Category Archives: Play

God: The One-Man Show at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 19-28

God: The One-Man Show at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Feb 19-28

God: The One-Man Show

February 19 – 28, 2016
Friday and Saturday Feb 19, 20, 26 & 27 at 8pm
Sunday Matinees Feb 21 & 28 at 2pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Created by Rich Potter.

In the beginning, God said, “Let there be light,” but first! … join His Greatness, moments before The Big Bang! In this hilarious interactive comedy, Rich Potter asks the biggest question of all: if God was around before Creation, what was he doing? Counting the hairs in His beard? Twiddling His cosmic thumbs? Driving around in a golf cart, wishing there was something to do?

This “irreverent romp… whose most impressive miracle is the ability to dissolve an entire audience into laughter…” [DC Metro Theater Arts] aims to amuse open-minded believers and open-minded non-believers alike.

Greenbelt resident, Rich Potter is a producer of Washington DC’s Clown Cabaret. He co-wrote and performed in Shakespearean send up, “ Delusions of Grandeur” (2012) and silent film noir comedy, “The Heist” (2014).

Three years as a RBBB Circus clown, a coach at Center Ring Circus School, dozens of years doing variety/comedy/juggling acts at festivals and corporate settings in dozens of countries, the Vice Presidential Mansion, and an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” have led him here. Now he thinks he’s God.

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

Kreativity Open Mic at Clarice Smith, Feb 19

Kreativity Open Mic at Clarice Smith, Feb 19

Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic
Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:30pm.

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

Join the Kreators of the Kreativity Diversity Troupe for an open mic night, full of music, dance and spoken word.

Want to try out your own performance chops? Show up and sign up! Just looking for a night of entertainment from some of the most talented students in the metro area? Simply take a seat and enjoy the show.

Interested in learning more about Kreativity? Email kreativity.troupe@gmail.com and like them on Facebook!

Queen Nur’s Voices of Courage at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 18

Queen Nur’s Voices of Courage at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 18

Midweek Matinee
Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Queen Nur’s Voices of Courage: Profiles of 19th Century African American Women

Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Description: Critically acclaimed storyteller Queen Nur creates indelible portraits of seven pioneering, brave African-American women: Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Frances Harper, Cathy Williams, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell and Mary McLeod Bethune. Don’t miss this stirring historical program of stories and music.

Recommended for grades 6 and up. Curriculum Connections: Women’s History, African American History, U.S. History.

Tickets: $8/person, $6/groups of 20 or more

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s, Feb 17

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

BCT’s Murder Mystery Troupe will present the interactive Murder Mystery

Love Writes a Deadly Verse

Love is in the air at the Valentine’s Day meeting of the Poets Turntable as the group of amateur and professional writers focuses on amore, liebe – yes, LOVE! Romance abounds when each member rises, in turn, to thrill the audience with similes, metaphors, and word pictures that make even the coldest hearts beat faster.

Who could keep a dry eye as words of passion flow from the lips of the talented troupe of winsome wordsmiths? Surely, the night would be one when emotions take the front row and thoughts of ill will are left dangling in the wind. After all, the spoken word is the expression of deep-seated feelings.

But, in the middle of this memorable assemblage, one of the poets staggers to the stage and, after uttering a few cryptic words, is overtaken by death. Someone has done in a fellow Turntable member in the midst of one of the year’s most sentimental events.

Who would spoil this spectacular meeting with such a dastardly deed? And, was this an act that had been planned, or simply a crime of passion at a moment when true feelings were allowed to flow?

But in a very real sense, it’s time for poetic justice as everyone gathers to investigate the death and to find the clandestine culprit who turned Valentine’s Day into a bad rhyme.

Join us on February 17, 2016!

Troilus and Cressida at Clarice Smith, Feb 12-20

Troilus and Cressida at Clarice Smith, Feb 12-20

Troilus and Cressida
By William Shakespeare

Director Matthew R. Wilson

Fri, Feb 12, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 13, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 14, 2016 . 2:00PM
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 . 7:30PM
Thu, Feb 18, 2016 . 7:30PM
Fri, Feb 19, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 20, 2016 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 20, 2016 . 7:30PM

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

The classic love tale of Troilus and Cressida set in the Trojan war is re-envisioned to feature students cast as icons, and a homecoming atmosphere where everything is about TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT.

General Public: Regular: $25, Student/Youth: $10, NextLEVEL (Limit 2 per show): Regular: $20. Buy tickets here.