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, Aug 29

Joe Clair and Friends presents the Bangin’ in Bowie Comedy

Saturday, August 29, 2026, at 7pm & 9:30pm
Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 7pm & 9:30pm
Saturday, October 31, 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.

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

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

The Book of Mamaw at the Bowie CPA, Sep 20

Eugene Wolf Presents: The Book of Mamaw

Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 3:00PM

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

The Book of Mamaw is a storytelling concert of love, memory, and legacy. Join us for an unforgettable evening of stories and songs about family, memory, and the people who shape our lives.

Tickets: $21.40. Click here.

Tags: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie Maryland, Eugene Wolf, The Book of Mamaw

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, 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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