Category Archives: Musical

Hip Hop Anansi at the Clarice, Apr 18-26

Hip Hop Anansi at the Clarice, Apr 18-26

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Hip Hop Anansi
by Eisa Davis
directed by Paige Hernandez

April 18–26, 2025
Fri, Apr 18, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 1:00PM: Includes ASL interpretation.
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 4:00PM
Fri, Apr 25, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes an audio description.
Sat, Apr 26, 2025 . 11:00AM
The April 26 performance is free and not ticketed as part of Maryland Day 2025.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The story of Anansi and his trickster family is put into a sleek hip hop context for Hip Hop Anansi, a modern, all-ages adaptation of a traditional Ashanti folktale. Anansi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award for Tricksterism and is not above outwitting his own family to win it. But his rhyming, break dancing, graffiti-ing children are ready to claim the prize in their own right. Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, directs this new vision of a classic African folk tale as penned by the acclaimed actress, playwright and singer-songwriter Eisa Davis.

Tickets: Tickets: $25 Public, $10 Students, click here.

Tick, Tick… Boom! at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21-Apr 12

Tick, Tick… Boom! at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Mar 21-Apr 12

Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
Tick, Tick… Boom! an autobiographical musical
by Jonathan Larson
Directed by Margo McCready

March 21 – April 12, 2025
Fri. & Sat. at 8pm; Sun. at 2pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Jon is an aspiring musical composer struggling to find success in the industry approaching his 30th birthday. He contemplates whether he should continue to struggle doing what he loves or follow the paths of his girlfriend Susan, choosing family as a means of stability, or his best friend Michael, changing careers to find stability. This autobiography of Jonathan Larson, best known for creating “Rent”, was made into a movie in 2021

Ticket prices: $27 General Admission, $25 Seniors/Military, $15 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

2025 Greenbelt Youth Musical
Secret Circus
written and directed by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 1, 2024, 7 pm
Sunday, March 2, 2024, 3 pm
Saturday, March 8, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

As the tide of fascism rises in 1930’s Europe, a traveling circus races against time to smuggle a disabled girl named Anya to safety. With each glittering performance, the border draws nearer — and the danger grows.

Tickets: $5; advance sales (highly recommended) at (301) 397-2208, starting February 4

Bowie High School presents Little Shop of Horrors at the Bowie CPA, Feb 28-Mar 2

Bowie High School presents Little Shop of Horrors at the Bowie CPA, Feb 28-Mar 2

Bulldog Theatre at Bowie High School presents
Little Shop of Horrors
Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken

February 28 – March 2, 2025
Friday, February 28 at 7pm
Saturday, March 1 at 7pm
Sunday, March 2 at 2pm

Presented by: Bowie High School
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Clarice, Feb 21-28

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Clarice, Feb 21-28

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
by Ntozake Shange
directed by Ama Law and Fatima Quander

February 21–28, 2025
Fri, Feb 21, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 23, 2025 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 26, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes an audio description.
Thu, Feb 27, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes ASL interpretation.
Fri, Feb 28, 2025 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Ntozake Shange’s highly influential 1976 choreopoem for colored girls… might well be the most performed and important piece of theater created expressly by and for Black women in the history of the United States. The work has been adapted for both film and television and can boast a Tony-nominated Broadway revival as recently as 2022. UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies faculty members Ama Law and Fatima Quander direct a loving rendition of Shange’s masterpiece that proves its timelessness.

Tickets: $25 Public, $10 Students, click here.