Mentoring from experienced people and classes in theater skills mark the theater as a place to learn while making a difference. Bowie Community Theatre, which performs at the Bowie Playhouse, ties with Pasadena Theatre Company as the region's second oldest community theater. Pasadena Theatre Company, too, would not have survived without dedicated people, as Sharon Steele, company president, explains. We've hung in there through 23 years of trials and tribulations. Right now our costumes are stored in one place, we're rehearsing at Woods Memorial Church, our first show is in Humanities Hall at the Community College and we're moving to the brand new Chesapeake Center for the Performing Arts in Anne Arundel's Brooklyn Park section.
Students look at theater as academics as well as performance.
We want our students to participate and move on, so we put ourselves on the line trying to provide them with necessary theater experiences. The student body and its association support this theatre. Calvert County residents support us with their time and donations. Patuxent's actors raise funds for schools and firehouses by splitting the profits from their shows. Wandering troubadours, they perform wherever they can find a venue in the county.