Category Archives: Play

Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 7-8

Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 7-8

Maryland Opera Studio presents Opera Scene Study

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Opera Scene Study
May 7, 8, 2015 . Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE

After a year of taking apart their craft and sculpting it from the ground up, the final class project for out first-year students pairs them in operatic scenes from a wide variety of repertory and featuring all aspects of their training. Accompanied only by piano and minimal props, these performances give our young artists a chance to shine in the purest of forms.

Our Earth, What a Gas! at the Publick Playhouse, May 6

Our Earth, What a Gas! at the Publick Playhouse, May 6

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Midweek Matinee
Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at 10:15 am & 12 noon
Our Earth, What a Gas!

The Grand Falloons use their former career with the Big Apple Circus to examine the bubble of our atmosphere, what we need to survive in it, and the carbon/oxygen/hydrogen exchange between plant and animal kingdoms. Circus skills, Vaudeville routines, and song and dance numbers engage the audience in how litter, pollution, and other wasted resources threaten life. The program represents a collaboration with several museums and other non-profit organizations to produce an entertaining program based on earth science curriculum standards for public schools. Dishing up intriguing facts with laughter and fun, the Grand Falloons help start their young audiences on a life-long journey of awareness of our limited resources and the part everyone plays in keeping nature’s balance.
Curriculum Connections: earth science, health, biology, recycling, theatre arts
Recommended for grade K-6 Tickets: $8; $6/groups of 20 or more

Music, Movement, Mind and Score at Clarice Smith, May 3

Music, Movement, Mind and Score at Clarice Smith, May 3

UMD Symphony Orchestra
Maryland Opera Studio
Music, Movement, Mind and Score
Sunday, May 3, 2015 . 8PM

Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yanez

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Taught by James Ross and Liz Lerman, the School of Music’s first course on improvisation, collaboration, and art-making culminates on stage with a conductorless performance that integrates music and movement.

The Maryland Opera Studio joins UMSO on the second half of the concert to perform highlights from their spring production of Rossini’s one-act opera, L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity makes a thief).

Free.

The Human Capacity at Clarice Smith, May 2-9

The Human Capacity at Clarice Smith, May 2-9

The Human Capacity
By Jennifer Barclay
May 2-9, 2015
Director Michael Dove

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Sat, May 2, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sun, May 3, 2015 . 2:00PM
Sun, May 3, 2015 . 7:30PM
Wed, May 6, 2015 . 7:30PM
Thu, May 7, 2015 . 7:30PM
Fri, May 8, 2015 . 7:30PM
Sat, May 9, 2015 . 2:00PM
Sat, May 9, 2015 . 7:30PM

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

Description: Set in East Berlin, both before and after the fall of the Wall, The Human Capacity follows the journey of a Stasi officer as he seeks redemption from the woman whose life he shattered. Both torturer and victim find themselves caught in a struggle to reconcile the horrors of their past with their hopes for the future.

The Human Capacity is a searing look into a society and a family in turmoil, and an exploration of the human capacity for cruelty, perseverance and forgiveness.

Suite Surrender by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, May 1-16

Suite Surrender by Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, May 1-16

Suite Surrender, by Michael McKeever
Directed by John J. Degnan

Prince George’s Little Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances are three weekends, May 1 – May 16, 2015
Friday 5/1/15 at 8 pm
Saturday 5/2/15 at 8 pm
Sunday 5/3/15 at 2 pm
Friday 5/8/15 at 8 pm
Saturday 5/9/15 at 8 pm
Sunday 5/10/15 at 2 pm
Friday 5/15/15 at 8 pm
Saturday 5/16/15 at 2 pm

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Seniors/18 & Under, $13 for Groups of 10+
PGLT Box Office: 301.937.PGLT (7458)

It’s 1942 and the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel is under siege as two of Hollywood’s biggest divas vie for the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and one pampered little lap dog round out this fall-down-laughing riot of a comedy. An all-out love note to those wonderful farces of the 1930s and 1940s.