San Francisco's Word for Word will present a new theatrical adaptation of Dave Eggers' children's book, THE EYES & THE IMPOSSIBLE, targeting families and young audiences in the Bay Area.
TuYo Theatre’s “La Llorona on the Blue Line”, written by Mabelle Reynoso and directed by Maria Patrice Amon, is an immersive production that blends myth and memory into a powerful, time-jumping ghost story—where La Llorona doesn’t just wail, she bears witness.
TuYo Theatre to present the world premiere of La Llorona on the Blue Line, written by Mabelle Reynoso (¡Lotería: Game On!, TuYo Theatre’s Pastorela 2.0) and directed by TuYo Theatre’s co-artistic director Dr. Maria Patrice Amon (TuYo Theatre’s Pásale Pásale, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Hoops). Check out photos from the show.
TuYo Theatre will present the world premiere of La Llorona on the Blue Line, written by Mabelle Reynoso and directed by TuYo Theatre's co-artistic director Dr. Maria Patrice Amon. Learn more!
Discover the cast of STONEHEART by Georgina Escobar at the Latino Theater Company Encuentro 2024. This production by Camino23 Collective highlights authentic Latino representation in the arts. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Directed by Gendell Hing-Hernández, CITIZEN opens on October 21. This Word for Word and Z Space production tells the tale of Salvador, born in the U.S. and raised in Mexico, the son of an American Indian mother and a Mexican father.
Z Space—one of the nation's leading laboratory for the development of new works—has named Vanessa Flores Chacko (she/her) as the new Associate Artistic Director of Word for Word Performing Arts Company.
The Custom Made Theatre Co. (Ciera Eis, Interim Artistic Director) closes its 23rd season with the new musical “Shoshana in December” with book by Rose Oser, lyrics by Weston Scott, and music by Matt Fukui Grandy (writers of the smash hit Tinderella in 2018) directed by Vanessa Flores with music direction by Kiki Lipsett.
Word for Word's Off the Page Staged Reading Series 2022 begins on July 25 with Black Box, by Jennifer Egan, directed by Vanessa Flores on the Z Below Stage in San Francisco. Word for Word's Off the Page staged reading series is the public's first look at pieces Word for Word is considering for upcoming productions.
Word for Word and Z Space, in collaboration with Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience present a performance of the story Boys Go to Jupiter by Danielle Evans. Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
Word for Word and Z Space, in collaboration with Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience present a performance of the story Boys Go to Jupiter by Danielle Evans. Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe The cast for Boys Go to Jupiter features Tre’Vonne Bell, Ciera Eis, Evan Held, Joel Mullennix*, Aidaa Peerzada, Brennan Pickman-Thoon*, Ije Success and Courtney Walsh*. *AEA.
Susan Harloe, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Word for Word Performing Arts Company, a theater company that performs short works of fiction in their entirety, has announced she will step down from her role in October 2021.
The UC San Diego Department Of Theatre And Dance presents the 2021 Wagner New Play Festival.
San Francisco's Indie theater, FaultLine Theater has announced the appointment of three new Co-Artistic Directors, Brady Brophy-Hilton, Ciera Eis, and Vanessa Flores.
The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents Man In Love by Christina Anderson and directed by Stephen Buescher. Midwestern Metropolis during the Great Depression is severely segregated. If you're from 'The Spread' you are trying to survive another eviction notice, soup line, or night on the street. If you're from the segregated Black area called 'The Zoo' you are literally fighting for your life. The bodies of Black women are turning up dead all over the city. It's not even safe to stay inside. Christina Anderson's play Man in Love is about race, love, and terror, all living side by side.
Z Space presents its second annual Problematic Play Festival, a staged reading series. The festival presents ambitious and provocative plays that have been rejected by other theaters or could otherwise be seen as too 'problematic' to produce.
Gregory Nava and Linda Shaheen were elected to the LA Opera board of directors on Tuesday. The board additionally approved a resolution that affirms its longstanding commitment to cultural equity and inclusion. LA Opera, the fourth largest opera company in the nation, also announced the addition of several new leaders to its administrative staff.
A.C.T.'s community space-sharing initiative created in 2012-provides free performance space to local performers and arts organizations SAN FRANCISCO (July 25, 2018)-American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Associate Artistic Director Andy Donald announced today the recipients of ArtShare, A.C.T.'s community space-sharing initiative, for the 2018-19 season.
Artist Yunique A. Saafir and curator Corinne Werder are collaborating for My Body: Not for Consumption to provide a counter narrative from the dominate normalization of sexual violence. With this unique collaboration between photographer, curator and community-we aim to show that a naked body is not an inherently sexual object.
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