Category Archives: Drama

More than 90 Miles from Home and Snake Telegram at Clarice Smith, Nov 20-22

More than 90 Miles from Home and Snake Telegram at Clarice Smith, Nov 20-22

More than 90 Miles from Home and Snake Telegram

Fri, Nov 20, 2015. 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 22, 2015. 3:00PM
Sun, Nov 22, 2015. 7:00PM

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

More than 90 Miles from Home
by Colette Krogol

More than 90 Miles from home explores Colette Krogol’s Cuban-American identity and the oral stories told to her throughout her life by her maternal Cuban family. Through movement, poetry and film, Colette attempts to piece together reality and dream by coming to terms with the truth that the Cuba she knows from her families stories exists vividly but solely in her mind. She can deeply hear, taste, feel, smell, and be with her Cuba but only for as long as each story goes. This work weaves together personal moments of history, loss, mystery, anger, joy and family while reorienting the viewer’s cinematic experience by encouraging them to investigate their surroundings and take on new perspectives.

“To me it isn’t just 90 miles when you can never go back home.” – Mom

Snake Telegram
by Sarah Beth Oppenheim

Oppenheim performs a soft and vicious solo evening which unravels from maneuvered folds into an operetta of savage and coarse dimensions. It is both mystery and surprise that arcs from coil to cry as its plucked and tarnished movements dance to cool, cool jazz.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.

Series: 2015-2016 TDPS Second Season

The Ghost of Strasburg at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 20-21

The Ghost of Strasburg at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 20-21

The Ghost of Strasburg
By Carol Lee Campbell

Friday, November 20, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 3:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Circa 1929 in Central Virginia, where the ladies of the Strasburg Hotel offer more than a good night’s rest — They provide sanctuary to lost souls. But when the wife of a policeman seeks refuge from her husband, the hotel proves anything but idyllic. From critically-acclaimed playwright Carol Lee Campbell (The Goddess Diaries) comes a new story that blends history with a touch of magic in a genre-defying drama about our dalliances with eternity.

Tickets: $15.

The Fourth of April at Bowie State University, Nov 19-22

The Fourth of April at Bowie State University, Nov 19-22

The Fourth of April

Description: Written to commemorate Bowie State University’s 150th anniversary, the play is set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. It concerns the activities of Bowie State College students in the 1967-68 academic year when they confronted conditions on campus and power at the highest level of state government.

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 at 7:30pm
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 at 11am and 7:30pm
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 at 7:30pm
Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 at 2:30pm

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

This is Our Youth at Clarice Smith, Nov 15

This is Our Youth at Clarice Smith, Nov 15

The Weekday Players
This Is Our Youth
Sunday, November 15, 2015. 2PM & 7PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, Free Admission, no tickets required.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: This performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.

The Weekday Players are proud to present “This is Our Youth” by Kenneth Lonergan for this fall.

A hit off-Broadway in 1996 and in a a Broadway revival in 2014, This is Our Youth follows three young adults in the Upper West Side of Manhattan over the course of one evening. Dennis Ziegler’s friend Warren Straub has been kicked out of his house, and has also stolen $15,000 from his father. Dennis and another friend, Jessica, have their own agendas and plans for the money, which ultimately ties the characters together as the play explores themes of materialism, adolescence, and maturity.

The Weekday Players are excited to present this timely show, as organized, acted, and produced by University of Maryland students. The show is free to the general public.

Any Given Monday at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 6-22

Any Given Monday at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 6-22

Any Given Monday by Bruce Graham
November 6-22
Directed by Ann Lowe-Barrett

November 6-22
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sundays at 2:00

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Lenny is a great guy: a good teacher, an excellent father, and a loving husband. So when his wife leaves him for a smooth-talking lothario who builds Walmarts, his life is shattered. While he consoles himself with watching his favorite movie, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, his best friend Mick takes matters into his own hands. Now Lenny must decide what he will stand up for and who he will stand up to. How far is too far to get back to happily-ever-after?

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