Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Address: 15200 Annapolis Rd, Bowie, MD 20715
The Center is immediately adjacent to Bowie High School and shares a parking lot with the Public Library.

Phone: (301) 805-6880

Website: http://www.bowiecenter.org/index.html

The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts is jointly owned and operated by Prince George’s County Public Schools, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the City of Bowie and the Bowie Regional Arts Vision Association (BRAVA). There are a wide variety of performances including music, dance and theater. This site lists the theatrical performances.

Upcoming shows:


Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Jun 27

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy

Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 7pm & 9:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy Series, each month featuring special guests, live music, and food!

Tickets: $35 to $50. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Bangin in Bowie, Joe Clair


The Way, The Truth, My Story at the Bowie CPA, Jul 5

Labi Productions in conjunction with Seventy9 Studios presents:
THE WAY, THE TRUTH, MY STORY

Sun, July 5, 2026 at 6:30PM

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Labi Productions in conjunction with Seventy9 Studios presents THE WAY, THE TRUTH, MY STORY, another comedy special by Oluwatosin Jedi Ayo live in Maryland at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets: $40 to $50. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Labi Productions, The Way The Truth My Story, Oluwatosin Jedi Ayo


Is This The Wiz at the Bowie CPA, Jul 18

Purple September Productions
In partnership with Vision Hope & Healing Angel Fund presents:
Is This The Wiz

Sauturday, July 18, 2026 at 5:00PM

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Join Purple September Productions and the Vision Hope & Healing Angel Fund at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts!

Tickets: $35. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Purple September Productions, Vision Hope & Healing Angel Fund, Is This The Wiz


Creek Street at the Bowie CPA, Aug 30

Creek Street, a new musical
Book & Lyrics by William Leary
Music by Stephen Geddes

Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 3:00PM

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Experience this new musical as it moves from page to stage! This workshop performance represents an invaluable part of the new play development process, and your presence will help shape the journey of this powerful new theatrical work.

Creek Street is based on the true story of Dolly Arthur, one of the last remaining residents of Ketchikan, Alaska’s infamous Creek Street — a boardwalk community of working women who built their own lives on their own terms in the early 1900s. The show follows journalist Ryan Kincaid, assigned to write Dolly’s obituary, who instead finds himself drawn into the remarkable story of a
woman who refused to let anyone else define her.

With book and lyrics by William Leary and music by Stephen Geddes, Creek Street weaves between two timelines — the vibrant world of Creek Street at its height and a nursing home where an 87-year-old Dolly Arthur proves she hasn’t lost an ounce of her fire. The show features 18 original songs spanning country, ragtime, and classic American musical theater.

“Dolly Arthur was a woman who named herself, built something real out of nothing, and never apologized for who she was,” says Leary. “Her story deserves to be told, and Creek Street is our attempt to tell it faithfully and with the respect it deserves.”

Tickets: $15 – $35. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Creek Street, William Leary, Stephen Geddes


Red Sky Over Halifax at the Bowie CPA, Sep 13

Red Sky Over Halifax: A New Musical Workshop Presentation
By Christopher Dwyer

Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 3:00PM

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Join us for a workshop presentation of Red Sky Over Halifax, a new musical written by BCPA Executive Director Christopher Dwyer. This performance represents an invaluable part of the new play development process — be among the first to see the show take shape and be part of the creative process that helps bring this new musical to life!

Set against the countdown to the 1917 Halifax Explosion, this powerful new work explores love, memory, maritime history, and Indigenous resilience in the face of colonial expansion. Featuring music by Mi’Kmaq artist Emma Stevens and UK sea shanty phenomenon The Longest Johns, Red Sky Over Halifax is an epic theatrical journey.

Tickets: $15 – $35. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Red Sky Over Halifax, Christopher Dwyer


Disenchanted at the Bowie CPA, Oct 16 & 17

Community Crisis Services, Inc. presents:
Disenchanted: a New Musical Comedy

Friday, October 16, 2026 at 8pm
Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 8pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

They lived happily ever after. Well … not exactly.

Tickets: $25 to $50. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Community Crisis Services, Disenchanted a New Musical Comedy


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Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Aug 30

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy

Saturday, August 30, 2025, at 7pm & 9:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy Series, each month featuring special guests, live music, and food!

Tickets: $35 to $50. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Bangin in Bowie, Joe Clair


A Christmas Carol at the Bowie CPA, Dec 6-21

The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts presents:
A Christmas Carol
Adapted from the book by Charles Dickens
Directed by Christopher Dwyer

December 6 – 15, 2024
Saturday, December 6 at 3pm and 7pm
Sunday, December 14 at 1pm and 4pm
Sunday, December 21 at 4pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

For families and patrons of all ages!

Celebrate the holidays at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts with our original production of Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted and directed by Christopher Dwyer.

Step back in time to Victorian London for one of the world’s most beloved stories, told with music, magic, humor, and heart in this acclaimed adaptation at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Follow London’s most notorious miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, as he journeys through time with a host of spirits to re-discover his own humanity — and the spirit of the holidays.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christopher Dwyer


Friends Who Smash presents Views From Forever at the Bowie CPA, Oct 30

Friends Who Smash presents
Views From Forever
starring Alfred and Sherrell Duncan

Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets: $40-$50. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Friends Who Smash, Views From Forever, Alfred Duncan, Sherrell Duncan


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Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Sep 28

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy

Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7pm & 9:30pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy Series, this month featuring special guests Damon Williams, Marshall Brandon, and John Phillips! Plus, there will be live music by Sound of the City, featuring Precious Joubert and DJ Two…

Tickets: $35 to $45. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Bangin in Bowie, Joe Clair, Damon Williams, Marshall Brandon, John Phillips, Sound of the City, Precious Joubert, DJ Two


I Will Always Love You at the Bowie CPA, Nov 15

Creative Entertainment presents:
Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You
starring Talein

Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 7pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Creative Entertainment presents Whitney Houston I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, a musical journey and tribute to the greatest female voice of all time, starring Talein!

Tickets: $40-$55. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Creative Entertainment, Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You, Talein


Ballet Theater of Maryland presents The Nutcracker at the Bowie CPA, Nov 25-26

The Game Changer: Stage Play
Margaret P. Bean, Playwright, Producer & Director

Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 7:00pm
Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 2:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Spend your holiday weekend at the Center as our partners, The Ballet Theater of Maryland, returns with The Nutcracker. For ticket info please visit http://balletmaryland.org/Performances/TheNutcracker/BowieCenterforthePerformingArts/tabid/113/Default.aspx

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, The Nutcracker, Ballet Theater of Maryland, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


The National Ballet Company presents The Nutcracker at the Bowie CPA, Dec 5-8

The Nutcracker

Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 10:30am
Friday, December 6, 2019 at 10:30am
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 7:00pm
Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 3:00pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

The National Ballet, Inc., Maryland’s oldest professional ballet company continues its tradition of winter holiday performances with the holiday favorite The Nutcracker. All performances are open to the public and run from December 5-8 2019 at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts. Weekday morning performances are geared toward arts in education with special discounts for school groups. All performances are open to the public.

Audiences of all ages will enjoy the magic wonderland of sweets in a Christmas dream of Tchaikovsky’s traditional Nutcracker. Many local children who are students of the National Ballet Institute for the Arts and others have been given the opportunity to begin realizing their dreams of dancing in a professional production as they appear as toy soldiers, candy canes, and bon-bons. The children dance along side an international cast of professional dancers from as far away as Japan and China.

Tickets: $25 to $35. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, The Nutcracker, The National Ballet Company, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


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