SPANKING MACHINE Will Be Performed at the Marsh in September and October
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 14, 2021
Marga Gomez returns to The Marsh San Francisco stage for live performances of Spanking Machine, her by turns funny, intense, and heart-rending memoir of growing up brown and queer in Washington Heights. Childhood pranks, Devil Dogs, sadistic nuns on poppers, assault, and suppressed memory play their parts in Gomez's shift across gender, latitudes, and generations.
Syracuse Stage Expands Artistic Leadership Team
by A.A. Cristi
- Jul 16, 2021
Syracuse Stage Artistic Director Robert Hupp today announced an expansion of the senior artistic staff. As of September 1, veteran New York based director Melissa Crespo becomes the theater's associate artistic director. Kyle Bass, who currently holds that position, will transition to a new role as the theater's first resident playwright and will remain a member of the theater's senior artistic staff.
KIM LOO GETS A REDO to be Presented as Part of New Ohio Theatre's ICE Factory 2021
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jun 29, 2021
Kim Loo Gets a Redo is an original piece that takes history and shifts the paradigm to the AAPI perspective. Lisa Helmi Johanson and Kimberly Immanuel take the audience through their personal reflections on the intertwining of the lesser-known history of the Kim Loo Sisters and the erasure of AAPI women both past and present.
BWW Review: “MASTER HAROLD”…and the Boys at Syracuse Stage
by Timothy Treanor
- Jun 17, 2021
It is 1950, and on a rainy South African afternoon in the St. George’s Park Tea Room, Hally (Nick Apostolina) is becoming himself. He was a boy – one prone to arrogance and self-pity, certainly but vulnerable, and capable of sweetness and hope. But now he is becoming a man – a brutal man, “MASTER HAROLD”, who embraces the world’s ugliness and claims it as his own. He does this by spitting in the face of Sam (L. Peter Callender), a Black man who had sheltered him to that point from the world’s worst, including his own father. In this primal way Master Harold joins the oppressors as a way of not joining the oppressed.
Syracuse Stage Hosts In-Person Gala Next Week
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 4, 2021
Syracuse Stage brings patrons and supporters back together for the first time since March 2020 at its Annual Gala on June 10 at Springside Farm in Pompey, New York.
New Immersive Performance Uses Theater To Influence Policy Making
by A.A. Cristi
- May 24, 2021
A future where everyone has a home is the “nerdy and raucous vision” of “The Most Beautiful Home . . . Maybe,” a timely new immersive performance led by Mark-N-Sparks (Los Angeles based artists and activists ashley sparks and Mark Valdez).
BWW Review: I AND YOU at Syracuse Stage
by Timothy Treanor
- May 6, 2021
There is an astonishing turn of events toward the end of I and You, but let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about Walt Whitman instead.
Whitman was a revolutionary who overthrew poetry. He trashed the self-conscious, hyperstylized European tropes which had dominated the art and substituted something purely American: a rough, colloquial, muscular free verse which tumbles over itself like the streams and brooks of his Long Island home.
I AND YOU to be Presented by Syracuse Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Apr 27, 2021
Written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Melissa Crespo, “I and You” marks a return of artists and actors to performance on stage at Syracuse Stage. The approximately 90 minute play will be performed in the Arthur Storch Theatre on a fully realized set and captured on video by Black Cub Productions.
LeLand Gantt Stars in RHAPSODY IN BLACK Presented by The Cincinnati Arts Association
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Apr 16, 2021
The Cincinnati Arts Association will present LeLand Gantt in his one-man show, Rhapsody in Black, streaming May 4-17, 2021. Written and performed by LeLand and developed at NYC’s Actors Studio by Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons, the show explores his personal journey to understand and eventually transcend racism in America.
Keenan Scott II, THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN Playwright, Selected as TED2021 Fellow
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 30, 2021
Playwright Keenan Scott II, whose new play Thoughts of a Colored Man will have its Broadway premiere at the Golden Theatre in the upcoming season, has been selected as a TED2021 Fellow, joining a class of 20 remarkable individuals who are collaborating across disciplines to spark positive change around the world.
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