Category Archives: Play

Fearless New Play Festival at Clarice Smith, Feb 9-11

Fearless New Play Festival at Clarice Smith, Feb 9-11

Fearless New Play Festival

February 9-11, 2023
Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM
Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM
Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ Fearless New Play Festival celebrates the development of new scripts that address the urgent issues our society faces today. Join TDPS as they lead the way into the future of American theater through readings of works in development written by past and present TDPS students!

Pay what you wish. Click here.

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.

BlackLight Summit at Clarice Smith, Feb 9-11

BlackLight Summit at Clarice Smith, Feb 9-11

BlackLight Summit 2023

Thursday, February 9, 2023–Saturday, February 11, 2023
Thu, Feb 9, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:00PM
Fri, Feb 10, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:00PM
Sat, Feb 11, 2023 . 09:00AM to 10:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

We need some R&R! Not rest & relaxation, but risk and regeneration. Perhaps even rage & repair. There is no returning to what came before, so how can we fall into new possibilities, realities and ways of being? For this next season, how do we hold that “if no one goes first, how can anyone follow?” BlackLight 2023 is taking the leap into risking wrong, risking right, risking being loved and seen. In order to take these steps, how are we recovering and regenerating? We have lost so much. How can we find who we are and who we want to be? Join us for some much needed R&R.

Through three days of groundbreaking dance performances, inspiring keynote speeches, energizing movement workshops and intimate panel discussions, The Clarice’s BlackLight Summit aims to activate the unimagined possibilities in dance. It is a convening that envisions dance as a conduit to galvanize resilience and inventiveness, and in 2023 offers a combination of free and Pay What You Wish in-person events and free livestream events. Throughout the 2022–23 season, the BlackLight Summit will continue to foster community connection by facilitating a series of mentoring and professional development opportunities, conversations and performances.

Events are Free or Pay what you wish. Click here to register.

The Maggie Walker Story at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 7

The Maggie Walker Story at the Publick Playhouse, Feb 7

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse presents:
Education on Stage: The Maggie Walker Story

Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 10am & 11:15am

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse.

This compelling drama is a tribute to Maggie Walker, a great American woman from Richmond, Virginia, who helped establish and organize the first civil rights strike by African American students and became the nation’s first woman bank president. Starting her work at the order of St. Luke, a national savings group formed to pay the burial expenses of poor African Americans, Maggie Walker became a powerful force in civil rights. Through this production, students form a deeper understanding of Maggie Walker and the times in which she lived.

$8. Click here.

The Life and Legacy of Harriet Tubman at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 7

The Life and Legacy of Harriet Tubman at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 7

The Life and Legacy of Harriet Tubman
Presented by Cortenia Smith

Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 at 6:30pm

PGCMLS and Joe’s partner for Black History Month to showcase and share African American stories through art. On February 7th at 6:30 PM, join us for a one-woman show about the life, struggles, and triumphs of a former slave.

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Tickets: Free, registration encouraged. Click here.

Rotten Apple at the Bowie CPA, Feb 4 & 5

Rotten Apple at the Bowie CPA, Feb 4 & 5

BLNK presents:
Rotten Apple
by Barry Battle

Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:00pm
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 2:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

A man tormented by failed dreams is unwittingly given an opportunity to relocate his family to The Big Apple. His struggle between passion and family draws thin when a Rotten Apple enters their lives. Blinded by selfishness, will the foundation of which he’s built his home withstand or implode?

Tickets: $65-$80. Click here.