Maryland Opera Studio presents Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 4 & 5

Maryland Opera Studio presents Opera Scene Study at Clarice Smith, May 4 & 5

Maryland Opera Studio presents:
Opera Scene Study
Maryland Opera Studio

Part 1: Thursday, May 4, 2023 . 7:30PM
Part 2: Friday May 5, 2023 . 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

First-year Maryland Opera Studio (MOS) students demonstrate their talent in this showcase featuring duet 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.

MOS is dedicated to the future of opera. Preparing the next generation of great singers and offering performances ranging from the classic repertoire to provocative new works, MOS is building audiences and advancing the art that sustains them.

Tickets: Free, no tickets required. Click here.

Students Playwriting and Acting Showcase at Prince George’s Community College, May 4

Students Playwriting and Acting Showcase at Prince George’s Community College, May 4

Prince George’s Community College presents:
Students Playwriting and Acting Showcase

Thursday, May 04, 2023 at 11:00 AM

Location: Prince George’s Community College, In Person.

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

An end-of-the-semester event where theatre students perform small vignettes to demonstrate their skills.

Tickets: Free, tickets required, click here.

Trekking Mexico at the Bowie CPA, May 3

Trekking Mexico at the Bowie CPA, May 3

Arts on Stage presents:
Mexico Beyond Mariachi’s Trekking Mexico

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 10:15AM and 12:00 noon

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Mexico Beyond Mariachi’s Trekking Mexico show takes audiences on a 600-year journey that begins in the fascinating world of Mesoamerican civilization. Continuing chronologically, we illustrate through music, dance, and storytelling how time, geography, climate, and foreign influences have affected folk traditions to the present day.

Tickets: $9. Click here.

Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
The Absence of a Cello
by Ira Wallach
directed by Ilene Chalmers

May 2 & 3, 2023

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

As Martin Gottfried describes: “It is about a physicist who needs money so badly he turns to the $60,000-a-year job offered by a big corporation. He wants the job, but does the company want him? Mr. Personnel is sent to find out. What seems to be starting out as a shopworn target—individuality versus conformity—turns out to be an ingeniously conceived comical discussion of honesty and truth. After being coached by a gray-flanneled collegiate on how to be what every company wants, the scientist is prepared to confront the enemy (after quickly trading in his rolled-up trousers and flapping shirt for a neat brown suit)…He hides the cello he plays with pick-up quartets, he hides the medieval history books his wife writes, he hides all but the acceptable three liquor bottles. He hides, in fact, everything that he and his wife are. And hauls out the television set…What follows is a literately comical playaround with industrial conformity that for sheer humor is, well, wonderfully adult.”

Performances: July 21 – August 13, 2023

For more information click here.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 28-May 21

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Laurel Mill Playhouse, Apr 28-May 21

Laurel Mill Playhouse presents
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and lyrics by William Finn
Book written by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss
Directed by Michael Hartsfield
Musically Directed by Mimi McGinniss
Produced by Maureen Rogers

April 28 – May 21, 2023
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
Friday April 28 at 8pm
Saturday April 29 at 8pm
Friday May 5 at 8pm
Saturday May 6 at 8pm
Friday May 12 at 8pm
Saturday May 13 at 8pm
Sunday May 14 at 2pm
Friday May 19 at 8pm
Saturday May 20 at 8pm
Sunday May 21 at 2pm

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life-un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. ~ MTI.

Ticket prices: $23 general, $18 students/military/seniors

LMP strongly urges that all patrons that come to LMP be vaccinated and wear masks. At this time, we will not require vaccination cards and masks in LMP but reserve the right to change the guidelines should the positivity rate rise significantly.

Buy tickets here.

For further information, please call 301-617-9906, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557.