Category Archives: Play

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

The Waiting Room at Clarice Smith, Feb 14-22

by Lisa Loomer

February 14-22, 2014

Director Kris Messer

Presented By:
University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kogood Theatre. General Admission.

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Fri, Feb 14, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 15, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sun, Feb 16, 2014 . 2:00PM
Wed, Feb 19, 2014 . 7:30PM
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 . 7:30PM
Fri, Feb 21, 2014 . 7:30PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 2:00PM
Sat, Feb 22, 2014 . 7:30PM

Description:

Lisa Loomer’s 1994 play is a dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty — and its cost. Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor’s waiting room.

Forgiveness From Heaven is an 18th-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. Victoria is a 19th-century English woman suffering from what is commonly known as “hysteria.” Then there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts.

Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination in this wild ride through medical and sexual politics.

The playwright — who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl, Interrupted — often deals with the experiences of Latinos and Hispanic Americans and with various aspects of contemporary family life. For her work on The Waiting Room, she won the 1994 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award and the 1995 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award.

Maryland Opera Studio presents New Works at Clarice Smith, Feb 14

Maryland Opera Studio presents New Works at Clarice Smith, Feb 14

Friday, February 14, 2014, 7:30pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Gildenhorn Recital Hall.

Free admission, no tickets required.

Description: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the allure and passion of opera. On this concert, first-year Maryland Opera Studio students perform a partially-staged – but fully dramatic – new work for opera. In Love/Hate by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis, a couple at a bus stop lives through all the reasons they have for never meeting. Music makes strange bedfellows as two diametrically opposed Supreme Court Justices express their opinions through song in Scalia/Ginsburg.

Ten-Minute Play Festival at Bowie State University, Feb 13-14

Ten-Minute Play Festival at Bowie State University, Feb 13-14

First Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival

February 13, 2014 – February 14, 2014 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Description: The theatre program invites you to the First Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival where original, student-written plays will be presented in 10-minute time slots.

Location: Black Box Theatre, Fine and Performing Arts Center, Bowie State University.

Cost: $3 for children; $5 for BSU faculty, staff, students and senior citizens; $10 general admission

Box office opens 1 hour before performances. Call 301-860-3717 for ticket information.

Aloniz improvisation by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Feb 13

Aloniz improvisation by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Feb 13

ALONIZ!

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.

ALONIZ! is Roosevelt’s only improv team. Improv is like acting but without a script. The team makes up scenes as they go along! They practice hard to bring you good improv. The team has 10 members: Julia, Mitchell, John M, John A, Danny, Devin, Teresa, Julie, and 2 co-captains, Logan and Alyssa. The team puts on 3 shows a year: October 11th, February 13th, and March 25th.

For Colored Folks: An Adaptation at Clarice Smith, Feb 1-2

For Colored Folks: An Adaptation at Clarice Smith, Feb 1-2

Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:00pm
Saturday, February 1, 2014, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 2, 2014, 3:00pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Dance Theatre.

Free admission, no tickets required.

Description: For Colored Folks: An Adaptation pays homage to innovative African American writers. Incorporating monologues, movement, dialogue, and music, the end result is a cohesive piece that reveals the similarities between people, rather than romanticizing what makes us different.

“for colored folks…” is a hybrid-performance of two choreopoems: Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf and Keith Antar Mason’s for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much.

The end result is a cohesive choreopoem that explores love, loss, happiness, pain, and self-worth.