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The Studio Collaborative: HELD2GETHER: SKETCHES ELEVEN Company: Held2gether Dates: Feb. 28, March 1, 2, @ 8pm, 2019. Tickets: $15 Regular $10 Preview Description: Eleven dangerously original comedy sketches, fit to rob the laughter from your person. Company Statement: Held2gether, Improv for Life was created to bring out each individual’s greatest potential through the power … Continue reading HELD2GETHER: SKETCHES ELEVEN
The Studio Collaborative: RULE MY WORLD Company: Karole Foreman & Joey Molina, Producers Dates: March 8, 9, @ 8pm, March 10 @ 2pm, 2019. Tickets: $25 Description: RULE MY WORLD is a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Set in a dystopian future, it incorporates diverse musical genres such as spoken word, pop, … Continue reading RULE MY WORLD
The Studio Collaborative: LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2019 Company: LBP New Works Committee producing Dates: March 29 & 30 @ 8pm, 2019. Tickets: $10 Description: The annual festival nurtures emerging and established playwrights to develop new scripts. Reading 100+ scripts a year, the New Works Literary Committee chooses two top plays to receive a staged reading … Continue reading LBP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL 2019
If the Coen Brothers created a mashup of Shakespearean revenge tale and outrageous comedy, it would be EXIT, PURSED BY A BEAR. Join Nan as she forces her abusive husband, Kyle, to watch her and her over-the-top cheerleading friend, Simon, reenact scenes from their horrible relationship as he’s tied to his La-Z-Boy. Will Nan be … Continue reading EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
In Lauren Yee's comic fairy tale inspired by the Jewish folktales of Sholem Aleichem, we are introduced to a young woman who moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss. Instead, she finds discomfort, displacement, and the realization that she needs more. In this witty and often deeply touching comedy, she finds assistance and guidance … Continue reading THE HATMAKER’S WIFE
In this 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Quiara Alegrîa Hudes, writer of the book for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, introduces us to Elliot, a veteran of the Iraq war. As he struggles to find his place in the world, we are also introduced to the members of an addiction chat room just trying to … Continue reading WATER BY THE SPOONFUL
In this tragic masterpiece by Shakespeare, Othello, a powerful Moorish general, elopes with the Venetian lady Desdemona, inciting his envious friend Iago to put into motion a scheme to end their nuptial happiness through the poison of false accusations, distrust, rage, and eventually murder. With powerful themes of love, jealously, race, and toxic masculinity, the … Continue reading Shakespeare’s OTHELLO
Rediscover the wonders, pains, and joys within “the age of Aquarius.” HAIR celebrates the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory. With an infectiously energetic rock beat, the show explores ideas of identity, community, global responsibility, and peace, as it remains as relevant as ever, examining what it means to … Continue reading HAIR
The Studio Collaborative: IT'S A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS Company: Bravo Company Dates: Dec. 13 & 14 @ 8pm, 2019 Tickets: $20 Description: It's a Wonderful Christmas Carol is a comedy melodrama that parodies your favorite Christmas classics such as "A Christmas Carol", "Its a Wonderful Life", "Frosty the Snowman", "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer", "The Martin/Crosby Christmas … Continue reading IT’S A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS CAROL
The Studio Collaborative: SAMSON AND THE BURNING BUSH Company: SBB Productions Dates: Jan. 10 & 11 @ 8pm, Jan. 12 @ 2pm, 2020 Tickets: $25 Description: Old Testament spoof that centers around Sam Sbalding and his wife Liona whose marriage is on the rocks but thanks to the power of a dream, recovers after Sam … Continue reading SAMSON AND THE BURNING BUSH
The Studio Collaborative: PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS Company: Shoofly Productions Dates: Jan. 17 & 18 @ 8pm, Jan. 19 @ 2pm, 2020 Tickets: $15 Description: Pre-existing conditions. If you have ‘em, most insurance companies won’t touch you. While Tom and Ally navigate married life in the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident, it’s not an issue; they’ve always … Continue reading PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
The Studio Collaborative: MANY MAY NOT RETURN Company: Community Professionals Dates: Jan. 24, 25 @ 8pm, Jan. 26 @ 2pm, 2020 Tickets: $20 Description: A working-class family, in crisis as a consequence of two forces-an an undeclared war (Vietnam) and their economic conditions. A father is proud of his history of fighting a dead intervention … Continue reading MANY MAY NOT RETURN
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