Mariana Sanchez

The Neo-Political Cowgirls Present A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM This Month

The Neo-Political Cowgirls will be presenting a work-in-process, first launch performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream (As Seen Through The Sleepy Eyes Of A Young Girl) at Mulford Farm, 10 James Lane, East Hampton at 7:30 pm July 28th and 29th, 2022.

Creative Teams and Casts Announced For 2022 Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The imminent start of the 2022 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season—Artistic Director Nataki Garrett’s first full season—marks a celebratory return to repertory producing. The 2022 lineup features eight on-stage plays and musicals, from classic Shakespeare to works by some of today’s most exciting playwrights.

Portland Opera Presents The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Opera THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Portland Opera continues the 2021/22 season with The Central Park Five, composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Richard Wesley. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2020, The Central Park Five is set in New York City in the late 80s—when five Black and Latino teenagers were falsely accused of rape and assault and coerced into confession. Their high-profile case spiraled out of control, turning the accused, and their families, into victims of prejudice and grave injustice.  

Waterwell Announces JUNE RITES !! On Governors Island

Waterwell has announced the world premiere of June Rites !!, an outdoor dance-theater piece celebrating the arrival of summer. Co-created by Lee Sunday Evans, Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Mariana Sanchez, June Rites !! will be performed at Picnic Point on Governors Island from June 18 to June 27, 2021.

BWW Review: THIS IS WHO I AM at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

This Is Who I Am is a compelling emotional tale, defying our expected limits of technology to bring us a deep, profound human connection over a video call. With clever, layered uses of language and deeply poignant discussions, Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play shows us that human connection isn’t just possible under these circumstances, but able to thrive.

World Premiere of Amir Nizar Zuabi's THIS IS WHO I AM to Open in December

Amir Nizar Zuabi's This Is Who I Am, directed by Evren Odcikin, opens officially on Sunday, December 13, at 4pm EST. This world premiere run of the play-all performances of which take place live-now runs December 5 - January 3.

PlayCo, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and More Present Amir Nizar Zuabi's THIS IS WHO I AM

PlayCo, as the kickoff to its 20th year, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, the Guthrie Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will present Amir Nizar Zuabi's This Is Who I Am, directed by Evren Odcikin, November 29 - December 27.

Soho Rep in Association with Ma-Yi Theater Company Will Present Hansol Jung's WOLF PLAY

Soho Rep., in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company, will present Hansol Jung's mischievous and affecting new work, Wolf Play, directed by Dustin Wills, March 17-April 19. When a young South Korean boy-represented onstage as a puppet operated by a 'wolf'-is 're-homed' via a website chat room, he and his brand-new parents (a professional boxer, Ash, and Ash's wife, Robin) undergo the strange, fraught process of becoming a family.

BWW Review: Alice Birch's ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE, A Verbal Chamber Trio Themed On A Neurological Legacy

'The text has been 'scored',' states the script for British playwright Alice Birch's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning Anatomy of a Suicide, a fascinating, tragic piece about a neurological legacy shared by three generations of women, now receiving a fine American premiere at the Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater.

BWW Review: MANHATTA at Yale Rep

Manahatta,' the impressive world premiere from Mary Kathryn Nagle at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT, history repeats itself with devastating consequences in lower Manhattan as the violent removal of the indigenous Delaware Lenape people in colonial times is echoed by the heartless destruction of the nation's economy by Wall Street four centuries later.