Life Interrupted at the Bowie CPA, May 4 & 5

Life Interrupted at the Bowie CPA, May 4 & 5

Connecting Lives Productions Presents:
Life Interrupted Stage Play
by Elder Chanté Thompson

Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 4pm
Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 4pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Life Interrupted is a 2023 drama stage play written, directed, and produced by Elder Chanté Thompson. During Mental Health Awareness Month, we will shed light on mental health challenges and overcoming those obstacles. Meet seven patients who learn how to heal spiritually while dealing with their mental health obstacles.

This play’s story is told from inside a mental health institution by mental health patients who describe their pain and struggle. One suffers from PTSD, another is bipolar, another has schizophrenia, another has an eating disorder, another has dissociative disorder, and another has depression. In a world where mental health challenges are on the rise, meet this phenomenal cast as they deliver an exceptional dramatic performance and help our community understand, work through, and recover from this nationwide crisis.

The play stars Kaneya Morgan, Marcus Davis, Lorrie Davis, Nick Gamble, Chanale Taylor, Nadia Palacios, Kevin (CJ) Harrison, Cornelius Wyatt, Edward Crews, Robin Willingham, Octavia Latrice, Howard Lee, Maurice Lee, Anissa Stewart, Freddie Simmons, Rachel Johnson, and Khloe’ Holbert.

Tickets: $35 to $45. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, May 3-10 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, May 3-10 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
May 3 & 10, 2024, Penny Penguin and Connor Cow

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland.

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Listen to animal puppets as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions, $13 non-resident. Click here.

Maryland Opera Studio Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 2 & 3

Maryland Opera Studio Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 2 & 3

Maryland Opera Studio presents:
Opera Scene Study

May 2 & 3, 2024 • 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

First-year Maryland Opera Studio students demonstrate their talent in this showcase featuring scenes from a wide operatic repertory. To keep the focus on beautiful, pure sounds and vivid acting, the performance is accompanied only by piano and minimal props. Opera Scene Study Part 2 will take place on May 3 at 7:30 p.m.

The Maryland Opera Studio is dedicated to the future of opera. Preparing the next generation of great singers and offering performances ranging from classic repertoire to provocative new works, it is building contemporary audiences for opera and advancing the art form to sustain those audiences.

Free, no tickets required

The Improv Group Performance at Prince George’s Community College, Apr 30

The Improv Group Performance at Prince George’s Community College, Apr 30

The Improv Group Performance

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM

Location: Prince George’s Community College.

Center for Performing Arts, 301 Largo Road Largo, MD 20774

This awesome, fast-paced improv show features the PGCC Improv Group using your suggestions as fuel.

Our performers will invent custom-made scenes that will make you laugh, cry, or scratch your head in confusion. At the very least, we guarantee to be entertaining.

Free performance, reserve tickets here.

Maryland Day at Clarice Smith, Apr 27

Maryland Day at Clarice Smith, Apr 27

Maryland Day 2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024 • 10AM-4PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Explore the creativity of Terps and the local community on Maryland Day! This annual campus-wide open house features artistic and creative performances, experiences and activities at The Clarice, and across the University of Maryland campus. Bring your family and your friends for a day of fun and frolic! Our schedule will be announced in Spring 2024!

Free, no tickets required. Click here.