The Clarice

Nichole Canuso Dance Company’s ‘The Garden’ at The NextNOW Fest at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, an incubator for arts of all kinds on the University of Maryland campus, is bustling with the NextNOW Fest, running through this Sunday, September 14, 2014. A...

‘NextDANCE’ at The NextNOW Fest at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The NextNOW Festival at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has a wonderful line-up of performances running through this Sunday, September 14th at the gorgeous arts space on the University of...

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s ‘NextNOW Fest’ is Tomorrow Through Sunday by Emily Schweich

Given the inherent separation between performer and audience, it’s easy for the performing arts to become a passive experience. Not anymore. The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (The Clarice) is...

‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ and ‘I Pagliacci’ at Maryland Lyric Opera

Maryland Lyric Opera presents its debut season at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park with the stunning and beautiful production of Cavalleria...

‘Zero Cost House’ at Pig Iron Theatre Company at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The Pig Iron Theater Company’s production of Zero Cost House by Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a performance you have to...

‘Pleated’- MFA Thesis Concert by Stephanie Miracle at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Walking into the Dance Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, I was excited to attend Pleated, Stephanie Miracle’s MFA Thesis Concert. My excitement stemmed from my interest in Miracle’s...

31st Annual Choreographers Showcase at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Rick Westerkamp

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center hosted the 31st Annual Choreographers’ Showcase this past weekend. The program welcomed seven modern dance works, which were all adjudicated by Sidra Bell and...

Mavis Staples at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Ramona Harper

The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and its protest for peace and freedom are being kept alive by the legendary Mavis Staples. In concert at the Kay Theatre of the University of Maryland’s Clarice...

‘David Dorfman Dance: Come, and Back Again’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Carolyn Kelemen

Dorfman mines comic gold in his junkyard dance Anyone who ever yawned through a pretentious ballet or heaved a sign of relief when a particularly ominous modern dance finally ended can breathe a bit...

‘The Kronos Quartet 40th Anniversary’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Bev Fleisher

I never expect less than the finest performances from the the Kronos Quartet. The Quartet presented yet another outstanding demonstration of their virtuosity at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at...

‘The Matchmaker’ at The School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at University of Maryland by Tiffany Draut

University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ production of The Matchmaker at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has it all: mistaken identity, incessant weeping,...

The Miami String Quartet at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Lisa Driscoll

The award-winning Miami String Quartet performed a variety of contemporary and Romantic pieces on Friday night at the Clarice Center for Performing Arts. The group ended the show in collaboration with...

‘Maria Schneider Orchestra’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Lisa Driscoll

In a night filled with everything from big band charts to accordion-led ballads,

‘That Kind of Girl’ and ‘Gretel’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Ramona Harper

That Kind of Girl That Kind of Girl delves deeply below the emotional surface in an innovative stream of creative consciousness that examines gender equality as it flows vignette to vignette in an...

‘Anda Union: The Wind Horse’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

A little bit of Mongolia came to College Park on Friday, September 20, 2013, as the group Anda Union performed their concert The Wind Horse at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the...

‘Civil War to Civil Rights: The Well-Being of a Nation’ at The Clarice Center for the Performing Arts by Ramona Harper

Martin, Medgar, Malcolm, Thurgood, Colin, Jesse, Sammy, Trayvon, Barack. Julian. Searing black and white snapshots of America’s past and present were opening images for the University of Maryland’s...

Meredith Monk at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Carolyn Kelemen

Meredith Monk: shaking off the old notions It’s often difficult to shake off the pre-conceived notions and expectations of what a particular dance concert is going to be like. I am not exactly clear...

‘Les Illuminations’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at U of MD by Tiffany Draut

A concert program that consists of Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler could be considered just another classical concert in a town filled with classical music. Yet when that program includes a...

‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ at Clarice Smith Performance Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

There is a fine group of young actors in the cast of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a surrealistic and sometimes confusing play (I wish there were more production notes to help make the play more...

‘An Evening with Branford Marsalis’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is known for its quality performances, and the audience is always more than appreciative. But the February 15, 2013 concert, An Evening with Branford Marsalis,...

Bill T. Jones and Anne Bogart’s ‘A Rite’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Carolyn Kelemen

Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun, leave it to MacArthur Genius award-winner Bill T. Jones to find a new outlet for his creative talents. And a new term, “dacting,” dance and...

’30th Annual Choreographers’ Showcase’ at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Rick Westerkamp

When I attend a showcase of multiple artists’ works, I expect that the program will be distributed evenly between those that intrigue, and those that bore. It’s a good evening in the theatre when one...

‘Christmas Gift!’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Audrey Thornton

A Celebration of African American Holiday Traditions Through Music and Spoken Word The premiere was, as they say, “all that.” Before an appreciative fully engaged audience Director and artistic...

‘Die Zauberflöte’ (‘The Magic Flute’) at U of MD’s Maryland Opera Studio

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) is widely considered to be Mozart’s masterpiece, a label which brings with it high expectations. Fortunately, those expectations were more than amply fulfilled in the...

‘In the Red and Brown Water’ at University of Maryland by Jessica Vaughan

In the Red and Brown Water is a stunning piece of theater by the School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland at the state of the art Clarice Smith Performing Arts...

Winner Announced For Tickets To ‘SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: The Music of Chick Corea…’ at U of MD

Our Winner of the two tickets is MARIE HIMEL The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is offering one lucky DCMTA reader a free pair of tickets to tomorrow night’s SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: The Music of...

‘Paul Taylor Dance Company’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

If tonight’s performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company is anything to go on, this year’s season at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland College Park is going to be...

‘Iron Cross’ at University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Mike Spain

Great music transcends language barriers. Saturday night I wished I understood Burmese when I went to University of Maryland to see Iron Cross. I know I would have enjoyed the show even more. Iron...

National Festival Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin at University of MD

From the first notes of the violins at tonight’s concert by the National Festival Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin conducting, the audience knew they were in for a delightful night, with a first-rate...

‘Annual Pops Concert’ at University of Maryland by Tiffany Draut

In general, Pops Concerts are a refreshing change of pace from the usual classical fare of orchestras and bands, and tonight was no exception. Tonight was the University of Maryland’s Annual Pops...

‘Sandwalk’ at University of Maryland’s School of Theatre Dance Performance Studies by Tiffany Draut

Usually, when I am in the theatre, I’m very grateful for the fourth wall. The players interact with each other, and I am content merely to sit and watch and enjoy, or passively ponder. Yet in the...

‘Miss Havisham’s Fire’ At Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

There are certain characters in literature that, for whatever reason, capture the imagination, whether for good or ill. Miss Havisham, with her decaying wedding dress and moldering wedding feast, has...

‘Everything in the Garden’ at University of Maryland School of Theatre Dance Performance Studies by Tiffany Draut

Today all anyone ever seems to be talking about is the economy — money problems. It fills the newspapers and the speeches of the political candidates. Yet one of most effective commentaries I’ve seen...