Written by Alexis Scheer
Videographry by Carrubba
Premiering February 1-6
A digital manifestation of magic and intention: Starting on February 1, experience a five-day journey and guide to create your own personal spell for healing and transformation that culminates in a collective gathering and casting of energy at precisely 2:06 PM on February 6.
Please Welcome Our Guest: A personality test/performance
Written and performed by Liza Birkenmeier
Directed by Trish Harnetiaux
Birkenmeier, a playwright without a personality, gives you a personality assessment. With the help of a surprise guest star and an experimental survey, maybe sheâll guide you toward a better understanding of your unique self.
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Read on for some recent theatre headlines you may have missed in today s news.
Aleshea Harris Awarded the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The OBIE Award-winning playwright of
Is God Is and
What to Send Up When It Goes Down has been named the recipient of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, from the Hermitage Artist Retreat in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work to be presented at Asolo Repertory Theatre in 2023. The prize is awarded annually, rotating between the fields of music, theatre, and visual art. Past winners in theatre include Martyna Majok, Nilo Cruz, John Guare, and Craig Lucas. This year s finalists, who will also receive a Hermitage residency, are Donja R. Love, Nikkole Salter, and Whitney White.
Chosen from among four finalists by a panel of other theater professionals, playwright Aleshea Harris said winning the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize feels like “ultimate pat on the back.”
Presented by the Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Greenfield Foundation, the prize, previously known as the Greenfield Prize, is a $30,000 commission for a new work that rotates each year among creators of theater, music and visual arts. Harris joins previous playwriting winners Craig Lucas, John Guare, Nilo Cruz and Martyna Majok.
Harris, the Obie-winning playwright of “Is God Is” and “What to Send Up When it Goes Down,” has been winning attention and numerous other honors off-Broadway and in theaters around the country for works that build off personal experiences to tell broader stories in an often gritty style.
Playwright Aleshea Harris Awarded 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected OBIE-winning playwright Aleshea Harris as the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, given this year in the artistic discipline of theater. Harris will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2023 in collaboration with the Hermitage’s presenting partner, Asolo Repertory Theatre (Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director).
The Hermitage’s Artistic Director Andy Sandberg notes that Harris was selected by a distinguished jury that included jury chair Mandy Greenfield1, a member of the Hermitage Curatorial Council and the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival (Massachussetts); Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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To bring live theater back during the pandemic, Miami New Drama s 7 Deadly Sins uses storefronts as stages.
Stores closed because of COVID-19 have become Miami New Drama s new storytelling venues.
So you think Las Vegas corners the market on sheer wickedness?
Don t you believe it.
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Or at least one section of Miami Beach will be, until Jan. 17. That s the tentative closing night for Miami New Drama s 7 Deadly Sins: Temptation in the Magic City.