Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic at the Clarice, Oct 17

Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic at the Clarice, Oct 17

Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic Night

Friday, September 19, 2025. 7:30PM
Friday, October 17, 2025. 7:30PM
Thursday, December 11, 2025. 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

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. 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.

Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence at the Clarice, Oct 6

Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence at the Clarice, Oct 6

Clarice Presents: Suitland High School
ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence

Monday, October 6, 2025 at 7pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence creates space for teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre that will spark critical conversations and inspire meaningful action in communities across the country. Their mission is to promote playwriting as a tool for self-expression and social change, harnessing this generation’s spirit of activism and providing a platform for America’s playwrights of tomorrow to discover and develop their voices today.

On Mon, Oct 6 across the country, The Clarice will join theaters, schools and community groups for staged readings of six new 10-minute plays by teen writers confronting gun violence, selected by a committee of renowned playwrights out of plays received in a national call for submissions. The plays will be read by students from the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts at Suitland High School.

Free, tickets required. Click here.

Hot L Baltimore at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 3-18

Hot L Baltimore at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 3-18

The Greenbelt Arts Center presents:
Hot L Baltimore
by Lanford Wilson
directed by Seth Ghitelman

October 3 – 18, 2025

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Lanford Wilson’s The Hot L Baltimore introduces us to a memorable cast of characters residing in a crumbling Baltimore hotel, their lives as frayed as the lobby’s worn carpet. A young prostitute named “the Girl” plies her trade, while Mr. Morse, a bewildered old man, yearns for a visit from his estranged daughter. With the hotel’s demolition looming, they and the other residents grapple with an uncertain future. Wilson masterfully blends humor and pathos, as seen in the scene where the residents, facing eviction, share a makeshift meal, finding solace and fleeting joy in their shared predicament. This play feels especially relevant today, as America seems increasingly unwilling to address the needs of its most vulnerable citizens. The struggles of the residents of the Hot L Baltimore serve as a mirror to contemporary issues like homelessness, poverty, and the growing gap between the haves and have-nots.

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

Auditions for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 28-30

Auditions for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 28-30

Laurel Mill Playhouse announces auditions for:
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Auditions
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by Ilene Chalmers
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Auditions Sunday, September 28th, 2025, from 11am to 1pm, and
Tuesday, September 30th from 7pm to 9pm

Performances December 5 – 21, 2025
Performances Fri. at 8 PM; Sat. at 1 or 2 PM; Sat at 8 PM; Sun. at 2 PM.

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

THE STORY: A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set two years after the novel ends, MISS BENNET continues the story, only this time with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her role as dutiful middle sister in the face of her siblings’ romantic escapades. When the family gathers for Christmas at Pemberley, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match, and possibly even love.

For more information, click here.