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Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, May 10

Experimental Performance Series at the Clarice, May 10

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Experimental Performance Series #5
Saturday, May 10, 2025 • 2PM & 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The Experimental Performance Series is a collection of self produced works from undergraduate and graduate students in theatre and dance, ranging from production of established works to brand new plays and choreography.

Tickets: free, tickets required, click here.

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents Deadline at the Clarice, May 10

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents Deadline at the Clarice, May 10

Maryland Ghostlight Company Presents:
Deadline: A Murder Mystery Comedy
by Don Zolidis
directed by Keegan Perry and Matthew Dietrich

Saturday, May 10 • 2PM & 7PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents Deadline by Don Zolidis, premiering May 10th at the Cafritz Foundation Theatre in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center! A student-led theater club dedicated to straight plays, this will be the company’s fourth production. TDPS students Keegan Perry and Matthew Dietrich directed the play, and stage management is done by Jaylyn Manu, Amelia Du Bois, and Rushi Jain.

Tickets: free, no tickets required, click here.

Maryland Day at the Clarice, Apr 26

Maryland Day at the Clarice, Apr 26

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Maryland Day 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025 • 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!

The day includes a free performance of Hip Hop Anansi.

Tickets: free, no tickets required, click here.

Hip Hop Anansi at the Clarice, Apr 18-26

Hip Hop Anansi at the Clarice, Apr 18-26

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Hip Hop Anansi
by Eisa Davis
directed by Paige Hernandez

April 18–26, 2025
Fri, Apr 18, 2025 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 1:00PM: Includes ASL interpretation.
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 . 4:00PM
Fri, Apr 25, 2025 . 7:30PM: Includes an audio description.
Sat, Apr 26, 2025 . 11:00AM
The April 26 performance is free and not ticketed as part of Maryland Day 2025.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The story of Anansi and his trickster family is put into a sleek hip hop context for Hip Hop Anansi, a modern, all-ages adaptation of a traditional Ashanti folktale. Anansi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award for Tricksterism and is not above outwitting his own family to win it. But his rhyming, break dancing, graffiti-ing children are ready to claim the prize in their own right. Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, directs this new vision of a classic African folk tale as penned by the acclaimed actress, playwright and singer-songwriter Eisa Davis.

Tickets: Tickets: $25 Public, $10 Students, click here.

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents Deadline at the Clarice, Apr 11

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents Deadline at the Clarice, Apr 11

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
Maryland Ghostlight Company Spring Cabaret
Deadline: a murder mystery comedy

Friday, April 11, 2025 • 7PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Maryland Ghostlight Company presents, Deadline: a murder mystery comedy.

When eight mystery writers arrive at a legendary writer’s fog-shrouded island mansion in the North Atlantic, they think they’re ready for the Deadline Challenge—twenty-four restful hours to write as much of their new novel as possible. But the Deadline Challenge is anything but restful. In reality, the writers are brought together to solve a murder—the victim yet be determined, and the killer yet to strike. If a writer can design and execute a perfect murder and get away with it, they’ll win a million dollars (which is a lot of money for a writer). Who will live? Who will die? Who will survive the Deadline?

Ghostlight provides a place for UMD students to produce, perform and design published contemporary plays in a student-run environment.

Tickets: Free, no tickets required, click here.