Category Archives: Play

Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, Oct 25

Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, Oct 25

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents:
Experimental Performance Series #1
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 2pm and 7:30pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The Experimental Performance Series presents a collection of self-produced works from undergraduate and graduate students in theatre and dance. This performance will feature three original works:

Caminhando e Canatando, by Beatriz Moreira Leite, is about a group of friends finding the power in community and art as an oppressive “big brother” like force attempts to restrict and censor their creative freedom.

bye I’m disconnecting and hard work doesn’t work: jumping through hoops, are two sections of a larger dance work by Jamie Chen in collaboration with dancers. The first, bye I’m disconnecting is about the unacceptable and the lingering of goodbyes. The second, hard work doesn’t work: jumping through hoops, investigates cultural narratives around work and value.

Lost in the World, choreographed by Lottie Owen, is a dance piece that moves through six sections, blending styles and emotions to explore themes of growth, nostalgia, and self-discovery. Through a wide range of music, it reflects the transition from childhood to adulthood, the pull between connection and isolation, and the search for meaning in an ever-changing world. Created as a culmination of Lottie’s college experience, the piece aims to resonate with fellow students by capturing the beauty and uncertainty of growing up.

Free, no tickets. Click here.

A Compendium of Curiosities, A Night of Magic and Mystery at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 24

A Compendium of Curiosities, A Night of Magic and Mystery at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 24

The Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
A Compendium of Curiosities, A Night of Magic and Mystery
by Chris DePamphilis

One night only: October 24, 2025 at 8pm

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

For an evening of magic unlike any other, get ready for Chris DePamphilis in his all ages and captivating one-man show “Compendium of Curiosities”. With over two decades of experience, Chris has honed his craft on international stages, from the bustling streets of Tokyo and Osaka, Japan to his acclaimed three-week residency, “The Devil You Don’t” was featured in GAC’s 2023-2024 season. As a repeat headliner at Virginia’s “Magic Mic” and a featured house magician at Baltimore’s “Poe’s Magic Theatre,” Chris’s unique blend of masterful sleight-of-hand, and engaging stage presence will leave you questioning what’s possible. Prepare to be amazed and intrigued by a magician who doesn’t just perform effects but creates an unforgettable experience that will challenge your perception of reality.

Tickets: $24 General Admission, $22 Seniors/Military, $12 Student/Youth. Buy tickets here.

She Loves Me at the Clarice, Oct 18-25

She Loves Me at the Clarice, Oct 18-25

She Loves Me
Book by Joe Masteroff
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Based on a Play by Miklos Laszlo
Directed by Nick Martin

Sat, Oct. 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Sun, Oct. 19, 2025 | 2:00 PM
Wed, Oct. 22, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Thu, Oct. 23, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Fri, Oct. 24, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Sat, Oct. 25, 2025 | 2:00 PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

In this Olivier and Drama Desk Award-winning musical masterpiece, two young coworkers, who cannot stand one another, don’t know that the anonymous pen pal they have both been falling for is actually each other!

Based on the 1937 play “Parfumerie” and memorably restaged in film over the decades as “The Shop Around the Corner” (1940) and “You’ve Got Mail” (1998), this timeless musical comedy features hilarious hijinks, enchanting songs and all the twists and turns that falling in love can bring.

Tickets: $35, Student/Youth: $10. Click here.

Cycles, A Stage Play at the Bowie CPA, Oct 18 & 19

Cycles, A Stage Play at the Bowie CPA, Oct 18 & 19

Stonefield Productions presents:
Cycles – A Stage Play

Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 1:30pm and 6pm
Sunday, October 19, 2025, at 5pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

This is a stage play about a family that needs to come to terms with past family mistakes and misunderstandings. It is a brilliant Dramedy about Pain, Forgiveness, and God’s Love. It delves into the complex human experience and the impacts of past traumas and ultimately, the value of “Family.” This is a faith-based dramedy.

Tickets: $40. Click here.

Upstage Artists presents Kong’s Night Out, Oct 10-19

Upstage Artists presents Kong’s Night Out, Oct 10-19

Upstage Artists presents:
Kong’s Night Out
By Jack Neary
Directed By Rick Bergmann

Show Dates: October 10-12 and 17-19, 2025

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

The tale of what happened in the hotel room next to the hotel room where Ann was whisked out of the bed and into the Manhattan night by King Kong because there’s always a backstorv. Myron Siegel is a low-end Broadway producer who desperately wants to be high end. The trouble is, he has, for his entire career, been sabotaged by his arch-rival, who is ultra-famous for making movies about scary jungle creatures. That producer’s father and Myron’s father were also rivals back in the day and the rivalry has lived on. As the play opens, Myron has just learned that the rival producer has booked a theatre directly across from the theatre where Myron’s potential bonanza Foxy Felicia is about to open. Nobody on the Rialto knows what he’s up to, but it’s big, really, really big! Myron gathers his entourage – his sassy mother, his gangster henchman, his Hungarian backer and his wide-eyed niece straight off the bus from Buffalo – and concocts a plan to find out what the mystery show is all about. He discovers the show is about a monkey, a very large monkey. As the story unfolds, the seven doors on the set fly open and slam shut constantly, there’s mistaken identity, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness, and even a couple of romances along the way. You have all the ingredients of a crazy, fast-paced farce, where every moment is cleverly and meticulously coordinated with the events depicted in the 1933 movie.

Tickets: $11.50. For more information click here.