Ages: ALLDates: March 26 - April 16, 2022Time: Evening performances @ 7:30/8 PM / Matinees @ 2 PMTickets: Start at $45 ($45-$71)Location: The Norris Center, 755 8th Avenue South Naples, Florida 34102Contact: info@gulfshoreplayhouse.org To purchase tickets: https://www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org/ Description: American investment banker Nick Bright is being held for ransom by a militant group in Pakistan. In exchange for a shot at freedom, he strikes a risky deal with his captors to teach them how to manipulate the global market. Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Ayad Akhtars suspenseful and provocative political thriller explores the consequences of fanatical devotion to both the scripture and the dollar. By Ayad Akhtar
American Ballet Theatre, 2021 Broadway Backwards, and More Stream This Weekend
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Edward Torres
Torres has directed multiple productions at the San Diego, Calif.-based Old Globe, including
Familiar,
Native Gardens, and
Water by the Spoonful, as well as two readings for the Powers New Voices Festivals. He recently directed a podcast version of
Macbeth for NEXT Podcast and Play On Shakespeare. Torres directed the premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Victory Gardens Theater and Teatro Vista, which won two Jeff Awards. He’s also the artistic director emeritus at Teatro Vista.
Led by artistic director Barry Edelstein, the Old Globe 2021 cohort includes Torres, Meg DeBoard, Yolanda Marie Franklin, and Awoye Timpo.
Mar 29, 2021 Watch Party
Time: 1957. Place: New York City. Six actors gather in a Broadway theater to rehearse an anti-lynching play, written and directed by white artists. Newcomer John believes in the sanctity of theater, ingénue Judy insists there s only the human race, and veteran actress Wiletta is torn between getting along and delving into the authentic truth of her character. As the actors get on their feet and small talk turns into discussion on motivation and theme, tension begins to run high, ultimately reaching a point of no return. A boulevard comedy with undeniable dramatic force, Alice Childress s masterpiece would have been the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway if she had agreed to the producers demands that she soften its message. Funny, incisive, and poignant, this play-within-a-play is an unflinching examination of white fragility and liberalism in the theater industry.
New Federal Theatre Celebrates Women s History Month with An Online Reading Series
These readings will be free and accessible from NFT s website.by BWW News Desk
Hospice
Directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring award-winning actresses
Saturday, March 13 at 7:00 PM, streaming until March 15
When Jenny Anderson left her lover and moved into her grandmother s unoccupied house to await the birth of her first child, the last person she expected to show up was her gravely ill mother, expatriot poet Alice Anderson, whom she has not seen for twenty years. Leaving her activist husband and ten year-old daughter, Alice moved to Paris in 1965 to pursue her dreams of writing, free from American racism and the demands of being the devoted wife of a Civil Rights leader. She returns home hoping to die as she has lived, by her own rules. But Jenny is determined to find answers to questions she has waited a lifetime to ask and Alice is forced to come to terms with the effect of her flight on the daug
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