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Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews July 27, 2026 Ryan J Bordenski Leave a comment

author: Ryan J. Bordenski

Love is in the air, but so is deceit, mockery, adultery, the withholding of information, lies, and…uh…dental procedures? But don’t worry; this is a comedy so everything will be funny and fine in the end, right?! Of course, I am talking about Return Engagements at Bowie Community Theatre. This farcical and comedic play by Bernard Slade tells the story of four unique and awkward couples who have separate chance encounters and trysts,

Web Of Murder at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews November 7, 2025 Cybele Pomeroy

author: Cybele Pomeroy

Web of Murder of Bowie Community Theatre: Killer comedy? Or comedy killed?

Really, this show should slay you in your seat. It’s a cozy little Victorian scenario, with all the tropes you’d expect, including lots of doors for popping in and out of, a set decorated to within an inch of its two-by-four life, an eight-member multi-generational cast, dogs, secret passageways, supernatural trances and enough villainous intent to fill an Orient Express.

Louis B. Murray (left) as Oscar and Paul Ballard as Felix (right) in Bowie Theatre Company's production of The Odd Couple 📷 Reed Sigmon

The Odd Couple at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews April 1, 2025 Chris Pence

author: Chris Pence

Stuck in the Middle With You: The Odd Couple at Bowie Community Theatre

Some things never change, like the frustration and camaraderie of having roommates, especially those that drive us crazier than a worm in a bowl of spaghetti (IT’S LINGUINI!!!). Neil Simon’s classic buddy comedy, The Odd Couple, screams its way onto the Bowie Community Theatre stage with hilarious consequence.

Perhaps Simon’s most well-known play,

One Slight Hitch at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews July 20, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Expectations are the hobgoblins of the complacent mind. Because nonsense is the new sense when Lewis Black is your playwright. Kicking off summer with a comedic offering, Bowie Community Theatre is retro-tripping back to the summer of 1981 with Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch. Directed by Jennifer L. Franklin, this show has all the potential hallmarks of a farce and might even make you giggle.

The players do well with this script but the show is not without issues and the majority of those issues come from playwright Lewis Black.

A Piece of My Heart at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews November 5, 2018 Angel Duque

Women are strong. When most people think of war, the first image that comes to their mind is that of a man charging into battle. It wasn’t until last year that our military opened the doors for women to serve in combat roles. In spite of this, women serving in and alongside the military have faced the horrors of war just as valiantly men have, and they too have suffered the consequences of such violence.

Review: Lost in Yonkers at Prince George’s Little Theatre

Reviews August 16, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

The only place in the world where you can truly feel safe is with family. Especially when your family puts the ‘fun’ in dysfunctional as the Kurnitz family does in the classic Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers, now appearing at Bowie’s playhouse in the woods to start off the 2016/2017 season for Prince George’s Little Theatre. Directed by Ken Kienas, this touching family dramedy tugs at the heartstrings as two teenage boys find themselves unexpected living with their extremely rigid and strictly traditional German grandmother out in Yonkers,

Review: Flyin’ West at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews April 12, 2015 Joshua Engel

From the moment Kecia Campbell strides on stage as Sophie Washington in a plain, sensible dress and sturdy boots, toting a shotgun, Flyin’ West presents realistic, incisive portrayals of the women of color who settled the West in the 19th century. It’s set in the real-life town of Nicodemus, Kansas where newly-freed African Americans created a community following the Civil War. Presented by Bowie Community Theatre at The Bowie Playhouse and Directed by Estelle Miller,