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The Black Clown

September 6, 2018 by admin 1 Comment

Cast

Musical, Play, Performance (2018)
Adapted from
Langston Hughes’ poem
by Davóne Tines and
Michael Schachter
Music by Michael Schachter
Directed by Zack Winokur
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
August 31 – September 23, 2018
Featuring Davóne Tines

An exceedingly well crafted and composed, inventively staged, beautifully sung, and brilliantly choreographed adaptation of the poem by Langston Hughes.

The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence

May 4, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Lawrence

Performance, Dance, Concert
Directed by Jakari Sherman
Step Afrika!
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
May 3-6, 2018

An exuberantly varied dance-performance inspired by the series of paintings commemorating the great northern African-American migration of 1910-1930 by noted African-American artist Jacob Lawrence.

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

January 30, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Two Women

Play / Performance
Directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University
January 26 – February 11, 2018

A moving dramatized account, by a group of Nigerian women, of sexism, assault and repression.

Reversible

September 7, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Wheel

Performance
Circus
Directed, Written and
Choreographed by Gypsy Snider
The 7 Fingers
ArtsEmerson
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
Theater District, Boston
September 6 – 24, 2017

An exquisitely conceived, choreographed and performed piece of acrobatic theater – touched lightly with narrative – by the ever-innovative Montreal circus troupe.

17 Border Crossings

April 27, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Philips

Play, Performance
Creation, production design and performance
by Thaddeus Phillips
ArtsEmerson
Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Paramount Center
April 19-29, 2017

A brilliantly written and delivered, and very inventively staged, one-man show about going across international boundaries.

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