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Clarice Presents
Performances - Community - Digital - Civic. Entertaining and innovating while driving positive change.
25th Anniversary Season
Celebrating 25 years with a series of American Stories - unheard histories, unforgettable voices.
Clarice Presents
Kayla Farrish Dance: Put Away the Fire, Dear
Uproots notions of power and agency to dismantle presumptions of American cinematic history across generations.
10/9 & 10/10
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School of Music
UMD Symphony Orchestra with Marc-André Hamelin
UMSO opens its 2025–26 Season with some of the most prolific American composers and American-inspired works.
10/10
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TDPS
She Loves Me
In this timeless musical comedy, two feuding co-workers, who cannot stand one another, don’t know that the anonymous pen pal they have both been falling for is actually each other!
10/18-10/25
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Clarice Presents
25th Anniversary Season
Clarice Presents
10/9 & 10/10
Kayla Farrish Dance: Put Away the Fire, Dear
School of Music
10/10
UMD Symphony Orchestra with Marc-André Hamelin
TDPS
10/18-10/25
She Loves Me
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The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center—or “The Clarice”—at the University of Maryland is the innovative and collaborative home for UMD’s School of Music (SOM); the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) and The Clarice’s own artistic platform, Clarice Presents, as well as The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (MSPAL). Together they create a welcoming, collaborative and socially-conscious community for students, artists and patrons. The Clarice leverages creativity, innovation, research and engagement—and the powerful resources of the university—to inspire and support artists, audiences and students while driving positive change in its community. The Clarice nurtures and preserves creative and individual freedoms, acts as a leading cultural change agent and contributes to the future of the arts on campus, locally and nationally.
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UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Kreativity Diversity Troupe Open Mic Night
Fri, Oct 17, 2025 | 7:30PM
Prospective Student Event: Arts, Humanities & You - 2025
Sun, Oct 19, 2025 | 10:00AM
Clarice Presents
Pre-Concert Conversation: Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America
Sun, Oct 19, 2025 | 1:30PM
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‘John and Jim’ Symphony Honors Marriage Equality with its Future Increasingly in Doubt
PBS News highlights the piece performed by the National Orchestral Institute this June.
Jared R. Rawlings Named Director of UMD’s School of Music
An esteemed music educator and scholar, Rawlings brings a visionary approach to leadership, learning and equity.
Dance Review ‘A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham’ at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Read the review in Maryland Theatre Guide.
Performing without a conductor is an impressive feat for any large ensemble, but the boundless intuition and near-telepathic accuracy of the NOI Philharmonic will take your breath away!
"Paper Pianos," performed and produced by the highly acclaimed Alarm Will Sound ensemble, is an evening-length multimedia work that theatrically explores displacement, longing and the optimism of refugees.
Pick up a baton and experience conducting the University Chorale, or stop by the beloved Instrument Petting Zoo to try your hand at an instrument!
The School of Music's Maryland Opera Studio presents The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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