Category Archives: Play

Schoolhouse Rock Live! at the Publick Playhouse, Apr 8 & 9

Schoolhouse Rock Live! at the Publick Playhouse, Apr 8 & 9

Friday, April 8, 2016; 10:15 am & 12 noon Saturday, April 9, 2 pm
Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Description: Tom, a school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such beloved Schoolhouse Rock songs as “Just A Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.” Based on the Emmy-award winning series from the 1970s, Schoolhouse Rock Live! is lighting up stages everywhere bringing its infectious zest to a cross-generational audience.

Recommended for grades K-8. Curriculum Connections: Language Arts, History, Science, Math.

Tickets: Friday performance: $8/person, $6/groups of 20 or more; Saturday performance: $10/person

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1-17

I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 1 – 17

I Hate Hamlet
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Ilene Chalmers
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there’s one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore’s ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment.

Performances run weekends from Friday April 1, 2016 through Sunday April 17, 2016 with Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission. Admission for students (12 and under), active duty military and seniors (65 and over) is $15. Tickets can be purchased by clicking the link below. For further information, please call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony

Fri, Apr 1, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 3, 2016 . 3:00PM

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

There’s something beautiful about being Black in America. This country where we are stripped of basic human rights, a sense of identity, and the freedom of individuality is what makes us the resilient people we are.

Too often are our stories ignored and too often does society dictate what we think. Now it’s time we tell our own story in our own words.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5p

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5pm

American Moor
Written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb

Tue, Mar 29, 2016 . 5:00PM

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

American Moor is a 90-minute solo play written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb, examining the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare’s character, Othello. American Moor is not an “angry black man play.” Rather the diverse audiences that have experienced it echo the piece’s awareness that we see only what we want to see of one another, and that we all long to be wholly noticed and wholly embraced. It is a play about race in America, but it is also about the American theatre, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love. It is an often funny, often heartbreaking examination of the pall of privileged perspective that is ultimately so injurious to us all.

Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor who has spent the majority of his working life on stage and is readily recognized on the streets of New York for several unique character portrayals in television. American Moor is not Mr. Cobb’s first play, but it is the one that is most timely, most truthful, and the one for which he is most suited to perform, for it is a vision of race in America with the entertainment industry as microcosm. And he is now able to reflect upon a lifetime in that industry where no one who was anything like him ever wrote the rules. American Moor is his song to the unheard, unseen other.

Free, tickets required. Tickets do not guarantee admission. To minimize empty seats, we are issuing more tickets than available seats. Arrive early to claim your seat.

Get tickets here.

Yoko K. at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 25

Yoko K. at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mar 25

Yoko K.

Friday, March 25, 2016 at 7:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Yoko K. is an electronic musician, composer, and producer, a two-time winner of Wammie’s “Electronica Artist,” and a past artist-in-residence at Strathmore (2011-2012). Yoko’s ensemble will perform live electronic music and video art to create an immersive multimedia experience – a space conducive for participants to imagine something out of the ordinary. Her aim for the NextLOOK residency is to examine how post-apocalyptic representations of the future shape our sense of the present, and to playfully explore an alternative: “What would the most optimistic future look like?” Audience members will be invited to participate in the showing as visitors from the fictional 22nd century. Her ensemble will also engage the audience through post-performance discussion, as well as an online forum to understand the non-immediate impact of the work.

Free, or pay what you want.