Human Race Theatre Presents EVERYTHING THAT'S BEAUTIFUL Beginning This Week
While it often is the focus of news reports and television talk shows, raising transgender children is rarely the subject of a play. Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder freely admitted “the stories I find the most compelling are often stories that force me to step out of my comfort zone and look at a subject through a new lens.”
Human Race Welcomes Audiences Back To The Loft Theatre With LOOPED
Looped, the biting comedy by Matthew Lombardo, takes a much-rumored event and imagines what might have actually happened, knowing Bankhead's outrageous personality, searing wit and ability to deliver a one-liner that takes no prisoners. Looped will bring audiences back to LIVE theatre in the Loft, August 5 – 22, 2021.
Human Race Presents Virtual Reading Of GARDEN POLITICS
The Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton's premier professional theatre company, is excited to announce a virtual reading of a play by Michael Slade, Garden Politics, will be made available on the streaming platform Broadway On Demand from November 13 - 18, 2020.
Human Race Playreading Goes Virtual With Local Playwright And Benefits The Foodbank
While the COVID-19 pandemic may have closed down live performances, The Human Race has not let it stop them from presenting their Playreading Series - this time as a virtual reading of a new play by Yellow Springs playwright Robb Willoughby called Look Into My Eyes. This streaming reading will benefit The Foodbank, a vital organization solving hunger in the Miami Valley - especially now!
First Standings - Voting Opens for the BWW Dayton Awards!
Voting is NOW OPEN and the first votes are in for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!
The Human Race Kicks Off Its 33rd Season With LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL
In 1959, Billie Holiday, or a?oeLady Daya?? as she was called, performed one of her final shows in a run-down bar in South Philly. In Robertson's award-winning play, Holiday engages the audience with salty, often humorous reminiscences of her troubled life as a travelling performer in a segregated south. With the help of her piano man, Jimmy Powers, she lets music tell her story, sharing soulful, heart-wrenching and bawdy songs from her memorable canon including: a?oeStrange Fruit,a?? a?oeGod Bless the Child,a?? a?oeWhen a Woman Loves a Man,a?? and a?oeTaint Nobody's Business If I Do.a??