The company that received international media attention for their all-female production of The Tempest and all-male production of Hamlet is returning with its first mixed-gender outdoor play featuring full nudity: a production of The Rover, a popular Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn. The company is thrilled to return with a new production that celebrates body freedom and empowerment, and that showcases the work of a less frequently produced female playwright.
The company that received international media attention for their all-female production of The Tempest and all-male production of Hamlet is thrilled to announce the cast of its first mixed-gender outdoor play featuring full nudity: a production of The Rover, a popular Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn. The company is excited to begin rehearsals of the production, which celebrates body freedom and empowerment, and which showcases the work of a less frequently produced female playwright.
Waiting in line under the sun in hopes of landing a theatre ticket is no one's idea of fun, but for over 60 years people have been doing just that as they lounge in Central Park hoping to see performers like Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald or Meryl Streep in one of the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park productions. This year, they've recently closed Othello, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and a musical version of Twelfth Night with music and lyrics by Shaina Taub will play the Delacorte from July 17 to August 19.
The Michigan Shakespeare Festival, the Official Shakespeare Festival of the State of Michigan, has announced their casts for the 2018 MSF Season consisting of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure and Aphra Behn's Restoration Comedy The Rover.
The Michigan Shakespeare Festival, the Official Shakespeare Festival of the State of Michigan, has announced their casts for the 2018 MSF Season consisting of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure and Aphra Behn's Restoration Comedy The Rover.
The company that received international media attention for their all-female production of The Tempest and all-male production of Hamlet is returning with its first mixed-gender outdoor play featuring full nudity: a production of The Rover, a popular Restoration comedy by Aphra Behn. The company is thrilled to return with a new production that celebrates body freedom and empowerment, and that showcases the work of a less frequently produced female playwright.
The Arvada Center has announced its 2018-2019 season, a diverse line-up of plays and musicals. The three musical and four play season includes a world premiere play, two regional premieres, and a Broadway smash-hit. The season also marks the third year of the Black Box Repertory Theatre, a company of actors who will perform three of the Black Box Theatre's four plays in repertory. The 2018-19 Theatre Season is sponsored by Lutheran Medical Center.
It's Carnival time in Naples. A band of banished English cavaliers is looking for adventure and love, and so are the women they meet. Who's chasing whom? Everyone meets their match. Full of seduction, sword fights, and bawdy humor, The Rover is credited with launching the phrase "the battle of the sexes."
What does it mean to be a woman in the times of the #metoo and #timesup movements? What would our historical sisters have to say about it? From Sappho and Hildegard von Bingen to present day, this classical cabaret explores some of the innermost thoughts, desires, dreams, and experiences of women through music and poetry. Opera on Tap makes its' Flea debut as an Anchor Partner, presenting a diverse program of classical song in their signature fresh, heartfelt, and entertaining style.
Kickshaw Theatre, Ann Arbor's pop-up professional theatre, presents Or, a comedy by Liz Duffy Adams, February 15 - March 4 at the Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth on Airport Blvd., Ann Arbor.
Lansing - The Michigan Shakespeare Festival is thrilled to announce an All-Star Michigan Cast for the ICHABOD, a new play by accomplished playwright Joseph Zettelmaier. The reading will take place at 3 pm on Saturday, October 28, at the Library of Michigan in Lansing. The events of ICHABOD take place in a tiny tavern just outside the village of Sleepy Hollow. Twenty years earlier, the titular Ichabod had an encounter with the Headless Horseman and he has at last returned to the town that cast him out.
For one night only, travel back to 1679 Rome to party with The Shrill Collective for Aphra Behn's brilliant battle of the sexes that confronts love, lust, and the perils of the patriarchy... all still relevant over three centuries after it was written.
Wagner College Theatre launches its 2017-18 Stage One Season with Liz Duffy Adams' playful comedy Or, based on the real life of Britain's first professional English female playwright Aphra Behn. Directed by WCT alum Brian Sgambati '97, the production runs October 10 through October 15.
For one night only, travel back to 1679 Rome to party with The Shrill Collective for Aphra Behn's brilliant battle of the sexes that confronts love, lust, and the perils of the patriarchy... all still relevant over three centuries after it was written.
Red Bull Theater today announced this season's REVELATION READINGS, following a kick-off with the one-night-only benefit performance of Marivaux's The Triumph of Love, starring Celia Keenan-Bolger, Arnie Burton, Clifton Duncan, Carson Elrod, Zach Grenier, Kathryn Meisle, and Molly Ranson.
The Drama Book Shop, the premiere performing arts book shop in the country, currently located at 250 West 40th Street in NYC's theatre district, will commemorate its 100th birthday with an all day celebration on Monday, October 2nd, 2017 open to the public.
Kickshaw Theatre, Ann Arbor's pop-up professional theatre, is pleased to announce their 2017-18 season. With two full productions, a musical revue fundraiser, and staged readings, this season will be Kickshaw's most ambitious since the company's founding in 2015. We've been encouraged by the positive audience response to our productions, and the growth of our organization says Executive Director Jane Griffith. This season will showcase our commitment to producing high-quality professional theatre with stories that beg to be told live!
Spy or poetess? Lust or love? Wrong or righteous? History or comedy? Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company and Simple Machine present the brilliant and bawdy Or, by Liz Duffy Adams, September 8 through 23 at the newly-opened black box at Chelsea Theatre Works in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
RSC Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, today announced the Summer 2018 season in Stratford-upon-Avon, and launched the fundraising campaign Stitch In Time for the restoration and redevelopment of the company's historic Costume Workshop.
