Uncumber Theatrics Presents WEE BEASTIES This Month
Uncumber Theatrics invites patrons into the Lumintorium to witness Wee Beasties, a shadow play about fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise. Whimsically macabre and fairytale-esque, Wee Beasties revisits the nineteenth century landscape of a Typhus epidemic at the dawn of the “Golden Age of Microbiology.”
Quantum Theatre Launches NearBuy Initiative To Support Neighborhood Businesses
Quantum Theatre has announced the launch of its newest initiative a?' NearBuy, a partnership supporting restaurants and businesses local to the neighborhoods that will host its 2020-2021 season. The year-long initiative, which harnesses the power of Quantum's community-minded audience members, was brought to life through a community development grant awarded to Quantum Theatre from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
City Theatre Announces Details of MOMENTUM '18
The annual Momentum Festival of New Plays at Different Stages will close the 2017-18 City Theatre season with four days of cutting-edge drama, hilarious comedy, music-fueled storytelling, and a chilling new thriller.
World-Premiere Comedy Draws Line Between Tinder & Art!
Milo de Venus is a world premiere play by Brian Pope, featuring local actors Joanna Getting, Hazel Leroy, Jalina McClarin, Max Reusing, and Mike Zolovich, and directed by Shannon Knapp. It is the inaugural production of a new theatrical collective Non-State Actors. In the play, a young artist (McClarin) spends money she doesn't have to pay for an art class from a famous local visual artist (Getting) only to find out that the man (Reusing) she has been messaging on Tinder is the class's model.
Throughline Theatre to present CLOUD 9
The first act of Cloud Nine revolves around a British family in colonial Africa. Clive, the patriarch, rigidly maintains that his family perfectly embodies Victorian values but reality is more complex than he would like to admit. Act Two takes place in 1979 but features several of the same characters as Act One, thus highlighting the differences (and surprising similarities) of the Victorian and modern eras.