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.

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift at Clarice Smith, Dec 13-14

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift at Clarice Smith, Dec 13-14

December 13-14, 2013

Presented By:
Clarice Smith Center
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kay Theatre. Reserved Seating.

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Senior Citizen: $30
UMD Alumni Association: $30
UMD Faculty & Staff: $28
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, Dec 13, 2013 . 8:00PM
Sat, Dec 14, 2013 . 3:00PM
Sat, Dec 14, 2013 . 8:00PM

Description:

Nolan Williams Jr. has created a family-friendly holiday production that celebrates African American culture, spirituality and music of the season.

Inspired in part by his own childhood memories and by Charlemae Rollins’ groundbreaking publication, Christmas Gif’: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories, Williams’s production debuted at the Clarice Smith Center in December 2012 to enthusiastic response.

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift! features new and time-honored Christmas music, from African American spirituals and gospel to jazz and R&B, performed by soloists, a house band and the Voices of Inspiration choir. The music is woven together with selected readings from African American poets like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Laurence Dunbar and enhanced by projected images that evoke memories of the season.

A Holiday Bistro at Bowie State University, Dec 5-7

A Holiday Bistro at Bowie State University, Dec 5-7

Description: BSU Theatre presents “A Holiday Bistro,” an evening of song, dance, and theatre directed by Professor Elliott Moffitt. Music directed by Dr. Gilbert Pryor.

December 5 – 7 at 7:30pm.

Location: Main Stage 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.