Rockfire Theatre (Failure: A Love Story, Boom, Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, Cabaret Gameshow Funtime Super Wow!!) and new local company The Radical Buffoon(s) present the regional premiere of Ann Washburn's Mr. Burns: a post electric play directed by Jon Greene (Faustus-Big Easy Award, Sleeping Beauty, Musicians of Bremen, The Spider Queen ).
This production is made possible with the support of ArtSpot Productions and Art Klub and is part of an artistic collaboration with Rockfire Theatre and The Radical Buffoons.
ArtSpot Productions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and an ensemble of artists dedicated to creating meticulously LIVE theater in New Orleans. ArtSpot strives to incite positive change in their community with visually stunning performances and empowering educational programs. ArtSpot productions are a sincere blend of disciplines developed through ensemble authorship, physically rigorous training, original music, interactive sculptural environments, and extended research and rehearsal. Art Klub is an art and culture community center committed to offering a safe, inclusive space, cultivating creativity and engaging communities through artist residencies, performances, events, affordable rehearsal and meeting spaces, classes, workshops and community programming for all ages. Rockfire Theatre was founded in 2015 by Matt Reed, Kevin Murphy, and Mint Bryan. The inaugural production was Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, a co-production with Promethean Theatre Company. Since then, Rockfire has produced an assortment of main stage productions, including Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party by Aaron Loeb, The Santaland Diaries and Season's Greetings by David Sedaris, Boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins. In addition, Rockfire regularly develops and produces smaller, serialized productions, including Cabaret Gameshow Funtime Super Wow!!, Piano Bar, and We Hear You Have Goblins: A Live Fantasy Improv Adventure. Rockfire focuses on producing captivating and entertaining material with heavy emphasis on artist collaboration. Rockfire views itself primarily as storytellers, a primal role of society in which they take great pride.Rockfire's mission statement: Do good theatre and have fun doing it. For more information email rockfiretheatre@gmail.com
The Radical Buffoon(s) is a NOLA based theater collective is devoted to producing plays that are outsize in scope or concept, physically evocative, socially provocative, and couched in humor as a vehicle for storytelling.
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