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NextNOW Fest at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-14

NextNOW Fest at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-14

September 11 to September 14, 2014

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

A four-day festival of theatre, music, dance, food and more.

For the first time ever, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is kicking off our season with four days of fun and frolic with the NextNOW Fest! Discover the next big thing in small, intimate and surprising environments: sonic massages, subway buskers, Terptastic jazz, deep theatre for your short attention span, dance mysteries, late-night art explosions, food frolics, an arts tailgate, and toast… and then something curious… and then…

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is building the future of the arts now! We are breaking through traditional boundaries in art making and audience experience by being a hub of innovation and possibility. We are creating artistic opportunities that build connections, foster exploration and invigorate you to find your voice.

Most events are free.

For a detailed schedule of events see: http://theclarice.umd.edu/series/2014-nextnow-fest

The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-12

The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at Clarice Smith, Sep 11-12

The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
September 11 & 12, 2014
Series: 2014 NextNOW Fest

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 . 7:30PM
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 . 9:00PM

Tickets: Free, no tickets required. Dance Theatre, Reserved Seating.

Description: Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is an artistic attempt to perform 30 two-minute plays, selected at random in front of the audience’s eyes.

With an aesthetic that draws upon Dada, Surrealism and the work of the original Italian Futurists, the single unifying element of the short plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty.

This experimental theatre company’s co-artistic director, Kurt Chiang, is a graduate of UMD’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. But would you expect anything less?

Maryland Lyric Opera presents Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci at Clarice Smith, Jul 19-27

Maryland Lyric Opera presents Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci at Clarice Smith, Jul 19-27

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kay Theatre. Reserved Admission.

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Regular: $45
Senior (62+): $35
Students: $20

Saturday, Jul 19, 2014, 7:00PM
Sunday, Jul 20, 2014, 2:00PM
Saturday, Jul 26, 2014, 7:00PM
Sunday, Jul 27, 2014, 2:00PM

Description: Cavalleria Rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play and short story written by Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on 17 May 1890, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Since 1893, it has often been performed in a so-called Cav/Pag double-bill with Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

Buy a DVD, CD, book or score of Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci on Amazon.

Caribbean Comedy Festival at Clarice Smith, June 29

Caribbean Comedy Festival at Clarice Smith, June 29

Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 7:00pm

Laugh Out Loud Scholarship Fundraiser

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Dekelboum Concert Hall. General Admission.

Tickets
Regular: $40
Students: $25
All tickets at the Door: $45

Description:

In 2014, Caribbeana Communications Inc. (CCI), a Maryland 501(c)(3) non-profit media broadcasting company, is celebrating 25 years of cultural diversity and innovation in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.

To commemorate this achievement, Caribbeana is hosting a Comedy Festival as its major fundraiser. During this show CCI will announce its scholarship recipient of a $1,000 scholarship. In addition, the audience will hear artists from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, and America showcase their talents that will make you, ‘Laugh Out Loud’ or feel the beat of the Caribbean.

Don’t wait, get your ticket today. Tickets are $40 or $25 for students. At the door it is more, $45. But remember, we aren’t just going to be laughing and having a good time, we will be supporting a youth advance in his or her education.

To learn more about Caribbeana Communications Inc. visit http://caribbeana.org or call 301.459.1775. See you there!

2014 CCF Laugh Out Loud cast and program support includes: Von Martin and Sprangalang, Co-Masters of Ceremonies, Lord Relator (Trinidad & Tobago), Mac Fingall (Barbados), Nikki Crosby (Trinidad & Tobago), Joan Hutchinson (Jamaica), Lingo (Trinidad & Tobago/Extempo Artiste), Pan Lara Steel Pan (DMV), and DJ Knightrin (DMV).

An Iliad at Clarice Smith, May 2-3

Lisa Peterson & ​Denis O’Hare/Homer’s Coat present An Iliad at Clarice Smith, May 2-3

May 2 & 3, 2014 . 8PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kay Theatre. Reserved Seating.

Click Here to Buy Tickets:
Regular: $40
Subscriber: $32
Senior Citizen: $35
UMD Alumni Association: $35
UMD Faculty & Staff: $32
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, May 2, 2014 . 8:00PM
Sat, May 3, 2014 . 8:00PM

Description:

In An Iliad, actor Denis O’Hare and director Lisa Peterson telescope Homer’s great poem about the Trojan War into an intimate solo show illuminating both the heroism and the horror of warfare.

Set in a contemporary milieu, the one-man performance stars an ageless Greek singer and poet. The script is rendered in contemporary vernacular language with occasional snatches of verse and even a few bellowed lines in Homer’s original Greek. The play’s sole narrator, a battered-looking character who claims to have been recounting the yarn throughout the ages, combines the reverence and mystery of ancient Greek mythology with the dynamic urban rhythms of contemporary life.

O’Hare describes his character as “a ‘living book’ sitting on the shelf, and either he’s being pulled down off the shelf by willing participants or he’s willing himself off the shelf to fall open in a time when the culture needs him.”