

Tickets: $20-$50 Public, $10 Students, click here.

Help is on the Way at the Bowie CPA, May 3

Help is on the Way at the Bowie CPA, May 3

MDJ Productions presents:
Help is on the Way
A Stage Play
By Marissa D. Jackson
Inspired by: Smiley J. @smileyjartistzone

Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 4pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Confronting the silent legacy of generational stress and mental health wellness in the Black Community. As we take a deeper dive into life situations that are most times just not talked about enough, which in turn can cause a Mental Health crisis.

Tickets: $35-$55. Click here.

Upstage Artists presents Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Apr 25-May 4

Upstage Artists presents Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Apr 25-May 4

Upstage Artists presents:
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
by Todd Kreidler
directed by John Cusumano

Show Dates: April 25-27 and May 2-4, 2025

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

A progressive white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fiance home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Blindsided by their daughter’s whirlwind romance and fearful for her future, Matt and Christina Drayton quickly come to realize the difference between supporting a mixed-race couple in your newspaper and welcoming one into your family — especially in 1967. But they’re surprised to find they aren’t the only ones with concerns about the match, and it’s not long before a multi-family clash of racial and generational difference sweeps across the Draytons’ idyllic San Francisco terrace. At the end of the day, will the love between young Joanna and John prevail? With humor and insight, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner begins a conversation sure to continue at dinner tables long after the curtain comes down.

Tickets: $11.50. For more information click here.

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.