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8pm Thursday, Friday &Saturday, 3pm Sunday
$25 adults, $10 students (Fridays, Saturday, Sunday);
$18 (Thursday)
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The African Company Presents Richard III
by Carlyle Brown.
Runs April 28 to May 15, 2011 |
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134 years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus,
108 years before Martin Luther King, Jr was born, and 6 years before
enslavement of blacks fully ended in New York state, a theater
company of free black actors was passionately performing
Shakespearean adaptations and original works in front of packed
houses in 1821 Manhattan. The African Company, as they were known,
then dared to open their production of Richard III on the same night
and right next door to another Richard III production by New York
City's leading theater of the time starring English tragedian Junius
Brutus Booth. The African Company's refusal to close down and
capitulate to the pressure of their white competitors is depicted in
this provocative and empowering drama.
“The personal and the historical, the comic and the angry propels…a
powerful story.” –
The Washington Post |
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July 7 - July 31
Penny Penniworth
by Chris Weikel |
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A fast-paced and loving satire of Dickensian literary conventions,
this hilarious parody is Charles Dickens' "lost" epic as mounted by
a short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company
aspirations. Set in Victorian England, this madcap adventure tells
the story of young Penny Penniworth whose childhood love is driven
out of town after nearly killing a wealthy businessman. Soon, Penny
finds herself penniless, left alone to make her way through a
convoluted maze of strange relationships, anonymous benefactors and
ultimate justice. This cult-favorite fringe comedy also channels D.H.
Lawrence, Jane Austen, Mel Brooks, Monty Python and Sid Caesar.
“Anyone ever tortured by a Charles Dickers novel will find lots and
lots to laugh at in this parody.” – The New York Times |
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