WITCHES, BITCHES, AND DIVAS! Comes to A.R.T.'s OBERON

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) Second Stage and club-theater venue on the fringe of Harvard Square, announces Witches, Bitches, and Divas! to be presented at OBERON on February 23rd, 2019 at 7pm. Tickets are available at https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/witches-bitches-and-divas/.

Performer and creator Christina Pecce teams up with music director/pianist Steve Bass and his band, Nick Francese on the bass and George Darrah on the drums, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Witches, Bitches, and Divas! WBD has seen on the stages of Feinstein's/54 Below in NYC, Club Café in Boston, and The Den Theatre in Chicago among others.Songs from your favorite standards, musicals, and operas are given a fresh spin to keep you enchanted and bewildered. This is a night of cross-over comedy you do NOT want to miss. Celebrate iconic roles, both onstage and off, but beware...this program is sure to put a spell on you!

Praised for her "astounding vocal expressivity" and "soaring full voice", Christina Pecce is a singing-actress who crosses over the genres of opera, musical theatre, jazz, and performance art. She was most recently seen in Jesus Christ Superstar with Chicago Lyric Opera (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Production, North American Premiere). Her cabaret series Witches, Bitches, and Divas! has been featured at Feintstein's/54 Below in NYC, Boston's Club Café, and The Den Theatre in Chicago. Additional credits include Chicago Fringe Opera (Helen Vaughan/The Great God Pan - world premiere); Fiddlehead Theatre (Show Boat); The Company Theatre (title role/Mary Poppins, Vivienne/Legally Blonde); NextDoor Theater (Mrs. Segstrom/ A Little Night Music): Fort Worth Opera (Frasquita/Carmen, Mother's Ghost/Voir Dire - world premiere); and Boston Opera Collaborative (Anne/To Hell And Back, Armida/Rinaldo). Christina was also a featured performer in the U.S. premiere of Lee Mingwei's Sonic Blossom, a performance art piece featured at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.