Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation at the Bowie CPA, May 5

Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation at the Bowie CPA, May 5

Give Your Parents a Standing Ovation
The Stage Play

Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Journey with a family thrust into transition when their Matriarch becomes ill. Will they stand strong or will the reality of caring for their Mother tear them apart? The writers wrote the stage play to inspire, bring awareness to, and decrease the stigmatization to the disease Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The expected audience for this stage play is families, the elderly, churches, senior centers, the community, and caregivers of all ages.

Tickets: $25 General Admission, $18 Seniors 65+ with ID. For tickets click here.

Weird Romance at MAD, May 4-19

Weird Romance at MAD, May 4-19

Goddard’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) presents:

Weird Romance
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by David Spencer
Book by Alan Brennert

Directed by Randy Barth
Music Direction by Bob Hanisch
Choreographed by Betsy Edwards
Produced by Eliot Malumuth

Warning: some adult situations and language

May 4 – 19, 2018

Location: Barney & Bea (GEWA) Recreation Center, Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

From the composer of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Little Shop of Horrors comes MAD’s spring musical, Weird Romance! The musical is composed of two one-act stories set in the near future, where speculative science fiction is used to explore what drives the emotion of love.

Tickets: $20 General Admission; $2 discount on-line for opening weekend and Mother’s Day; $25 at the door. For tickets click here.

The Speed Twins at Venus Theatre, May 3-27

The Speed Twins at Venus Theatre, May 3-27

THE SPEED TWINS
by Maureen Chadwick
directed by Deborah Randall

May 3 – 27, 2018
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

The Speed Twins unleashes an explosive and darkly comic conflict of desires and challenges us all to ask fundamental questions about identity. Three older women meet as strangers in a spectral version of the Gateways, the lesbian nightclub featured in the film “The Killing of Sister George”: Queenie is in complete denial of her sexuality, Ollie thinks she’s died and gone to Dyke Heaven, and Shirley looks as if she hasn’t aged a day since she lost the love of her life back in 1962. As the drink flows, uncomfortable truths are revealed as Queenie struggles to justify her life’s choices. Torn between temptation and fear, will she go to her grave with her conventional moral certainties intact? Or will she have the courage to re-write history and finally be true to her heart? The Speed Twins unleashes an explosive and darkly comic conflict of desires and challenges us all to ask fundamental questions about identity.

Tickets are $40 General Admission, $20 for Friend of Venus, $15 for Student or Senior. Buy tickets here.

Maryland Opera Studio presents Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 3-4

Maryland Opera Studio presents Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 3-4

MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO: Opera Scene Study

Thu, May 3, 2018 . 7:30PM
Fri, May 4, 2018 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Gildenhorn Recital Hall

After a year of deconstructing their craft and sculpting it from the ground up, Maryland Opera Studio first-year students are paired in operatic scenes from a wide variety of repertory. Accompanied only by piano and minimal props, these performances give our young artists a chance to shine in the purest of forms.

Tickets: Free, no ticket required

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Teddy Bear’s Picnic at the Publick Playhouse, May 3

Teddy Bear’s Picnic at the Publick Playhouse, May 3

Bob Brown’s Puppets presents:
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Tiny Tot Thursdays

Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 9:30 am & 11:15 am

Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

Mother Bear and Baby Bear set out on a picnic and meet all kinds of unexpected friends and foes. Crazy dancing frogs Fred and Ginger, Quincy the Caterpillar (who meets himself coming and going), and Artie the Ant (who almost ruins the picnic) are just a few of the delightful puppet pals in this enchanting show.

Tickets: $5/person.