Category Archives: Drama

A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion at Bowie State University, Apr 14-17

A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion at Bowie State University, Apr 14-17

A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion
by Ntozake Shange

PARENTAL ADVISORY: NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN

Description: “A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion” by Ntozake Shange is more of a play than her other choreopoems! It is about a young black man, who is trying to make it professionally, while being surrounded by caricatures of Black people gone wrong. The exception is a girlfriend, who is a free and sovereign spirit. His confidence is shattered when he’s turned down for a grant that he was counting on.

Thursday, April 14, 11:00 a.m. features a talk back with the playwright
April 14, 15, & 16, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 17, 2:30 p.m.

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Main Stage, Bowie State University.

$12 general admission
$7 students, faculty and staff
$5 children

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

Enchanted April at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 8-30

Enchanted April at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 8-30

Enchanted April by Matthew Barber
April 8 – 30, 2016
Directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell
Post WWI, two British housewives plan a trip to Italy that will prove life-changing.
With Caity Brown, Jason Damaso, Carleigh Jones, Rich Koster, Tom McGrath, Pamela Northrup, Jenn Robinson, and Laurie Simonds

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

April 8 – 30
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sundays April 17 & 24 at 2:00

Ticket prices: $20 General Admission, $16 Students/Seniors/Military, $12 Youth (12 and under with adult)
Buy Tickets here.

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

PuppetCinema presents:
Salt of the Earth

Fri, Apr 8, 2016 . 8:00PM
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre, General Admission.

Audience advisories: This performance contains strong language, cigarette smoking, haze, a gunshot sound effect, loud noises and fog.

A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert; plastic tanks barrel down paper streets; and a faceless, nameless puppet emerges a rebel hero in this work by artist Zvi Sahar. Puppetry and hand-painted miniature sets combine with live filmmaking and projected video feeds, as a Lilliputian universe is created and destroyed before our eyes.

In Salt of the Earth, inspired by the bestselling Israeli novel The Road to Ein Harod by Amos Kenan, Sahar and PuppetCinema show us a dystopic world in which our protagonist — fleeing his country’s latest military coup — discovers the meaning of perseverance, survival, and ultimately, freedom.

General Public: Regular: $25, Student: $10.

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony

Fri, Apr 1, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 3, 2016 . 3:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, General Admission.

There’s something beautiful about being Black in America. This country where we are stripped of basic human rights, a sense of identity, and the freedom of individuality is what makes us the resilient people we are.

Too often are our stories ignored and too often does society dictate what we think. Now it’s time we tell our own story in our own words.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5p

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5pm

American Moor
Written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb

Tue, Mar 29, 2016 . 5:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre, General Admission.

American Moor is a 90-minute solo play written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb, examining the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare’s character, Othello. American Moor is not an “angry black man play.” Rather the diverse audiences that have experienced it echo the piece’s awareness that we see only what we want to see of one another, and that we all long to be wholly noticed and wholly embraced. It is a play about race in America, but it is also about the American theatre, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love. It is an often funny, often heartbreaking examination of the pall of privileged perspective that is ultimately so injurious to us all.

Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor who has spent the majority of his working life on stage and is readily recognized on the streets of New York for several unique character portrayals in television. American Moor is not Mr. Cobb’s first play, but it is the one that is most timely, most truthful, and the one for which he is most suited to perform, for it is a vision of race in America with the entertainment industry as microcosm. And he is now able to reflect upon a lifetime in that industry where no one who was anything like him ever wrote the rules. American Moor is his song to the unheard, unseen other.

Free, tickets required. Tickets do not guarantee admission. To minimize empty seats, we are issuing more tickets than available seats. Arrive early to claim your seat.

Get tickets here.