Kreativity Open Mic
Friday, February 9, 2024. 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.
Queens of Sheba
by Jessica L. Hagan
In partnership with the Under the Radar Festival
Fri, Feb 2, 2024 . 8:00PM
Sat, Feb 3, 2024 . 8:00PM
Sun, Feb 4, 2024 . 3:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Presented by Nouveau Riche and Soho Theatre
Written by Jessica L. Hagan
Adapted by Ryan Calais Cameron
Directed by Jessica Kaliisa
Cast: Paisley Billings, Déja J Bowens, Jadesola Odunjo, Muki Zubis
Producer for Nouveau Riche: Sarah Verghese
Producers for Soho Theatre: David Luff and Maddie Wilson
Communications & Marketing: Yasmin Mehboob-Khan
Stage Manager: Marie Angelique St Hill
Vocal Coach: Theo Llewellyn
The four powerful Black women that form the beating heart of Jessica L. Hagan’s knowingly sharp and riotously funny choreopoem Queens of Sheba demand respect and, with every story told, they earn it. A spiritual successor to Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Queens incisively calls out and lances the constellation of racist, sexist and colorist micro- and macro-aggressions that its characters encounter: the music and the misogyny, the dancing and the drinking, the women and, of course, the (white) men. Turned away from a nightclub for being “too Black”, the Queens navigate the minefields of misogynoir, seeking power among the songs of Tina Turner and Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin, finding elevation in sisterhood, sweet relief in the riot of laughter and the shedding of tears. Playful, intellectually rigorous, packed with righteous fury and genuine soul, Queens of Sheba is a unique meditation on Black Women’s identity, suffering and joy.
Tickets: $30, or $10 Students. Click here.
Inua Ellams: Search Party
In partnership with the Under the Radar Festival
Fri, Jan 26, 2024 . 7:00PM
Sat, Jan 27, 2024 . 7:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
A man walks into a room with his life in his hands. He is the internationally acclaimed artist and playwright Inua Ellams (Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half God of Rainfall) and he has filled thousands of pages in an ongoing attempt to be heard, to give his genius wings that can travel. Every word he’s ever written is captured, all the poems and the theater and the essays, the drafts of projects abandoned and works as yet unknown, indexed, rendered as binary and waiting patiently within the confines of the electronic tablet he’s holding even now. Pick a word, any word. Prompted by audience suggestion and open conversation, Ellams searches through his archive, unearths refined or raw gold and presents his treasure in a spontaneous performance. Search Party is an act of call and response that hearkens back to the birth of storytelling. At this uniquely futuristic and puckishly chaotic interactive event, the artist couldn’t be more present. He’s inviting you to join the work. What do you say?
Tickets: $30 or $10 Students. Click here.
Tig Notaro
Fri, Jan 26, 2024 . 8:00PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor and actor, as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “Ellen.” Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Notaro appears in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery.” She wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi” and just released her second HBO special “Tig Notaro: Drawn.” In 2021, Tig co-directed the feature film “Am I OK?” with wife Stephanie Allynne, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available on HBO Max later this year. She hosts the critically acclaimed advice podcast, “Don’t Ask Tig,” as well as co-hosts the ridiculous documentary film podcast “Tig and Cheryl: True Story.”
Tickets: $30 to $60 or $10 Students Click here.
The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performaning Arts Center present:
Ballet Company M’s The Nutcracker
Sunday, December 17, 2023 • 3PM
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Ballet Company M is proud to present a rendition of Tchaikovsky’s classic holiday ballet, “The Nutcracker.” With the help of her Nutcracker, the audience will travel with Clara from her mother’s holiday party, through a beautiful snowstorm and into the magical Land of the Sweets.
Free, tickets required. Click here.
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