By Tarell Alvin McCraneyDirected by Margo Hall October 13–16, 2022Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA A spirited, young runner with a promising future, Oya is faced with an impossible choice: stay home to care for her ailing mother or follow her dreams of becoming a track star. Caught between expectations and desires, loyalty and passion, Oya must […]
a play by Lynn Nottagedirected by Jan Hunter WINNER OF THE BEST PLAY AWARDFROM THE AMERICAN THEATRE CRITIC AND NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE Wearing her heart on her sleeve while sewing intimates for her clientele, Esther is the talented, proud, but shy Black seamstress in turn-of-the-century New York 1905. She has built savings for herself
Poem written by Donna Zephrine Directed by Jeremy Karafin & Kelly Teaford Narration by Stacey Bell & Jenny Pacanowski Audio Production, Engineering, & Sound Design by Ray Archie of Brooklyn Sound Lab Animation by Nico Schiavone Produced by Poetic Theater Productions, Kindred Tone, and Notes to the Soul
Directed by ShawnJ West, with Musical Director Yvonne Cobbs A Soulful Christmas returns for a holiday celebration blending fun, witty dialogue and your favorite music that will have you on your feet! As Yvonne Cobbs and ShawnJ West unite forces once again, let us come together at the historic Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Through poetry, song, media, and movement Vanessa Rappa and Poetic Theater Productions presents a theatrical experience that sets the audience members in the middle of a dreamscape. Somewhere strange yet familiar, the piece explores isolation, abandonment, and the search for connection, beauty, and certainty. A choreopoem in structure, audiences will follow a being who re-enters
Poetic Theater Productions and Musical Theatre Factory created a portal through adrienne maree brown’s NY Times bestselling book Pleasure Activism through words, voices, and movement. Calling back to our 2019 collaboration Feeling Good, this 2021 virtual event gathered interdisciplinary artist-activists who center pleasure in their work. This ritual featured the talents of Troy Anthony, Aya Aziz, Truth Bachman, é Boylan, April
Poetic Theater Productions is honored to co-produce with BRIC The Brobot Adventure: Wrath of the Wackness, the follow up show to The Brobot Johnson Experience, where an alien Hip Hop android named Flobot Owens, travels through space and time to help humans be better humans. In Wrath of the Wackness, Flobot Owens, legendary Brobot MC, returns to “abduct” an
Join Poetic Theater Productions and Musical Theatre Factory for a one-night-only concert happening, Feeling Good: Pleasure as Ritual Resistance on August 21st at 8:00pm at Judson Memorial Church. Creating a portal through adrienne maree brown’s NY Times bestselling book Pleasure Activism, this night is a gathering with artist-activists across performance disciplines who center pleasure in their work
At the October 2017 Audio Engineering Society’s national convention in New York, HEAR Now presented a special ‘reading’ of Shakespeare MacBeth Act IV, Scene 1, while at the same time shaping some staging around a binaural microphone head, that plays with proximity, intensity, and arrangement. The result was a combination of live theatre-going and full-cast audio
