Category Archives: Drama

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

Salt of the Earth at Clarice Smith, Apr 8-9

PuppetCinema presents:
Salt of the Earth

Fri, Apr 8, 2016 . 8:00PM
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre, General Admission.

Audience advisories: This performance contains strong language, cigarette smoking, haze, a gunshot sound effect, loud noises and fog.

A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert; plastic tanks barrel down paper streets; and a faceless, nameless puppet emerges a rebel hero in this work by artist Zvi Sahar. Puppetry and hand-painted miniature sets combine with live filmmaking and projected video feeds, as a Lilliputian universe is created and destroyed before our eyes.

In Salt of the Earth, inspired by the bestselling Israeli novel The Road to Ein Harod by Amos Kenan, Sahar and PuppetCinema show us a dystopic world in which our protagonist — fleeing his country’s latest military coup — discovers the meaning of perseverance, survival, and ultimately, freedom.

General Public: Regular: $25, Student: $10.

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony at Clarice Smith, Apr 1-3

Ghetto Symphony

Fri, Apr 1, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Apr 2, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sun, Apr 3, 2016 . 3:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, General Admission.

There’s something beautiful about being Black in America. This country where we are stripped of basic human rights, a sense of identity, and the freedom of individuality is what makes us the resilient people we are.

Too often are our stories ignored and too often does society dictate what we think. Now it’s time we tell our own story in our own words.

Free, tickets required. Get tickets here.

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5p

American Moor at Clarice Smith, Mar 29, 5pm

American Moor
Written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb

Tue, Mar 29, 2016 . 5:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kogod Theatre, General Admission.

American Moor is a 90-minute solo play written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb, examining the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare’s character, Othello. American Moor is not an “angry black man play.” Rather the diverse audiences that have experienced it echo the piece’s awareness that we see only what we want to see of one another, and that we all long to be wholly noticed and wholly embraced. It is a play about race in America, but it is also about the American theatre, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love. It is an often funny, often heartbreaking examination of the pall of privileged perspective that is ultimately so injurious to us all.

Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor who has spent the majority of his working life on stage and is readily recognized on the streets of New York for several unique character portrayals in television. American Moor is not Mr. Cobb’s first play, but it is the one that is most timely, most truthful, and the one for which he is most suited to perform, for it is a vision of race in America with the entertainment industry as microcosm. And he is now able to reflect upon a lifetime in that industry where no one who was anything like him ever wrote the rules. American Moor is his song to the unheard, unseen other.

Free, tickets required. Tickets do not guarantee admission. To minimize empty seats, we are issuing more tickets than available seats. Arrive early to claim your seat.

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Fur at Venus Theatre, Mar 17-Apr 10

Fur at Venus Theatre, Mar 17-Apr 10

FUR BY MIGDALIA CRUZ

March 17 – April 10, 2016
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Fur is the story of Citrona, a hirsute young woman who is purchased by Michael at a sideshow to be his bride. Michael has a fetish for animals and runs a pet shop in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles which has become a giant sand pit. He hires Nena, an animal trapper to catch and bring food to the caged Citrona. But Citrona falls in love with Nena who’s in love with Michael. A tragi-comic triangular retelling of the Beauty & the Beast where the beast wins.

Tickets are $20. Buy tickets here.