Review: A Perfect Storm of Weather and Racism in shadow/land nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ephraim Birney and Maggie Bofill in
The Sound Inside Pedro Bermudez
Broadway may be closed, but virtual theatregoers are about to get as close as possible to seeing a current Tony-nominated play. TheatreWorks Hartford will present an on-demand streaming production of
The Sound Inside April 11â30, starring Maggie Bofill and Ephraim Birney.
Written by Adam Rapp,
The Sound Inside follows Yale creative writing professor Bella Baird and her brilliant-but-guarded student Christopher Dunn. When Bella faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with Charlie, setting in motion a haunting look at what one person can do for another.
The production is co-directed by TheaterWorks Hartford Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Pedro Bermudez. Serving on the creative team are set designer Lawrence E. Moten III, costume designer Alejo Vietti, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, and composer Billy Bivona with sound record
WILLIAMSTOWN â All the worldâs a stage, but for Tony Award-winning theater company Williamstown Theatre Festival, its hometown in the Berkshires will become the stage this summer.
After a yearlong hiatus from live, in-person theater because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival has announced a return to live performances this summer â but instead of performing indoors, in the theaterâs traditional home on the campus of Williams College, at the â62 Center for Theatre & Dance, performances will be held outdoors.
In what is being called âThe 2021 Live Season in Williamstown,â the season will include three productions mounted around Williamstown, including a production at The Clark Art Institute.
Michael Arden
(Photo: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
After last year s Williamstown Theatre Festival season was put on Audible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 season will welcome back live audiences. Shows will play outdoors with social distancing and safety prioritized.
The season will kick off on July 6 with the world premiere of
Outside on Main: Nine Solo Plays by Black Playwrights, which will run through July 25. Guest curated by
Slave Play s Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara, this series of three shows celebrates Black artists and their voices through theatrical storytelling. Each performance consists of three of the nine 30-minute world premieres, created by Ngozi Anyanwu, France-Luce Benson, J. Nicole Brooks, Guadalís Del Carmen, Terry Guest, Ike Holter, Zora Howard, NSangou Njikam and Charly Evon Simpson. Written for actors of color, these productions will be helmed by directors Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones and Awoye Timpo on the front lawn of t
Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza has won the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play
Cullud Wattah. The award comes with a $25,000 prize and a signed, numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning.
Cullud Wattah is an Afro-surrealist play about three generations of Black women living through the current water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Dickerson-Despenza also won a Princess Grace Award for the work, which was scheduled to have its world premiere in the summer of 2020 at the Public Theater, directed by Candis C. Jones.
Cullud Wattah was also scheduled to have a production at the Victory Gardens Theater in 2021.
Dickerson-Despenza is currently the Public s Tow Playwright-in-Residence. The Public is currently producing her latest work, an audio play called