Category Archives: Play

Happenstance presents PREPOSTEROUS! A Theatrical Clown Circus at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jun 13, In Person

Happenstance presents PREPOSTEROUS! A Theatrical Clown Circus at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jun 13, In Person

On Stage at Joe’s presents Happenstance Theater in:
PREPOSTEROUS! A Theatrical Clown Circus

Saturday Jun 13, 2021, at 4 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

A performance by Happenstance Theater
PREPOSTEROUS! A Theatrical Clown Circus

Masks are required for this in-person event.

A SOPHISTICATED, FAMILY-FRIENDLY, POCKET-SIZED THEATRICAL CLOWN CIRCUS!

These charming VINTAGE clowns play circus ANIMALS, sing as a HUMAN CALLIOPE, do the classic circus MIRROR ROUTINE, invent a number of RIDICULOUS “entrées”, perform LIVE MUSIC, and execute a very satisfying SLOW MOTION number involving a PIE!

PREPOSTEROUS! premiered in the summer of 2017 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has been performed at The National Theater as part of their Saturday Morning family series. Now it is ready to hit the road! Just like the real circus.

Tickets $20 General Admission; $10 Seniors, Veterans, Under 16. Click here.

Owen Wingrave at Clarice Smith, Jun 6-8, Online and In-person

Owen Wingrave at Clarice Smith, Jun 6-8, Online and In-person

NOI Philharmonic & Maryland Opera Studio: Owen Wingrave – VIRTUAL
Sunday, June 6 & Tuesday, June 8, 2021 . 7PM EDT

Sun, Jun 6, 2021 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM
Tue, Jun 8, 2021 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM

Craig Kier, conductor
Amanda Consol, director
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic
Maryland Opera Studio Series:
2021 National Orchestral Institute + Festival

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Online

Juxtaposing his pacifist beliefs against his family’s military traditions, a young man finds himself leaving his training to confront his family in Benjamin Britten’s hauntingly intense opera Owen Wingrave. As Wingrave seeks to prove his courage, he unknowingly veers toward a collision against fate, leading to unexpected consequences.

Under the direction of Craig Kier, the Maryland Opera Studio is dedicated to the future of opera. Preparing the next generation of great singers and offering performances ranging from classic repertoire to provocative new works, it is building contemporary audiences for opera and advancing the art that sustains them.

This performance is part of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F). A program of the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, NOI+F trains aspiring orchestral musicians, composers, conductors and arts administrators from across the country in a month of dynamic music-making and professional exploration at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Musicians are chosen through a rigorous, cross-country audition process. Every year, these young artists present passionate and awe-inspiring performances of adventuresome repertoire at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Program:
Owen Wingrave, Op. 85
Benjamin Britten, composer
Myfanwy Piper, librettist
Performed in English with subtitles.

Tickets: $15 per household virtual. Click here.

Tickets: $25 per person in-person. Click here.

Joe featuring Rebecca Wahls at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 28, In Person

Joe featuring Rebecca Wahls at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 28, In Person

On Stage at Joe’s presents
Joe featuring Rebecca Wahls

Friday May 28, 2021, at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Joe is an exploration of primary sources left by my grandfather, Joseph Badi: audio recordings, physical objects, and photographs. Born in 1910 in Kuty, Poland, Joe lived through both World Wars, and survived the Holocaust, eventually migrating to Israel and finally New York City.

Masks are required for this in-person event.

Tickets $20 General Admission; $10 Seniors, Veterans, Under 16. Click here.

Lady Windermere’s Fan by MAD, May 22, Online

Lady Windermere’s Fan by MAD, May 22, Online

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club presents:
An online public reading of:
Lady Windermere’s Fan
By Oscar Wilde
Directed by Randy Barth
Produced by Jon Gardner

May 22, 2021, 8pm, online

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater, online.

MAD is forming a play-reading group, which will rehearse several times and then perform public readings of scripts. The goal of the group is to have fun participating.

Performance will be live online. Click here.

Cicada Saturday at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 22, In Person

Cicada Saturday at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 22, In Person

On Stage at Joe’s presents
Cicada Saturday: Two events.

Cicadas! Wow What a Bug!
Stories, Songs and Mores: Family Fun
Saturday May 22, 2021, at 3 pm

A Salute to the Cicada
A Variety Show, Adults Only!
Saturday May 22, 2021, at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Cicadas! Wow What a Bug! Kay Taub is an entomologist, or “bug scientist.” She will share the unique biological story of the cicada. Storytelling, dance, and music will also be presented by local artists. If fate allows, a larger-than-life cicada might join in the fun!

A Salute to the Cicadas: A Variety Show to Revere and Razz Brood X is an evening dedicated to our prodigal neighbors who drop by for a visit every 17 years. Whether you believe as the ancient Greeks that these singing, reproductive-focused insects are gifts from the Muses or wish they’d go back into the holes they crawled out of, this event is for you! Joe’s has invited area performing artists both beloved and new to pay a tongue-in-cheek homage to one of the world’s oldest bugs. Recommended for ages 16+.

Masks are required for this in-person event.

Tickets $20 General Admission; $10 Seniors, Veterans, Under 16. Click here.