Now streaming online, Changemakers, a collection of 20 original, two-minute plays and musicals inspired by community leaders, activists, and front-line workers who have fought for change over the course of the past year.
Thu, 04/29/2021
LAWRENCE Through a series of 20 short scenes and songs, Changemakers shares stories inspired by community leaders, activists and front line workers who have fought for change. This collaborative work, written by commissioned playwrights working alongside students, makes its world premiere Thursday, April 29, as the University Theatre’s season finale. Changemakers showtimes are 7:30 p.m. April 29-30 and 2:30 p.m. May 2 online and for a limited, in-person audience. Changemakers was co-written by members of the cast in collaboration with 20 professional playwrights commissioned for this production. Among the KU alumni playwrights are Bill Russell and James Still. This production is directed by Markus Potter, assistant professor of performance, and Darci Jens Fulcher, visiting assistant director, with musical direction and live accompaniment by Ryan McCall.
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Imagine Hercule Poirot poking around Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new production, he does just that. The legendary literary sleuth Poirot is reincarnated to solve a Steel City murder.
“North of Forbes,” a new commission by local playwright Tammy Ryan, is based on Agatha Christie’s first novel. It will stream from 7 p.m. Thursday through 10 p.m. Sunday as part of PPT’s Public PlayTime benefit series, “Classics N’at.”
Benton Greene portrays Poirot.
Christie’s 1920 tale, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” is set during World War I, where Poirot a Belgian war refugee is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of an older woman in her English countryside estate.