Category Archives: Drama

Good Kids at Clarice Smith, Feb 27-Mar 7

Good Kids at Clarice Smith, Feb 27-Mar 7

Big Ten New Play Initiative: Good Kids
By Naomi Iizuka
February 28 – March 7, 2015
Director Seret Scott

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Fri, Feb 27, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 28, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sun, Mar 1, 2015 . 2:00PM
Wed, Mar 4, 2015 . 7:30PM
Thu, Mar 5, 2015 . 7:30PM
Fri, Mar 6, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Mar 7, 2015 . 2:00PM
Sat, Mar 7, 2015 . 7:30PM

Tickets: Regular: $25, Student: $10. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

Description: UMD has partnered with the Big Ten Conference schools to create a new playwriting and performance initiative. Known as the Big Ten Theatre Chairs, the group will commission, produce and publicize new plays in an effort to influence the national dialogue about women playwrights and aim to produce higher-caliber plays that are effective tools for teaching theatre students.

The program’s first commissioned work, Good Kids, is written by Naomi Iizuka, one of the nation’s most acclaimed young authors and head of playwriting at University of California, San Diego.

Good Kids explores a casual sexual encounter gone wrong, and its very public aftermath. Who is telling the truth? Whose version of the story do you believe? What does that say about you? This play responds to actual events that went on to generate a national dialogue.

Four Score and Seven Years Ago at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 26

Four Score and Seven Years Ago at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 26

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Midweek Matinee
Thursday, February 26, 2015, at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Four Score and Seven Years Ago

Lemuel has escaped slavery in Georgia and finds a new life in Gettysburg, but his ideas about the North and the South are challenged when he unexpectedly befriends Jacob, a young Confederate soldier. Understanding and empathy combat racial prejudice when these young men realize that fighting back is not the path to peaceful resolution, and that each has much to teach each other about bravery and loyalty. Gary Blackman, ArtsPower’s producer, says “By encouraging young people to see history through the eyes of characters who endured and succeeded despite facing tremendous adversity, children are able see new possibilities in their own lives.”
Curriculum Connections: American history, relationships, language arts, music
Recommended for grades 3-8
Tickets: $8; $6/groups of 20 or more

The Lost World at Clarice Smith, Feb 13-21

The Lost World at Clarice Smith, Feb 13-21

The Lost World
February 13-21, 2015
Writer and Director Jared Mezzocchi
Choreographer Adriane Fang

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Fri, Feb 13, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 14, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 15, 2015 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 18, 2015 . 7:30PM
Thu, Feb 19, 2015 . 7:30PM
Fri, Feb 20, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 21, 2015 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 21, 2015 . 7:30PM

Tickets: Regular: $25, Student: $10. Kogood Theatre, General Admission.

Description: Growing up may be tough, but try discovering that dinosaurs exist under your bed. For twins Oscar and Olivia, that’s precisely the predicament. Amid 90s Dino-mania, the duo delve beneath their mattresses and unearth a wily world where velociraptors and dilophosaurus roam free. But when the siblings let their secret run wild, they discover the real monsters to be the naysayers who mock them. Adapted from Conan O’Doyle’s eponymous silent film, The Lost World explores the ugly phases of adolescence, the treacherous task of preserving our imaginations and the primordial struggle between chaos and control.

Paul Robeson, The Play at Bowie State University, Feb 6-7

Paul Robeson, The Play at Bowie State University, February 6-7, 2015

Black History Month: Paul Robeson, the Play

Friday, February 6, 2015, at 7:00pm
Saturday, February 7, 2015, at 2:00pm

Description: This play depicts the life and struggles of actor, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.

This play will be presented by the Reid Temple Restoration Center.

Location: Fine and Performing Arts Center, Main Stage, Bowie State University

Cost: $25 General, $5 BSU Students

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

Clybourne Park at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 30-Feb 21

Clybourne Park at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 30-Feb 21

Clybourne Park
by Bruce Norris
directed by Bob Kleinberg

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

January 30 – February 21, 2015
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00
Sunday February 8 and 15 at 2:00

One house, two eras. In 1959, the all-white community of Clybourne Park anxiously deals with the first stages of integration, while in 2009, the now mostly African American neighborhood battles to hold its ground against gentrification. As each one attempts to deal with the change, they reveal the consistency of human nature.

With Jim Adams, David Colton, Ted Culler, Attey Harper, Susan Harper, Holly Trout and Ryan Willis.

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