Clarence, in a Pause: A Listening Party at The Ancram Center for the Arts
Dates: 5/30/2026 - 5/31/2026
📍 Theatre: The Ancram Center for the Arts
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Clarence, in a Pause: A Listening Party is a work-in-progress Play Lab showing created by MacArthur Fellows Heather Christian (composer) and Taylor Mac (librettist). The piece is a tongue-in-cheek quasi-baroque oratorio in which a concerned citizen confronts an imagined version of Clarence Thomas, reaching for radical empathy in the face of political polarization. Following the concert, Christian and Mac will lead a conversation about the ideas raised in the piece and teach a song from the show, with the goal of de-escalating polarizing rhetoric through song. The showings are free to the public and are supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of Defying Boundaries: MacArthur Fellows at 45.
Cast and Creative Team for Clarence, in a Pause: A Listening Party at The Ancram Center for the Arts
Cast
Todd Almond
Ensemble
Taylor Mac
Ensemble
Lauren Clay
Ensemble
Stephanie Salzman
Ensemble
Darrah Cloud
Ensemble
Heather Christian
Ensemble
Creative Team
Heather Christian
Composer
David Cromer
Director
Paul Ricciardi
Co-Director
Taylor Mac
Librettist
Darrah Cloud
Book
Stephanie Salzman
Music and Lyrics
Jeffrey Mousseau
Co-Director
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