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By Felicia Cooper
March 6 – 8
A New Woyzeck is erected as a pea-eating cam girl for the 21st century using puppetry, projection, and pop music. A high intensity trip through expressionism and indie sleaze, this performance explores the depths of surveillance, power and who holds it.
Felicia Cooper is a Minneapolis-based artist working puppetry and performance. Her work has been seen at Dixon Place, LaMama Theater’s Puppet Festival, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Full Moon Puppet Show, In the Heart of the Beast Theater, and more. Her work has been supported by The Tri M Foundation, The National Humanities Center, the National Puppetry Conference, the Connecticut Sea Grant, the Heinz Foundation, the Pennsylvania State Arts Board, and others. She has held artistic residencies with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, The Bell Museum, the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance, Open Eye Theater, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, folkLAB, the New Hazlett Theater, and others. As an extension of her social practice, she conducts contextual research. She holds an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut.
Showtimes:
Photo by Richard Termine
March 6 @ 7:30pm
March 7 @ 7:30pm
March 8 @ 2pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $15
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REALLY QUITE A LOT OF MECHANISMS
By Alex and Olmsted
March 12 – 29
REALLY QUITE A LOT OF MECHANISMS is a darkly comedic puppet show set in the not too distant Now when nations are at war, bad things happen to good people, and dropped toast always lands butter side down.
Life is illogical but you know what isn’t? Mechanisms! The Lever! The Pulley! And, O! Hail the Inclined Plane!
Life is full of chaos and confusion but, good people, take solace in the knowledge that just beneath the world we see, there are…Really Quite A Lot of Mechanisms.
Showtimes:
March 12 @ 7:30pm (Pay-What-You-Can)
March 13 @ 7:30pm
March 14 @ 3:00pm
March 14 @ 7:30pm
March 15 @ 3:00pm
March 19 @ 7:30pm
March 20 @ 7:30pm
March 21 @ 3:00pm
March 21 @ 7:30pm
March 22 @ 3:00pm
March 26 @ 7:30pm
March 27 @ 7:30pm
March 28 @ 3:00pm
March 28 @ 7:30pm
March 29 @ 3:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission – $25
Students, Seniors & Artists – $15
March 12 (Pay-What-You-Can)
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From IN Series
FOR WOMEN SERVING TIME
Music by Adrienne Torf
Text by Fatemeh Keshavarz
Directed by Timothy Nelson
Musical Direction by Adrienne Torf
April 10 – 12
Persian-American poet and scholar Fatemeh Keshavarz and jazz pianist and composer Adrienne Torf come together to make a new piece of opera-theater that fuses Faure’s Requiem, jazz elements, and Brechtian theatrical traditions in a powerful contemplation of the human experiences contained in “ female incarceration in America”.
This extended poem-opera sheds light on the lives and resilience of women in the U.S. prison system, their hopes, dreams, fears, and day to day experiences, offering a voice to a population often overlooked.
Six acclaimed local performers join the composer herself, leading an instrumental ensemble from the piano, to animate the important original work.
Showtimes:
April 10 @ 7:30pm
April 11 @ 7:30pm
April 12 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $35
Students: $25
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From Baltimore City College Drama Club Presents
A FEW GOOD MEN
By Aaron Sorkin
April 16 – 19
When two Marines are accused of murdering a third, their trial snowballs into a showdown pitting military hierarchy against individual morality. Aaron Sorkin’s modern classic A Few Good Men portrays this gripping courtroom drama with ingenious dialogue, whip-smart humor, and explosive intensity
Showtimes:
April 16 @ 6:00pm
April 17 @ 3:00pm
April 18 @ 6:00pm
April 19 @ 1:00pm
Tickets:
Adults: $7
Students & Children: $5
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ESCENAS FLAMENCAS
From Canvas to Life
By Furia Flamenca Dance Company
April 25
ESCENAS FLAMENCAS brings the world of flamenco to life by turning iconic oil paintings into live performances. Each painting represents a different flamenco style. First the scene appears as a still image, full of color and mood. Then the dancers break away from the canvas and carry the style forward with movement, rhythm, and emotion.
The production is created by Furia Flamenca and The Flamenco Workshop. Choreography and dance are performed by Estela and Daniel Paredez from Furia Flamenca. The music is brought to life by Alma and Paul, with the special collaboration of Bruno Lucini, percussionist and drummer from the Latin jazz band Downtown Tumbao.
Together they shape a show that feels both artistic and electric. Each cuadro grows from brushstroke to dance, from silence to guitar, voice, and percussion. The result is a unique espectáculo filled with power, passion, and the spirit of flamenco in its purest form.
Showtime:
April 25 @ 2:30pm
April 25 @ 7:00pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $25
Seniors & Artists: $20
Students: $15
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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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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:
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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 @ 7:30pm
June 20 @ 7:30pm
June 21 @ 2:30pm
Tickets:
General Admission: $35
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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