Category Archives: Play

Ampl!fy Open Mic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 12

Ampl!fy Open Mic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 12

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Ampl!fy Open Mic

Ampl!fy Schedule:
*January 12, 2024- The Evolution Issue
*February 9, 2024- The Black Love Issue
March 29, 2024- The Divine Feminine Issue
April 26, 2024- The Nature Issue
*May 10, 2024- Ampl!fy Showcase
Last Friday of the month, with exceptions marked with a *.

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more. Ampl!fy will take place every last Friday of the month from October 2023 to May 2024 (see exceptions* in the schedule below). Performances will take place in Joe’s theater. Ampl!fy will be promoted via Joe’s Instagram, Facebook, and weekly E-newsletter.

Pay what you wish: $5 – $15. Click here.

Freedom Stories Initiative at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 11

Freedom Stories Initiative at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 11

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Freedom Stories Initiative

Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 6:30

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Joe’s is part of the Freedom Stories Initiative with programs produced in partnership between Prince George’s Community College Center for Performing Arts, Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights. Freedom Stories discovers the histories, stories, names, and places where freedom from enslavement and oppression began in Prince George’s County.

Through dialogue facilitated by programs, Freedom Stories strives to connect legacy to present-day Prince George’s families and provide insight into the determination and resilience of Blacks living in Prince George’s County in the 1700’s. We explore history to create a more just and equitable present experience for our community and beyond.

In the culminating forum of the Freedom Stories Initiative, historians, writers, and University professors dive deep into the historical ramifications of slavery, freedom, and American history. The general public is now being exposed to the tool of freedom suits and the tactic of using the same law which enslaved families, to ‘uno reverse’, and sue that same institution to gain their freedom. What were some of the tools of resistance that the enslaved used to topple, subvert, rebel, and gain their freedom?

Join our Panelists: Omar Eaton-Martinez – Senior Vice President and other guests for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he leads the preservation, interpretation, and overall stewardship of 28 historic sites across the country to tell the full American story.

Free. Click here.

Merrily We Roll Along at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 5-20

Merrily We Roll Along at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 5-20

The Greenbelt Arts Center Presents:
Merrily We Roll Along
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by George Furth
directed by Roy Hammond
music directed by Joe Biddle
choreography by Rikki Howie Lacewell

January 5 – 20, 2024
Fri, Jan 5th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 6th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Jan 7th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Fri, Jan 12th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 13th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Jan 14th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Fri, Jan 19th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 20th, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The show tells the story of how three friends’ lives and friendship change over 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Like the play on which it is based, the show’s story moves backward in time. It begins in 1976 at the friends’ lowest moment and ends in 1957, at their youthful best.

Ticket prices: $27 General Admission, $24 Seniors/Military, $14 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

Ampl!fy Open Mic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 29

Ampl!fy Open Mic at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 29

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Ampl!fy Open Mic

Ampl!fy Schedule:
December 29, 2023- The Closure Issue
*January 12, 2024- The Evolution Issue
*February 9, 2024- The Black Love Issue
March 29, 2024- The Divine Feminine Issue
April 26, 2024- The Nature Issue
*May 10, 2024- Ampl!fy Showcase
Last Friday of the month, with exceptions marked with a *.

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Ampl!fy is a curated open mic that mimics a professional showcase. Each month’s show has a theme inspired by social issues, pop culture, and more. Ampl!fy will take place every last Friday of the month from October 2023 to May 2024 (see exceptions* in the schedule below). Performances will take place in Joe’s theater. Ampl!fy will be promoted via Joe’s Instagram, Facebook, and weekly E-newsletter.

Pay what you wish: $5 – $15. Click here.

CreativeWorks’ Cohort 3 Presents: Baited at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 21

CreativeWorks’ Cohort 3 Presents: Baited at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 21

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
CreativeWorks’ Cohort 3 Showcase
BAITED.

Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 6:30 PM

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Based on the article “Fake Online Identities and Catfishing Pose a Serious Threat,“ join us for an evening of original skits, videos, and musical performances. Featuring acting, dance, step, petry, storytelling, song, film and more.

Join Creativeworks on their final showcase! Thursday December 21st at 6:30 pm!

Join us as CreativeWorks’ Cohort 3 puts on a final show! Premiring Thursday December 21st at 6:30 pm!

¡Únase a nosotros mientras la cohorte 3 de CreativeWorks ofrece un espectáculo final! ¡Estrenando jueves 21 de diciembre a las 6:30 pm!

Free, donations accepted. Click here.