GLOWBERON, WE'RE GONNA DIE and More Set for OBERON's April Lineup

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) second stage and club theater venue on the fringe of Harvard Square, announces offerings for OBERON Presents -- GLOWBERON and WE'RE GONNA DIE; as well as other events to be presented at OBERON during April - May -- including Visiting Artists, Artists in Residence, and Usual Suspects.

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GLOWBERON
As part of OBERON Presents, GLOWBERON is a series of avant-garde cabaret in partnership with the Afterglow Festival, founded by Quinn Cox and John Cameron Mitchell, and based in Provincetown, MA. The festival runs once a month through April 1, 2016, and features hit solo performers, including: Molly Pope, Erin Markey, Sage Francis, and Stella Starsky, artists who put their own stamp on music, and storytelling.

STELLA STARSKY - BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN BARONESS
OBERON Presents
Friday, April 1 at 7:30PM
Tickets $25

As the final installment of the GLOWBERON series, Stella Starsky shines in her at turns moving and side-splitting solo play that explores both the mundane and the mystical implications of modern womandom free from motherhood. From her humble beginnings as a tweenage donut-maker in smalltown Massachusetts, through a me-generational gauntlet of discoballs, body dysmorphia, designer dreams, and debatable dates with destiny, Starsky illumines our universal quest for value and validation alighting on some divinely human and hilarious realizations along the pro-creative path toward planetary parenthood. With guest star Brian King and musical director Joe Gnerre. Directed by Maria Silvaggi.

WE'RE GONNA DIE
OBERON Presents
April 20 - 29
Tickets from $25

Written by Young Jean Lee
Original Music by Young Jean Lee, Tim Simmonds, Mike Hanf, Nick Jenkins, and Benedict Kupstas
Directed by Shawn LaCount

It's time to get real and rock out about the one thing we all have in common: We're Gonna Die. Playwright Young Jean Lee (Straight White Men, The Shipment) blends storytelling, stand-up, music, and theater into a song cycle that lets us know we may be miserable anticipating our demise, but at least we won't be alone. OBERON presents Company One Theatre's production of this smart and life-affirming contemplation of the inevitable starring Obehi Janice with band members: Steve Sarro, Ethan Selby, Shahjehan Khan, and Thom Dunn. Through stories and pop songs, We're Gonna Die will break your heart and put it back together again.

Additional programming for We're Gonna Die:

Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30PM
Studio Sessions - We're Gonna Die Remix
Urbano Project (29 Germania Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130)
FREE Snacks & $5 Drinks

The band's all here and ready to rock out about the one thing we all have in common... Join the cast of We're Gonna Die at Urbano in Jamaica Plain for a night of revelry - and a remixed preview performance!

More additional programming dates coming soon!

ROOSEVELVIS
A.R.T. Season
May 6 - 29
Tickets from $25

Created by the TEAM
Directed by Rachel Chavkin

On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of the painfully shy meat processing plant worker, Ann, and over what kind of man or woman Ann should become. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain.

Mixing athleticism with artistic experimentation, celebrated theater troupe the TEAM has explored American myths from Gone with the Wind to Howl with a zany, irreverent theatricality. The TEAM returns to A.R.T. after their production Particularly in the Heartland was featured in the 2010 Emerging America Festival.

RoosevElvis is currently sold-out. If additional seats become available including standing room for any performance, this information will be published online on May 1.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR APRIL AND MAY:

ESH CIRCUS ARTS SPRING SHOWCASE
Sunday, April 3 at 8PM
Tickets $20

See the students of Esh Circus Arts' adult classes show off their work! Come party with Esh Circus Arts and be mesmerized by rock stars on silks, flying singers, aerial poetry, contorting creatures, and much much more, chaperoned by the devilishly charming MCs. Come run away with the circus!

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training
April 6 - 8 at 7:30PM
Tickets $20

Adapted for the Stage by Rick Sparks & Gary Carter
Based on the novel by Horace McCoy
Directed by Wojtek Klemm
Featuring actors from the A.R.T. Institute Class of 2016

Horace McCoy's 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? springs to new life in Rick Sparks and Gary Carter's new dramatic adaptation. Set during the Great Depression, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? steers the audience into a brutal dance marathon where hopefuls scramble through exhaustion and humiliation to win an economic reward, and with it, a desperate hope for life-changing possibility.

Waltz music swells. Horses trudge out onto the floor and dance...This topical production blurs the time difference between the Great Depression and now. Intensified by OBERON's immersive atmosphere, Klemm's physical style -- quivering, sweating, dashing, leaping, wriggling-shows America's dizzying dance of desire and survival at its cruelest.

SHE
Composed by Liz Kantor
April 14 - 15 at 7:30PM & 10PM
Tickets $15 - $30

Inspired by the stories of Harvard women, SHE is an original musical revue that is by women, about women, and for everyone. Developed by Harvard students in collaboration with a cast and crew of over twenty Harvard women, SHE celebrates modern womanhood. Join in for an evening of song, movement, media and humor as we explore pregnancy scares, female friendships, peeing your pants in public, and more!

THE DONKEY SHOW
The Long-Running Hit
Presented by A.R.T.
Every Saturday night
Tickets from $25

Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus' celebrated smash hit continues its 7th Season at OBERON every Saturday night, bringing you the ultimate disco experience -- a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The party rages on the dance floor to all the best 70s hits as the show unfolds around the audience. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own disco fever fantasy!

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OBERON is located at 2 Arrow Street at the corner of Mass Ave. in Harvard Square, Cambridge. For more info and tickets visit cluboberon.com.

OBERON is the American Repertory Theater's second stage, a destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square. In addition to offering work from the A.R.T's main season, OBERON is also a thriving incubator for emerging artists to imagine new projects that could only exist in this exciting club-theater environment. Thousands of artists and performance groups bring work to the space each year. OBERON regularly features local performers including aerialists, beat poets, food artists, tap dancers, gender-bending sketch troupes, comedians, hula-hooping burlesquers, and pop-and-lock human statues to name a few.

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