Category Archives: Play

Ad Hoc Aerial presents Finally! at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 12 & 13

Ad Hoc Aerial presents Finally! at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 12 & 13

Joe’s Movement Emporium and Ad Hoc Aerial presents:
Finally!

Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 4 PM

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Join us for FINALLY! – an aerial extravaganza, bringing together artists from across the DMV! We will be featuring performances on silks, lyra, rope, trapeze, straps, and more. Witness an exciting variety of aerial and circus ideas take flight at long last.

Adults $25, Child/Senior $15. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
August 11 & 18, 2023

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland: Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Join Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel in the month of August as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions. Click here.

Life: The Diary of a Broken & Healed Sinner at the Bowie CPA, Aug 6

Life: The Diary of a Broken & Healed Sinner at the Bowie CPA, Aug 6

Life: The Diary of a Broken & Healed Sinner
Written, Directed and Produced by Elder Chanté Thompson

Sunday August 6, 2023 at 4pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

This NEW STAGE PLAY called “Life: The Diary of a Broken & Healed Sinner” is a 2022 drama play written, directed, and produced by Elder Chanté Thompson. Meet seven dynamic women who are faced by life challenges and end up incarcerated for various reasons. The truth about truth is that it lies in the power of those who experience it. The play stars Cherill Ashton, Kaneya Morgan, Nadia Palacios, Trexavier Gayles, Kimberly Council, Rachel Johnson, Lorrie Davis, and Edward Crews. The supporting cast includes Marcus Davis, Kevin Harrison, Cornelius Wyatt, Carlton Page (CJ), Sheicka Lewis, Brandon Sterling, and Trisha Rich. The play’s story is told from inside a prison by female inmates who describe their lives (past, present, and future). One is wrongfully convicted, another a murderer, another a bank robber, and another a drug addict but don’t judge a book by its cover because underneath the surface lies the truth. They are just like you and me, except they got caught. Look within to see their pain, joy, sorrow, torment, laughter, love, and gain. Follow the story of seven women who learn how to find themselves, find their future, and find God.

Tickets: $35 and $40. Click here.

The Emergency Room at the Bowie CPA, Aug 5

The Emergency Room at the Bowie CPA, Aug 5

The Food Lord Production presents:
The Emergency Room
directed by Antonio Ford

August 5, 2023
Saturday, August 5 at 2:00pm
Saturday, August 5 at 6:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

The Emergency Room is a comedy based off the experiences that people are going through with food-related diseases. The play offers, in great detail, foods that remedy many of our health problems. This play is sheer edutainment, written and directed by Antonio Ford, and if you are not careful you might just learn something!

Tickets: $30 to $45. Click here.

Descendants: The Musical at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Aug 4-20

Descendants: The Musical at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Aug 4-20

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents:
Disney’s Descendants: The Musical
Director – Michael Hartsfield
Musically Director – Mimi Kuhn McGinniss
Produced by Maureen Rogers

August 4 – 20, 2023
Friday August 4 at 8pm
Saturday August 5 at 8pm
Sunday August 6 at 2pm
Friday August 11 at 8pm
Saturday August 12 at 8pm
Sunday August 13 at 2pm
Friday August 18 at 8pm
Saturday August 19 at 8pm
Sunday August 20 at 2pm

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Burtonsville Players DBA as Laurel Mill Playhouse, located at 508 Main Street, Laurel MD is happy to present Disney’s Descendants: The Musical

Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films!

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good? – MTI

Ticket prices: $23 general, $15 students/military/seniors

Buy tickets here.

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.