Review: THE SEAGULL at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
by Evan Henerson - Feb 8, 2025
For his production of THE SEAGULL at the Odyssey Theatre, Katzman deploys a mostly solid cast (two of whom are also producers), a talented technical team and a vision. The results are plenty engaging.
THE SEAGULL Announced At Odyssey Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 3, 2025
The Seagull will play performances January 18 through February 9, 2025, in a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre, with two preview performances on January 16 and 17.
Photos: First Look at Hero Theatre's Revival of TEA
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 30, 2022
Five Japanese women learn to adjust to a new life in rural Kansas alongside their American GI husbands following World War II. Hero Theatre presents a revival of Tea, Velina Hasu Houston’s powerful, lyrical exploration of the immigrant experience that has become a modern classic in its nearly four-decade history of production.
Hero Theatre Revives TEA By Velina Hasu Houston For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 23, 2022
Five Japanese women learn to adjust to a new life in rural Kansas alongside their American GI husbands following World War II. Hero Theatre presents a revival of Tea, Velina Hasu Houston's powerful, lyrical exploration of the immigrant experience that has become a modern classic in its nearly four-decade history of production.
BWW Review: BREATHE Takes Philicia Saunders on a Life-Changing Journey
by Ellen Dostal - Dec 20, 2020
Like most solo productions, Philicia Saunders’ BREATHE comes from her own experiences. Unique to her telling however is the method by which she relates that story. Necessitated by a global pandemic that has forced audiences to view theatrical productions from behind a computer screen, Saunders has employed a variety of media to raise engagement with her personal tale.
BREATHE., New Virtual Live Theater Multimedia and Interactive Performance, to Premiere This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 8, 2020
With the recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere of Breathe., a live-streamed multimedia form of art activism and interactive theater event fusing live performance, cinema, and artistic swimming in a hybridized narrative that could only be born during these challenging, yet galvanizing times.
Discover One Black Woman's Awakening In BREATHE
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2020
With the recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere of Breathe., a live-streamed multi-media and interactive theater event, a form of art activism – fusing live performance, cinema, performance art and artistic swimming in a hybridized narrative that could only be born during these challenging, yet galvanizing times.
BWW Review: SWEET LAND Site-Specific Opera by The Industry at LA State Historic Park
by Shari Barrett - Mar 1, 2020
The Industry is presenting its site-specific world premiere of SWEET LAND at the LA State Historic Park near downtown Los Angeles, with the city's skyline seen prominently during the outdoor production. With Music by Du Yun and Raven Chacon, Libretto by Douglas Kearney and Aja Couchois Duncan, the production directed by Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon, unravels narratives surrounding American identity on the site when a new Arrivals ship runs aground on the shore and they encounter a community of The Hosts, those natives to the land. The story is an important one to be told about the history of invaders who have taken over land where indigenous people live, even in our own backyard, and destroyed not only the land but the people who loved it.
Hero Theatre Announces Full Company Of TEA
by Stephi Wild - Feb 18, 2020
Hero Theatre has announced the full company of Velina Hasu Houston's Tea, directed by Rebecca Wear. The play will run from April 10 through May 17, 2020 at the Atwater Village Theatre complex.
Jaclyn Backhaus' MEN ON BOATS Comes to Son Of Semele
by Stephi Wild - Jun 7, 2019
Son of Semele Ensemble announces its upcoming production of Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus, to be performed at the Son of Semele Theater from July 6 - 28, 2019. Ten intrepid pioneers plunge into uncharted waters in a dramatic tale that's both heroic and comic.