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:
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.
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Bangin’ in Bowie at the Bowie CPA, Oct 24
Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy
Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 7pm & 9:30pm (TBC)
Saturday, November 28, 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.
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A Christmas Carol at the Bowie CPA, Dec 13-20
The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts presents:
A Christmas Carol
Written by Charles Dickens
Adapted and Directed by Chris Dwyer
Sunday, December 13, 2026 at 4pm
Friday, December 18, 2026 at 7pm
Sunday, December 20, 2026 at 4pm
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.
Celebrate the holidays at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts with our acclaimed production of Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted and directed by Christopher Dwyer. Filled with music, magic, humor, and heart, this heartwarming holiday favorite brings the beloved story to life for audiences of all ages!
Dickens’ timeless tale follows Ebenezer Scrooge on an extraordinary journey of redemption. Visited by his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and three mysterious spirits, Scrooge is forced to confront his past, reconsider his present, and peer into his future to discover the importance of family, generosity, empathy — and the true spirit of the holiday season.
Returning for its fourth annual season, with a few surprising updates, the BCPA’s own A CHRISTMAS CAROL features a cast of professional actors and musicians performing alongside talented community performers of all ages! Join us to celebrate the season, connect as a community, and support your friends and neighbors performing on the BCPA mainstage.
Tickets: $20 adult; $14 child. Click here.
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Raine at the Bowie CPA, Mar 26
Studio Nikki presents:
Raine, the Stage Play
Friday, March 26, 2027 at 7pm
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.
WHEN OBSESSION HAS NO LIMITS… She wants him. She wants control. And she will stop at nothing to get both! NOTHING!
Raine is seductive, calculating, and dangerously obsessed. When desire turns into manipulation, the people around her become pawns in a game they never agreed to play. But every game has consequences. As secrets are exposed and obsession spirals out of control, Raine takes you on a disturbing journey where love, lust, power, and revenge collide. You may think you know someone… until you meet Raine.
ONE NIGHT. ONE STAGE. ONE UNHINGED WOMAN. Come see what happens when obsession has no limits.
Mature Audience | Mature Language | Mature Themes | Partial Nudity
Tickets: $50 to $60. Click here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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