GOOD TROUBLE (Excerpts)
By VTDance/Vincent E. Thomas
May 9 & 10
VTDance/Vincent E. Thomas presents Excerpts of GOOD TROUBLE.
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” (John Lewis)
The dance project GOOD TROUBLE is an artful and ‘necessary’ work to ignite, instigate, investigate, and inspire dialogue and actions to strengthen the soil and soul of America. Join the journey with new excerpts of GOOD TROUBLE.
Showtimes:
Saturday, May 9 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, May 10 @ 2:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors/Artists: $20
Students: $15
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Learn More: Listen to an interview with WBJC/91.5FM’s Gavin Witt and Judith Krummeck. (Click here)
From Music in Words
ENOCH ARDEN
Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Music by Richard Strauss
Transcription for string trio by Molly von Gutzeit
May 15 – 17
The narrative poem ENOCH ARDEN was published by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON in 1864 during his tenure as England’s poet laureate. The poem tells the emotionally charged story of a fisherman-turned-merchant sailor who becomes lost at sea, and it gives its name to the legal precedent whereby a person can remarry in the event of a spouse’s absence and presumed death. In 1897, RICHARD STRAUSS set the poem as a recitation for speaker and piano. These performances mark the world premiere of a transcription for string trio accompaniment by Molly von Gutzeit.
JUDITH KRUMMECK, Speaker
NIKITA BORISEVICH, Violin
BENJAMIN VON GUTZEIT, Viola
MOLLY VON GUTZEIT, Cello
*Running time: 75 minutes with a brief intermission
Showtimes:
May 15 @ 7:30pm
May 16 @ 7:30pm
May 17 @ 3:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Seniors: $25
Students: $20
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THE VIEW UPSTAIRS
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Max Vernon
Iron Crow Theatre
May 29 – June 14
THE VIEW UPSTAIRS is a fiercely original, soul-stirring tribute to queer history, community, and resilience. With a lush, genre-blending score by Max Vernon, this boundary-pushing work transports audiences to 1973 New Orleans and into the Upstairs Lounge—a vibrant gay bar and haven for queer joy, chosen family, and radical self-expression.
Inspired by the true story of the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ+ community in U.S. history prior to the Pulse Nightclub tragedy, THE VIEW UPSTAIRS reclaims a moment in our collective history many tried to erase. It invites us to gather in solidarity with those we lost, and challenges us to confront what allowed the world to look away.
Showtimes:
May 29 @ 8pm
May 30 @ 8pm
May 31 @ 3pm
June 5 @ 8pm
June 6 @ 8pm
June 7 @ 3pm
June 12 @ 8pm
June 13 @ 2pm
June 13 @ 8pm
June 14 @ 3pm
Tickets:
Available soon
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Learn More: Listen to an interview with Timothy Nelson and WBJC/91.5FM’s Gavin Witt. (Click here)
From IN Series
THE SONG OF SAKUNTALA
Music by Timothy Nelson
Texts by Sarojini Naidu Rabindranath Tagore, Vidyapati
Direction and Dance by Hari Krishnan
June 19 – 21
With its story taken from India’s most famous dramatic work, Kalidasa’s 5th century play SHAKUNTALA, itself made into an opera by composers such as Alfano and Schubert, this new opera by IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson fuses Western baroque instruments with Indian classical instruments to create a “dance-opera” on the themes of love, loss, and redemption. Its libretto is formed from the texts of formational Indian poets from across centuries, as well as the sacred Mahabharata words.
Imagined in the still of a concert of Indian classical music, it promises an evening like a “single song, permutated across the hours, in a mood of evocation and remembrance and longing illuminated by swirling, dizzying aspiration – meditation, yearning, whispering, calling, chanting, talking and touching late into the night.”
Featuring: Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Teresa Ferrara
Showtimes:
June 19 @ 7:00pm
June 20 @ 7:00pm
June 21 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $35
Students: $25
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ROUND TIME
By In Flight Theater
June 25 – 28
Round Time is a striking and soulful aerial performance born of the urgent present from aerialist, Mara Neimanis (Air Heart, Naomi’s Flight, Swing). With performance partner Morgan Mincer, Neimanis creates a duet for two generations of airborne women, bearing aloft audio testimonies from community voices of women of many ages.
Together, Neimanis and Mincer explore old cycles and new dynamics, as generations of women, 30 years apart, lift one another-fly one another!-in troubled times. Pure visual poetry to make your heart sing.
Created as a commission for The Cherry Arts in NY, with a grant from The National Endowment for The Arts and The NY State Counsel of The Arts. Featuring direction by Claire Marie Mannle (SITI Company) and aerial sculpture by Tim Scofield.
Showtimes:
June 25 @ 7:30pm
June 26 @ 7:30pm
June 27 @ 2:00pm
June 27 @ 7:30pm
June 28 @ 2:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $25
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PHARAOH: EGYPT’S WOMAN KING HATSHEPSUT
Written by Tim Hogan
Directed by and Starring Michal Roxie Johnson
August 8
Driven by ambition and a call from the gods, Hatshepsut, a woman who lived 3,500 years ago, defied the odds, claimed the throne from a boy-king, dressed like a man, and ruled patriarchal Ancient Egypt (Kemet) as a female Pharaoh before her memory was nearly erased.
Relive the untold true story of history’s first great woman ruler and her Machiavellian-like rise to power. In an epic biographical One-Woman play featuring a tour-de-force performance by actress Michal Roxie Johnson, embodying 18 distinct roles across every age, class, and gender, the work speaks to universal themes of womanhood, gender identity, and empowerment once thought lost to the sands of time…
Showtime:
August 8 @ 2:00pm
August 8 @ 8:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $15
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