Soul Justice Project: Pendulum will premiere at Mesa Arts Center with performances Thursday, May 18 and Friday, May 19, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. Pendulum is an evening-length theatrical performance that follows the lives of seven Americans living in the margins of Democracy post-election night. Tickets are $15 and are on sale now at Mesa Arts Center's Box Office, at www.mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) will host three free Hip Hop Poetry Open Mic events this spring on March 7, April 4 and May 9. All Hip Hop Poetry Open Mic events will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Black Swan on the OSF campus (15 S. Pioneer St., Ashland, OR 97520). Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.; space is limited.
Mesa Arts Center this week announced several additional performances in the Performing Live Series for the 2015-16 season. These include Simply Three on Feb. 19, Spoken World featuring Dahlek Braithwaite on Feb. 26, United States Air Force Band of the Golden West on Mar. 10, Men are From Mars, Women Are from Venus LIVE! Mar. 17-20, Arlo Guthrie on April 1, and Spoken World featuring Matthew "Cuban" Hernandez and Alyesha Wise. Tickets are on sale now at the Mesa Arts Center box office, and available at mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
Broadway-bound Hamilton star Daveed Diggs will perform in a one-night-only staged reading of the new play THE LIMP today, June 10, in New York. Diggs is fresh off of Lortel Award and Theatre World Award wins for his dual Hamilton roles (Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson).
Broadway-bound HAMILTON star Daveed Diggs will perform in a one-night-only staged reading of the new play THE LIMP on Wednesday, June 10, in New York. Diggs is fresh off of Lortel Award and Theatre World Award wins for his dual HAMILTON roles (Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson).
Hip-hop will meet perfromance art in SPIRITRIALS, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Sean San Jose, when the production plays the Alexander Bar and Cafe's Upstairs Theatre for two performances only this May.
Award-winning hip hop poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph's powerful Word Becomes Flesh returns to Chicago, re-invented with an ensemble cast from a new generation, in a one-night-only performance, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall at the University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th Street, tonight, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. Featuring a series of performed letters to an unborn son, Word Becomes Flesh uses spoken word, dance and live music to document nine months of pregnancy from a young single father's perspective.
Award-winning hip hop poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph's powerful Word Becomes Flesh returns to Chicago, re-invented with an ensemble cast from a new generation, in a one-night-only performance, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall at the University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th Street,Tuesday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. Featuring a series of performed letters to an unborn son, Word Becomes Flesh uses spoken word, dance and live music to document nine months of pregnancy from a young single father's perspective.
