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Sweat at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews April 13, 2026 Rick Bergmann

Powerful Acting Carries Sweat at Greenbelt Arts Center

author: Rick Bergmann

We often imagine theater audiences as “predominantly white, affluent, middle-aged or older, and highly educated,” and the stories on stage as far removed from everyday struggle. Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, dismantles that assumption. Centered on flawed, hard-working individuals clinging to the promise of the American Dream, the play lays bare how quickly that promise can unravel—and how easily anyone can break.

The Hot L Baltimore at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews October 5, 2025 Steven Wilson

author: Steven Howell Wilson

When an ensemble cast meshes seamlessly, hitting every cue, overtalking in the right places,
quipping and bickering, interweaving a dozen diverse life stories, it’s uniquely satisfying. It’s as
impressive as watching the coordinated dives and catches of a troupe of aerial acrobats. Well,
maybe the audience’s blood pressure stays lower with the actors than with the acrobats.
Greenbelt Arts Center’s production of The Hot L Baltimore hits this satisfying mark.

(L to R) Louis B. Murray as Troy, Ryan Willis as Lyons, Tillmon Figgs as Bono and JoAn Monplaisir as Rose in August Wilson's Fences at Bowie Community Theatre ???? Reed Sigmon.

Fences at Bowie Community Theatre

Reviews April 7, 2022 Wes Dennis

As I watched this long-awaited production of August Wilson’s Fences from the Bowie Community Theatre (it was set to open in March 2020 before life got so much more… interesting), I couldn’t help recalling lines from Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”:

They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

Almost, Maine at Greenbelt Arts Center

Reviews January 28, 2018 Rachel Zirkin Duda

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

– Maya Angelou

What is love? Why does it happen? How does it grow? When does it end? The residents of a little area way up north – Almost, Maine – have the same questions, and Director Bob Kleinberg brings their stories to the Greenbelt Arts Center just in time for Valentine’s Day.