2nd Star Productions presents two musicals and several other shows each season at the Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, in Bowie Maryland, 20715, and occasionally at other venues.
Contact:
Website: http://www.2ndstarproductions.com
Mailing address: 2nd Star Productions, 1106 Skyway Drive,Annapolis, MD 21409
Phone: 410-757-5700 or 301-832-4819.
2nd Star President, Jane B. Wingard can be reached via email at jbw-2ndstar@excite.com.
Upcoming shows:
Crowns by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, Feb 10-25
Crowns
by Regina Taylor
Director & Choreographer: Rikki Howie Lacewell
Music Director: LeVar Betts
Producer: Cheramie Jackson
February 10 – 25, 2023
Fridays through Sundays. *Closing Saturday performance is a matinee.
2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse
A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of Black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young Black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. The conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional and older Southern blacks, embracing hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.
Tickets for shows at Bowie Playhouse are $25.00 for General Admission, $22.00 for seniors (60 and over), military and full time students, and $15 for Children 11 and under. Buy tickets here.
Tags: 2nd Star Productions, The Bowie Playhouse, Bowie Maryland, Crowns, Regina Taylor, Rikki Howie Lacewell, LeVar Betts, Cheramie Jackson
Something Rotten by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, May 26-Jun 24
Something Rotten
May 26 – June 24, 2023
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell
Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by Alanna Kiewe
Music Directed by Sarah Mitchell
Choreographed by Kelsey Meiklejohn Bowen & Summer Moore
2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse
Performances: May 26 – June 24, 2023, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm *Note: June 24th is a Saturday matinee performance
Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star aka Shakespeare. When the local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick sets out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of the opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.
Tickets for shows at Bowie Playhouse are $25.00 for General Admission, $22.00 for seniors (60 and over), military and full time students, and $15 for Children 11 and under. Buy tickets here.
Tags: 2nd Star Productions, The Bowie Playhouse, Bowie Maryland, Something Rotten, Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Alanna Kiewe, Sarah Mitchell, Kelsey Meiklejohn Bowen, Summer Moore
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