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Looking at You

Here arts Center

Off-Broadway, World Premiere

score by Kamala Sankaram
libretto by Rob Handel
directed by Kristin Marting
with Paul An (RAJ), Adrienne Danrich (GEEK), Blythe Gaissert (DOROTHY), Eric McKeever (GEEK), Brandon Snook (ETHAN SNYDER) and Mikki Sodergren (GEEK)

An immersive, techno-noir opera. Nerds at Silicon Hills like to party. They’re in the middle of a celebration at their massive corporate headquarters when you join in the fun. As you order a free drink from the singing, computer-generated assistant built into your table, a swirl of operatic voices, EDM and crime jazz surrounds you. A story of high-tech espionage and sultry romance where Edward Snowden meets Casablanca, Looking at You confronts surveillance capitalism and the erosion of individual privacy in a digitized world.

Appropriate

DOBAMA THEATRE

Regional Premiere

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
directed by Nathan Motta
with Tracee Patterson (TONI), Tom Woodward (BO), Ursula Cataan (RACHAEL), Abraham McNeil Adams (FRANZ), Kelly McCready (RIVER), Ireland Derry (CASSIDY), Jacob Eeg (RHYS) and Miles Pierce (AINSLEY)

When the patriarch of the Lafayette clan dies, the family is forced to descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle accounts. As the three adult children rummage through a mountain of hoarded relics, they spar over a lifetime of junk, past relationship issues, and inherited debts. But when they make a disturbing discovery among their father's possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the volatile, forcing every member to confront their family history and each other. 

Stupid Fucking Bird

Sarah lawrence college

by Aaron Posner
directed by Giovanni Kavota
with Sasha Aronson (CONRAD), Piper Lewis (NINA), Ned Checketts (DEV), Mackenzie Glenn (MASH), Jad Batlouni (SORN), Kasey Britt (EMMA) and Simon Rabatin (TRIG)

An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad struggles to get out from under the shadow of his mother Emma, a famous actress. Meanwhile, his young muse Nina falls for Emma’s lover Doyle, and everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be.

Incendiaries

Ohio City theatre project

World Premiere

developed by the ensemble
conceived & directed by Pandora Robertson
with Wesley Allen, Ashley Aquilla, Laprise Johnson, Daniel McNamara, Valerie Kilmer, Jimmy Green,

Based on the race riots that tore through Cleveland's east side Hough neighborhood in the late 1960s, Incendiaries delves into historical text, trial transcripts and citizen accounts to explore past conflicts between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

This Is Not the Play

cleveland public theatre

by Chisa Hutchinson
directed by Emily Ritger
with Katrice Monae Headd (PLAYWRIGHT), Rebecca Frick (WHITE GIRL 1), Jessica Annunziata (WHITE GIRL 2), Bobby Coyne (THE MAN) and Laura Starnik (WHITE WOMAN)

A gritty, in-your-face comedy that digs into what we naturally turn away from, racism. "This Is Not the Play" imagines a black playwright trying to write a play about white people. The problem is that the characters seem to have minds of their own. The playwright sends in her agent to interrogate the characters and then she tries to intervene as they expose their pathetically racist and patently disempowered viewpoints. Is this the playwright's reflection on racism, or on her own prejudice?

Grounded

DOBAMA THEATRE

by George Brant
directed by Alice Reagan
with Anjanette Hall (PILOT)

An ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns home to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

A Doll’s House

Mamaí Theatre COmpany

by Henrik Ibsen
directed by Christine McBurney
with Anjanette Hall (NORA), Abraham Adams (TORVALD), Rachel Lee Kolis (CHRISTINA LINDEN), John Busser (NILS KROGSTAD), Tim Keo (DR. RANK) and Mary Beck (ANNE-MARIE)

Imagine a devoted wife and mother who makes an unexpected journey to an unplanned exit with a famous door slam heard around the world. Ibsen’s 1870s classic reshaped through a 1937 adaptation by American master Thornton Wilder takes audiences on a suspenseful ride to the edge of a gaping precipice of personal discovery that has a potential gain so great, that even a mother’s love and a wife’s duty can be swayed to sacrifice.

Standing on Ceremony: the Gay Marriage Plays

cleveland public THEATRE

by Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moisés Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, José Rivera, Paul Rudnick and Doug Wright.
conceived by Brian Shnipper
directed by Craig J. George
with Wesley Allen, Molly Andrews-Hinders, Maryann Elder, Dana Hart, Val Kozlenko, Matt O’Shea and Beth Wood

Back by popular demand, "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" is a powerful collection of short plays that celebrate love and explore the (still-evolving!) landscape of marriage equality in the USA. Written by eight of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, "Standing on Ceremony" “holds a magnifying glass to the highs and lows, joys and fears, courage and silliness, of people bucking trends and making history” (NY Observer) with wit, humor and heart. 

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