Articles Tagged With: The Bowie Playhouse

The Dinner Party at Bowie Community Theatre 📷 Reed Sigmon

The Dining Room at Bowie Community Theatre

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author: Wes Dennis

Hungry for a show filled with fun performances, (mostly) fun and engaging writing, and more characters (and costumes!) than you’d potentially encounter across a marathon weekend of productions? Bowie Community Theatre has a place set for you with A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, a delightful dish that offers a smorgasbord of theatricality that sees eight actors performing no less than 18 (!) vignettes during its 2-hour, 10-minute runtime.

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(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

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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

   

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Bowie Community Theatre

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As I
watched The Last Night of Ballyhoo, written by Alfred Uhry and directed
by Ilene Chalmers, at the Bowie Community Theatre, I had a thought somewhere during
Act I, Scene 4: “This play really is about something.” This is
not to say that I disliked the production before that; even before coming to
that revelation I would have acknowledged the stellar set and the faultless
performances from the cast.

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