Welcome Brothers! You have entered the hallowed halls of a Spanish Benedictine monastery where two of your fellow Brothers await you. They have a lovely day planned for you; it’s not every day they receive visitors, you know! Created and performed by Annie Luján and Veronica Hortigüela, MONKS is a journey into the chaotic, filled…
Prophetess – Tarragon Theatre Margaret, the Chair of her English Department — and the Queen of Etymology — snaps awake, haunted by a nightmare of spiders. As she confides in her love, Henry, over breakfast, that very same spider from her dream manifests — speaking, growling, and cursing her. And so begins the first day…
Dancer (A Musical In Ten Furlongs) - Oh What A Ride! Productions Dancer (A Musical In Ten Furlongs) is the story of Northern Dancer, the “horse nobody wanted” — the too-small, too-ungainly, too-willful thoroughbred who overcame doubt, injury and history to become the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1964, and capture…
O, thou well-skilled in curses, stay awhile, And teach me how to curse mine enemies. Margaret Anjou has spent her life learning about words: where they’ve come from, how they’ve transformed, and why they hold so much power. But when words are used against her, what can she do to stop their destructive power. Ho…
It begins with a bang. The sounds of gunshots and shouting ring out through the theatre as Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness starts its journey. It’s 1964, and this is one of the worst riots Harlem has ever seen. An artist sits alone in his studio, observing the chaos outside his window. But when…
Have you seen the ads for the new Meta AI “Muse”? I’ve been bombarded with them lately. “It’ll help sort out your inbox and clear your schedule” the ads claim, “it’ll shop for you!” Hang on, shop for me? Like Aye Caesar? Yes, just like Carolyn Fe’s existential thriller, a fiction no longer. Truly a…
Who are you drawn to? Is it people who look like you, or think like you? What about someone who’s charming or vivacious? Or maybe you’re drawn to those you think you can fix, those with “natural deficiencies”? Erin Shields’s To A Flame looks at the perils of being drawn in by someone who might…
When you’re a teenager, the world feels huge and mysterious, and it’s hard to find anyone who will actually tell you what’s really going on. To find anything out, you have to rely on each other. Frank Wedekind’s remarkable play Spring Awakening, deftly adapted and directed by Paulo Santalucia, looks at a group of teenagers…
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space” - Henry David Thoreau, “Walden or, Life in the Woods” Many of us look up to the stars in awe of the vastness of space, but few of us have ever experienced it. But what if the opportunity to fulfill your dream was…
Did you know that in 2009 there were 8 states in the US who were legally allowed to deny women healthcare insurance due to domestic abuse? They saw that abuse as a “pre-existing condition”, forcing women to stay in abusive relationships to save their healthcare plans for themselves and their children. Marin Ireland’s drama Pre-Existing…
