Category Archives: Drama

X at Bowie State University, Mar 10

X at Bowie State University, Mar 10

NYC’s The Acting Company presents
X
by Marcus Gardley

Saturday, March 11, 2017 7:30pm

Visiting production, NYC’s The Acting Company, brings you the assassination of Malcolm X — both the story we think we know and illuminating details that have seldom been shared. It is all brought to vivid, lyrical life in award-winning writer Marcus Gardley’s new play. It will deepen your understanding of one of America’s most complex, compelling historical figures and explore the tumultuous landscape of ideology and activism in the 1960s.

Parental Advisory: Recommended for high school students and above.

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, Bowie State University.

Tickets: $12 general admission, $7 Bowie State students, faculty and staff

Contact:
Bob Bartlett
bbartlett@bowiestate.edu
301-860-3769

The Amish Project at Clarice Smith, Feb 24-Mar 3

The Amish Project at Clarice Smith, Feb 24-Mar 3

The Amish Project
Written by Jessica Dickey
Directed by Mitchell Hébert
February 24-March 3, 2017

Fri, Feb 24, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 25, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 25, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 26, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sun, Feb 26, 2017 . 7:30PM
Wed, Mar 1, 2017 . 7:30PM
Thu, Mar 2, 2017 . 7:30PM
Fri, Mar 3, 2017 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre, general admission.

Shots are fired in a school house, and the world seems to stop. A stunned community — teachers, parents, friends, families of the victims and the perpetrators — must find a way to keep living their lives. This lyrical and potent drama explores the aftermath of a school shooting in an Amish community, and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake. This play was inspired by the tragic 2006 shooting at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Tickets: General Public $25, Student/Youth $10, NextLEVEL $20. Buy tickets here.

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark
Celebrating Black History
Presented by The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Written, produced and directed by Darrell Godfrey.

Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2 & 7 PM

Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 2:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

In 1936, 70 years after the legal end of slavery in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a historical research project commissioned by the Library of Congress. The goal of this enormous project was to locate and interview African Americans who had been born into slavery during the early to mid-1800s.

More than 2,300 former slaves were interviewed; survivors of one of this country’s darkest periods. Their stories became what are now known as the WPA Slave Narratives. Several of these incredible stories are brought to life in the original stage production “Voices in the Dark.”

Tickets: $10, or Free for M-NCPPC employees. Get tickets here.

Tags: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park Maryland, Voices in the Dark, Darrell Godfrey, M-NCPPC

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflón, el silencio del carbón
Silencio Blanco
February 2 – 3, 2017 . 8PM

Thu, Feb 2, 2017 . 8:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, general admission.

Silencio Blanco explores voice through the power of silence in a world where corporate greed feeds corruption. A young man is thrown out of the coal pit where he works, and in a precarious attempt to protect his livelihood and support his family, takes on a new job in the infamously sinister mine El Chiflón del Diablo. Meanwhile, a community copes with this danger in its midst and the uncertainty it sparks in their every day lives. Performing in complete silence using minimalistic marionettes, puppetry ensemble Silencio Blanco spins a universal story of humanity in the face of hardship, highlighting those who are often forgotten behind sensational headlines.

Tickets: General Public $25, Student/Youth $10, NextLEVEL $20. Buy tickets here.

The Weeping Philosophers at Clarice Smith, Jan 27-28

The Weeping Philosophers at Clarice Smith, Jan 27-28

Second Season: The Weeping Philosophers
An evening of new work by Mark Costello and Kelly Colburn
My Life Has Been Like Water by Mark Costello
untitled homage to my twenties in new york city by Kelly Colburn
January 27 & 28, 2017

Fri, Jan 27, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, Jan 28, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sat, Jan 28, 2017 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, general admission.

My Life Has Been Like Water By Mark Costello

This multimedia project uses a live video loop that explores time as an architectural object; something to be controlled, built, expanded and repeated. Time as if it is poured like water: endless, flowing,emotional, momentous, pure.

untitled homage to my twenties in new york city By Kelly Colburn

A wild and nostalgic investigation of what it means to give up the thing you love most, this performance seeks to uncover what makes New York City exciting and enticing to the natives and the dreamers. Part documentary, part mockumentary, part dance, part theater, part film — this love letter explores the exhilaration, freedom, fear and regret of actively witnessing the death of your youth.

Tickets: Free, tickets required. Get tickets here. Tickets will be available to reserve starting at 12:00 Noon on Monday, January 23, 2017.