Turn Your Life Into A Play! at the Publick Playhouse, May 15, Online

Turn Your Life Into A Play! at the Publick Playhouse, May 15

Prince George’s County Parks and Recreation, Online

Playback Theater: Turn Your Life Into A Play!

Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 5:00 to 6:30pm

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse, Online

Come play with us! Enter the world of Playback Theater where your personal story is magically transformed into a work of art before your eyes. Watch as masterful actors take real-life stories and turn them into mini-plays in real time. Don’t miss this exhilarating and moving medium of storytelling where life is imitated by art. No experience needed. Sign up today and bring a story to share.

Community Healing Theater Workshop – Virtual – 316003

Let’s talk it out! Join us for a series of theater workshops designed to promote community healing. Learn, listen, and get on the road to recovery through creative dialogue on community issues. Theater can be therapeutic as it brings in various perspectives and lifts to your spirit.

Let’s talk it out! Join us for a series of theater workshops designed to promote community healing. Learn, listen, and get on the road to recovery through creative dialogue on community issues. Theater can be therapeutic as it brings in various perspectives and lifts to your spirit.

A link to access the interactive performance on the Microsoft Teams Platform will be shared following registration.

For Ages 18 and Up

Free, registration required. Click here.

Alice in Wonderland at the Greenbelt Community Center, Dec 15 & 16

Alice in Wonderland at the Greenbelt Community Center, Dec 15 & 16

Alice in Wonderland

Saturday, December 15, 2018, 3:00-4:00pm
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 3:00-4:00pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Greenbelt Dance Studio, a program of the Greenbelt Department of Recreation, presents an original production inspired by Lewis Carroll’s children’s book, Alice in Wonderland. The show features a range of dance styles including ballet, jazz, tap and contemporary, performed by a talented cast of dancers from elementary through high school. This performance commemorates the 80th anniversary of the first children’s dance recital presented in Greenbelt in December 1938.

Tickets are $5. To order tickets, call or visit the Community Center
business office (301-397-2208) Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:30pm.

Register for Theater Skills or Home-School Classes at Huntington Community Center

2019 Winter Teen Theater Skills Workshop at the Huntington Community Center, Dec 3, 2018 – Feb 22, 2019

M-NCPPC Theater Skills Workshop for ages 10-15

Mondays, 6pm to 8pm and Fridays, 7pm to 9pm; December 3, 2018 – February 22, 2019

Location: Huntington Community Center, 13022 8th Street, Bowie MD.

Learn how to stage a play, including acting, stage design, stage presence, and costume design. Present it to family and friends at the end of the camp session.

Ages 10 yrs. – 15 yrs.

No fee: free course.

To sign up click here and search for keyword “theatre”.


2019 Winter Home-School Theater Class at the Huntington Community Center, Tue, Jan 8-Feb 26, 2019

M-NCPPC Home-School Theater Class for ages 8-14

Tuesdays, 11:30pm to 1:00pm, January 8 – February 26, 2019

Location: Huntington Community Center, 13022 8th Street, Bowie MD.

Learn the basics of putting together a play.

Ages 8 yrs. – 14 yrs.

Fee: $50 residents; $65 non-residents

To sign up click here and search for keyword “theatre”.

Katherine Fahey’s Crankies at the Greenbelt Community Center, Oct 7

Katherine Fahey’s Crankies at the Greenbelt Community Center, Oct 7

Katherine Fahey presents Crankies

Katherine Fahey will present a series of intimate, table-top shadow puppet shows. Fahey creates exquisite, narrative “crankies” – backlit, hand-cranked panoramas with cut paper imagery combined with live-animated shadow puppets and music. The program will open with a visualization of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and a childhood memory of Baltimore’s arabber produce vendors and their colorful horse-drawn carts. Additional pieces will include a remembrance of the artist’s father and his love of birds, and two ghost stories to kick off the Halloween season.

Artful Afternoon Sunday, first Sunday of every month, 1pm to 4pm.
Craft project from 1pm to 3pm.
Performance at 3pm.
Studio open house and sale, 1-4pm, with the Community Center’s Artists in Residence.

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Performance and craft workshop are free.

Maryland Opera Studio presents Town Hall at Clarice Smith, Feb 9

Maryland Opera Studio presents Town Hall at Clarice Smith, Feb 9

Town Hall
Maryland Opera Studio New Work Reading 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018 . 7:30 PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Gildenhorn Recital Hall, General Admission.

In a small town, somewhere in America, a community gathers to ask their senator questions about the politics of the day, and the proceedings are live-streamed on social media by a young intern. But the conversation turns into a heated debate with mortal stakes when a retired librarian takes the event hostage.

Maryland Opera Studio students premiere an opera by the winner of the annual Opera Composition Contest. Launched in 2017, the contest is a joint initiative of the Maryland Opera Studio and Artist Partner Program to support the cultivation and performance of new work.

Free, no tickets required.