Performance, Dance, Concert
Directed by Jakari Sherman
Step Afrika!
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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.
Performance Art
Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True
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
Performance
Circus
Directed, Written and
Choreographed by Gypsy Snider
The 7 Fingers
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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
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.
Trans Scripts, Part I:
The Women
Play
Written by Paul Lucas
Directed by Jo Bonney
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
January 19 – February 5, 2017
A compelling performance piece based on interviews with transgender women.