Auditions for Disgraced by Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 12-13

Auditions for Disgraced by Greenbelt Arts Center, Nov 12-13

Disgraced
by Ayad Akhtar
directed by Bob Kleinberg

Auditions for Disgraced, directed by Bob Kleinberg, will be held at the theater on Monday November 12 and Tuesday November 13, at 7:00 PM at Greenbelt Arts Center. Callbacks on Thursday, November 15, if needed.

Monday, November 12 and Tuesday, November 13, 2018, from 7 pm to 10 pm

Performances: March 8 – 30, 2019

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar, is the taut drama of Amir Kapoor, an up and coming Muslim American lawyer who has rejected his religious background as overly rigid. Yet, at the insistence of his nephew and Islamic-inspired artist wife Emily, he chooses to attend the trial of an Imam who is charged with financially supporting the Hamas. At a dinner party that includes Amir’s coworker Jory, who is African American, and her husband, Isaac, Emily’s agent, who is Jewish, truths spill out that put Amir’s life in a new perspective. The show presents competing themes of assimilation versus exclusion, religious beliefs versus culture and tolerance versus prejudice.

For more information, click here.

Tags: Auditions, Greenbelt Arts Center, Greenbelt Maryland, Disgraced, Bob Kleinberg, Ayad Akhtar

Pirates of Penzance at Bishop McNamara High School, Nov 9-18

Pirates of Penzance at Bishop McNamara High School, Nov 9-18

Bishop McNamara High School presents
The Pirates of Penzance
by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
directed by Mary Mitchell-Donahue

November 11 – 18, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays November 9, 10, 16 & 17 at 7:30 pm
Sundays November 11 & 18 at 2:00 pm

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

This year, The BMHS Theatre Program is excited to announce the fall musical as Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance.

Set sail with this classic comedy, a hopeful farce that follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates. He disavows the pirates’ way of life and falls for the beautiful Mabel. Frederic’s melodious tones win over the heart of Major-General Stanley’s songbird daughter, Mabel, but when the Pirate King discovers that General Stanley has lied about being an orphan to keep the pirates from stealing all of his belongings and carrying off his bevy of beautiful daughters, an “ingenious paradox” may prevent the budding romance and lead to the death of “The very model of a modern Major-General.”

Tickets: $10. To purchase tickets, click here.

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Citizen: An American Lyric at Clarice Smith, Nov 9-16

Citizen: An American Lyric at Clarice Smith, Nov 9-16

Citizen: An American Lyric
By Claudia Rankine
Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs
Directed by Shirley Jo Finney (SDCF Denham Fellow)

November 9 – 16, 2018

Fri, Nov 9, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sat, Nov 10, 2018 . 2:00PM
Sat, Nov 10, 2018 . 7:30PM
Sun, Nov 11, 2018 . 2:00PM
Tue, Nov 13, 2018 . 7:30PM
Wed, Nov 14, 2018 . 7:30PM
Thu, Nov 15, 2018 . 7:30PM
Fri, Nov 16, 2018 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre

Everyday racism can come on slyly—a hasty glance or too-casual comment. Sometimes from a friend. Or a coworker. Other pointed or veiled aggressions play out in the classroom, on the street, on the national stage, in the media, at home—all the time. The cost of micro and macro aggression thrown against a white wall of racism is played out individually as Black Americans, and cannot be ignored. Adapted from Claudia Rankine’s acclaimed book of poetry, this searingly provocative meditation on race in America is not a play. It’s fast-moving, fluid theater at the speed of thought. “Moving, stunning, and formally innovative-in short, a masterwork.” ― Salon

Tickets: General public $25, Student/Youth $10. Click here.

Bowie High School presents The Wiz at the Bowie CPA, Nov 8-10

Bowie High School presents The Wiz at the Bowie CPA, Nov 8-10

Bowie High School presents
The Wiz
Directed by Regina Hanson
Production and Music Direction by Angelica Brooks
Choreographed by the BHS Dance Department
Orchestra Conducted by James Jones

November 8-10, 2018
Thursday, November 8 at 7pm
Friday, November 9 at 10am and 7pm
Saturday, November 10 at 2pm and 7pm

Presented by: Bowie High School
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

One Woman’s Magic is Another Woman’s Engineering at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 7

One Woman’s Magic is Another Woman’s Engineering at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Nov 7

One Woman’s Magic is Another Woman’s Engineering
Yoga + Interactive Soundscape w/ Yoko K. + Antoinette Solnik

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 7pm

How does it feel to create music with movement? Find out in this pay-what-you-wish event! Open to all, Yoko K. & friends will create a communal space for post-election decompression. Yoga + music by Antoinette Lipani Solnik and Yoko K., then create soothing soundscape as we move together.

What to expect from Antoinette’s class: Feeling light and having fun! Invigorating our bodies, emotions and mind! We will gently move through poses using assistive props (e.g. blocks, blankets, and straps) that help promote accessibility and safety with a focus on body awareness, stability and strength, toning lesser used muscle groups and the pelvic floor. I want you to leave class feeling alive with possibility, toward being awake to what comes up in your body, feeling good, happy and wanting to return to this beautiful yoga community we have created together.

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Pay what you wish.