Written by Marcus Gardley, Directed by Michael Socrates Moran, Prod. by Oakland Theater Project. From the beloved playwright of black odyssey and screenwriter for The Color Purple comes an extraordinary tale of friendship between two Black women and their families, from their wartime work in the Oakland shipyards to the fulfillment of a dream: their […]
Written by Noël Coward, Directed by Tom Ross, Prod. by Aurora Theatre Company. Intimate. Insatiable. Insufferable. Five years into their supposedly happy marriages, Jane and Julia’s perfectly polished lives are thrown into delightful disarray when an old flame announces his sudden return to London. Past passions and present desires – along with generous helpings of
Written by Tony Kushner, Directed by Michael Socrates Moran, Prod. by Oakland Theater Project. New York City, 1985. Amid the AIDS crisis, two couples struggle to navigate their relationships, families, careers, illness, and dreams. As the lives of Prior, Louis, Joe and Harper unfold, so do questions of cosmic justice. In Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning American
Written and Directed by Ebony Noelle Golden, Prod. by The Apollo & The National Black Theater. Feverish floods and land-quakes unfold when three mother trees vanish. The mystical and magical town of Here is swept up in the undertow. Sisters Teeny and Vetiver spiral. The people must decide. Return to their ancestors’ ways or perish
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Written by Tanya Barfield, Directed by Darryl V. Jones, Prod. by Aurora Theatre Company. Intimate. Intrepid. Inspired. Tanya Barfield’s two-man play puts Lewis, a high-achieving Black mathematics professor, in conversation with three generations of his ancestors over the course of a fevered dream or night of sleepless delusion as he wrestles with his own sense of
Written by William Shakespeare, in a modern verse translation by Amy Freed, Directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone & L. Peter Callender, Prod. by African American Shakespeare Company. “The Taming of the Shrew” or “Kiss Me Kate” or “10 Things I Hate About You” or even “The Timing of Us Two” (I just made that one up!)… however you perceive
Written by Amelio Garcia, Directed by William Hodgson, Prod. by Oakland Theater Project. A WORLD PREMIERE Ancient myth and the post-modern present collide in the genre-bending queer love story written by Amelio Garcia, co-conceived by OTP’s William Hodgson and Lisa Ramirez and inspired by Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, and
Written by Dominique Morisseau, Directed by L. Peter Callender, Prod. by African American Shakespeare Company After two incidents at his public school which culminated in two suspensions, Nya, a public-school teacher, takes her son, Omari, out of the inner-city public school and enrolls him at Fernbrook, a private school far from home. When a third
Written by Martyna Majok, Directed by Emilie Whelan, Prod. by Oakland Theater Project Oakland Theater Project is thrilled to stage the Bay Area Premiere of Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony-nominated play Cost of Living, directed by Emilie Whelan (A Streetcar Named Desire; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus). Cost of Living deftly challenges the
Musical Direction by Dr. Yvonne Cobbs, Stage Direction by Margo Hall, Prod. by Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Gather the family for the return of Soulful Christmas! While conjuring a winter wonderland filled with upbeat music, joyful lyrics, and high-energy performances, some of your favorite Bay Area powerhouse singers will blow the roof off the house. Led by the incomparable Dr.
