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We are building the future of the arts by educating, training and presenting the next generation of artists and creative innovators. By shaping NextNOW audiences, experiences and artists, The Clarice breaks through traditional boundaries in art-making and audience development through the work of its 5 partners:

- The School of Music attracts a different kind of artist; one that understands tradition and celebrates curiosity.
- The School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies expands our capacity through performing arts to build communities, solve problems and create a life of meaning.
- The National and International Artist Partner Program nurtures new voices, new works, and new ways to explore and discover ourselves and the world in which we live.
- The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission partners to improve the quality of life through the arts for all citizens in a diverse and inclusive community.
- The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library is transforming space, both virtual and physical into dynamic collaborative learning environments for all of us. The Clarice is in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. As part of a major public research university, The Clarice is committed to collaboration and the creation and support of new work that further advances our knowledge and understanding, working in its creative radius. The Clarice opened in 2001 and is a vital part of the arts ecology in Prince George’s County.

Read on to see what's happening this week at The Clarice! Tickets and more information at our website.
10/05/2026

Read on to see what's happening this week at The Clarice!

Tickets and more information at our website.

Learn more about our 25 years at the University of Maryland!
10/02/2026

Learn more about our 25 years at the University of Maryland!

The UMD Symphony Orchestra opens its 2026–27 season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” a revolutionary masterwor...
10/02/2026

The UMD Symphony Orchestra opens its 2026–27 season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” a revolutionary masterwork that influenced symphonic form for centuries after its debut. Join us as the UMD Symphony performs this revolutionary masterwork from one of history’s most influential composers, alongside works by Carlos Simon and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

At The Clarice on Oct 3. Tickets and more information at our website.

Led by Michael Votta, Jr., UMWO is a leader among collegiate ensembles in premiering new works for winds. This season’s ...
10/01/2026

Led by Michael Votta, Jr., UMWO is a leader among collegiate ensembles in premiering new works for winds. This season’s engaging performances will feature faculty soloists and world premieres of new works and masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.

On Oct 2, The UMD Wind Orchestra opens the 2026-2027 season with an array of works from the wind band repertoire.

Tickets and more information at our website.

When the power goes out, what stories survive? In Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post‑Electric Play, a band of survivors h...
09/30/2026

When the power goes out, what stories survive? In Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post‑Electric Play, a band of survivors huddles around a fire and retells The Simpsons episode, “Cape Feare.” As the years pass, commercial jingles become parables, pop songs turn into hymns and TV characters (like the titular Mr. Burns) transform into mythic figures of the time before the collapse. Wildly funny and unexpectedly moving, Mr. Burns is a genre-bending mash-up of theater, pop culture, opera and commedia dell’arte with “depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination” (The New York Times). Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova (Artistic Director, Spooky Action Theater), this daring play returns to its roots after premiering at D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.

At The Clarice Oct 9, 10, 15, 16 and 18. Tickets and more information at our website.

Internationally respected for their innovative programming, the renowned Takács Quartet has collaborated with a fascinat...
09/30/2026

Internationally respected for their innovative programming, the renowned Takács Quartet has collaborated with a fascinating variety of talents, including the bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro, actors Meryl Streep and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The members of Takács–Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and Mihai Ma**ca (cello)–are Hyperion recording artists and Christoffersen Fellows in Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally founded in 1975 at the Music Academy in Budapest, the quartet is currently based out of North America but tours and performs almost continually around the world.

At The Clarice on Oct 18. Tickets and more information at our website.

Counterpoint is a one-of-a-kind project—part dance and part piano recital, with a dose of theatrics—that demands to be e...
09/29/2026

Counterpoint is a one-of-a-kind project—part dance and part piano recital, with a dose of theatrics—that demands to be experienced live! The collaboration between great American composer and pianist Conrad Tao and outstanding tap dancer Caleb Teicher is a uniquely fresh and deeply vital exploration of percussion's transcendent joys of sound and impact.

Back at The Clarice by popular demand, the duo uncover fresh perspectives with exciting harmonic, rhythmic and theatrical traditions linking each other's practices across disciplines and eras.

At The Clarice on Oct 4. Tickets and more information at our website.

Ever since her 2014 breakout year on “Saturday Night Live”, comedian Leslie Jones' star has skyrocketed to the point whe...
09/29/2026

Ever since her 2014 breakout year on “Saturday Night Live”, comedian Leslie Jones' star has skyrocketed to the point where it's no exaggeration to call her one of the world's funniest and most beloved comedians. A multiple Emmy Award-nominee, Jones has become a recognizable face as the host of “Supermarket Sweep,” “The Daily Show”, the BET Awards and the MTV Movie Awards, along with regular appearances on “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” and “RuPaul's Drag Race.” For her Clarice debut, Jones rolls out a night of jokes, celebrity stories and some unexpected surprises for a laugh-filled set you won't forget!

At The Clarice on Oct 7. Tickets and more information at our website.

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