Crowns at Bowie Playhouse

2nd Star Productions presents Crowns

A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use hats to tell stories concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion.

Director/Choreographer - Rikki Lacewell Howie
Music Director - LeVar Betts
Producer - Cheramie Jackson

Dates & Times: February 10-25, Friday & Saturdays 8:00pm, Sundays 2:00pm. *Closing Saturday performance is a matinee.
Location: The Bowie Playhouse, 16500 Whitemarsh Park Drive, Bowie MD 20715

COVID-19 Policies: All audience members must be masked while in the Playhouse. Vaccination is strongly recommended but not required.

Tickets and more information at www.2ndStarProductions.org

Authors

• Craig Marberry
• Michael Cunningham
• Regina Taylor