THEATRICAL AND VIDEO PRODUCTION DESIGNS
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Having Our Say
February 5 - 25, 2010 Corner Theater, DeSoto Texas, African American Repertory Theater.
adapted by Emily Mann opens as 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany welcome us into their Mount Vernon, New York, home. As they prepare a celebratory dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday, they take us on a remarkable journey through the last hundred years of our nation's history, recounting a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from their rich family history and careers as pioneering African-American professionals. Their story is not simply African-American history or women's history. It is our history, told through the eyes of two unforgettable women as they look not only into the past, but also ahead into the twenty-first century.
Boom
February 12 - March 13, 2010 Kitchen Dog Theater, McKinney Contempary Black Box
Directed by: Christina Vela
Texas Premiere
"Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's play flips from pants-around-the-ankles comedy to hipster Twilight Zone takeoff... boom is imaginative and easy to like." –The New Yorker
The Play:A marine biologist hosts a journalism student in his subterranean biology lab for an erotic "casual encounter." As disaster looms upon the planet, the fate of their "date" takes on monumental importance. boom is an epic and intimate comedy of evolution, loneliness, and how to survive.
The Playwright: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom, Hunter Gatherers and Colorado. Hunter Gatherers received both the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and the Will Glickman Prize (2007). In 2008, boom was produced at Ars Nova, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Seattle Repertory Theatre. His newest play, T.I.C., premiered with Encore Theatre Company in 2009.
Sideshow
April 8-10, 15-17, 2010
University Theater, University of Texas in Dallas.
8 p.m.
Side Show is the musical narrative of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, who make a change from being a circus act to becoming famous stage performers in the 1930s. Written by Bill Russell (book and lyrics) and Henry Krieger (music), the composer of Dreamgirls, Side Show opened on Broadway in fall 1997 and was nominated for four Tony Awards® in 1998. Featuring popular numbers, “I Will Never Leave You” and “Who Will Love Me As I Am?”
Set in depression-era 1930s and culminating at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at the Cotton Bowl, Side Show examines what it means to be different and find your place in the world. Side Show is directed by Kathryn Evans, with Winston Stone directing an all-student orchestra.
