Written by Yasmina Reza, Directed by Emilie Whelan, Prod. by Shotgun Players. A long friendship between three men implodes when one purchases an expensive piece of modern art. What is it all worth? Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, ‘Art’ is well known for its celebrated wordplay. Under the direction of Emilie Whelan, […]
Written by Drue Robinson, Directed by Timmia Hearn DeRoy, Prod. by UC Berkeley, TDPS. This modern-verse translation of Aristophanes’ classic comedy blends heightened language and 21st-century sensibilities to explore the power of the sex strike. Now set in a futuristic, drag-influenced, underground bar, this production will address issues of bodily autonomy, sexual and gender agency,
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
