Category Archives: School

The Mouse That Roared at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 17-19

The Mouse That Roared at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 17-19

Bishop McNamara High School presents
The Mouse That Roared
Adapted by CHRISTOHER SERGEL
From the book by LEONARD WIBBERLEY

March 17 – 19, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2023 – 2:00 PM

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

The Mouse That Roared is a political farce set in the mythical country of Grand Fenwick. This tiny country is facing bankruptcy, so their unique solution is to declare war on The United States of America in the hopes of receiving economic aid after they lose the war. Complications arise when the Grand Fenwick attack on the United States unexpectedly succeeds! Grand Fenwick wins the war, and the terms for peace must be negotiated by their young ruler. Although the novel on which the play is based was originally written during the Cold War, modern audiences will recognize elements of current events in this comedy.

Tickets are $10, and can be purchased here.

Please note COVID protocols in place.

For more information click here.

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.

Kreativity Open Mic Night at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Kreativity Open Mic Night at Clarice Smith, Feb 3 & Mar 31

Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic

Fri, Feb 3, 2023 . 7:30PM
Fri, Mar 31, 2023 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Free, no tickets required. Online.

Join the Kreators of the Kreativity Diversity Troupe for an open mic night, full of music, dance and spoken word.

Interested in learning more about Kreativity? Email kreativity.troupe@gmail.com and like them on Facebook!

Free, no tickets required. Online, here

Flyin’ West at Bowie State University, Nov 17-19

Flyin’ West at Bowie State University, Nov 17-19, In Person

Bowie State University presents:
Flyin’ West
by Pearl Cleage

November 17-19, 2022
November 17, 2022 at 7:30pm
November 18, 2022 at 7:30pm
November 19, 2022 at 2:30pm & 7:30pm

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, Bowie State University, in person.

Following an award-winning season for BSU Theatre, Flyin’ West takes audiences back to the days of the Homestead Act and the founding of a Black community in Nicodemus, Kansas – a place of immense possibility, steered by the vision and fortitude of the Black female pioneers. Local director Angelisa Gillyard (Constellation Theatre, 1st Stage) joins with BSU senior stage management team Amari Chambers (Class 2023) and Malaysha Saboleh (Class 2023) to celebrate the resilience of ancestors and the strength of sisterhood as they confronted racism and encroaching opportunists who sought to undo the paradise they dreamed could be their future and their legacy.

Tickets: $12, click here.

Contact: Elena Velasco, Email: evelasco@bowiestate.edu, Phone: 3018603750