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FAT HAM
Genre: Performing Arts
"...Juicy—a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity—is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother’s wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father’s premature death? ..."
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DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
Genre: Performing Arts
"...the story of all six wives, told in their own (imagined) words, along with a few bits from Henry’s mother and daughters. With a bit of sarcasm and friendly charm, each of these legendary ladies explains how their 16th-century hard-earned lessons (from living with unstable men to enduring stifling Tudor traditions) apply to dating, marriage, and feminism in today’s world...."
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EVENING PLAYS BY RICHARD MAXWELL
Genre: Performing Arts
"...Evening Plays collects three new dramas that are a response to Dante’s Divine Comedy by award-winning playwright Richard Maxwell. The Evening centers around three archetypal barflies who together form an elegy of universal loss. Samara is a mythic tale of redemption that follows a messenger through a bleak frontier in his quest to collect a debt, though the human cost of the journey may be more than he bargained for. And Paradiso, which takes place in the not-too distant future, describes three great loves: family, country, and God...."
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BROADWAY GOES TO WAR: AMERICAN THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II
Genre: Performing Arts
"...American drama of the 1940s is frequently overlooked, but the plays performed during this eventful decade provide a picture of the rich and complex experience of living in the United States during the war years. McLaughlin and Parry’s work fills a significant gap in the history of theater and popular culture, showing that American society was more divided and less idealistic than the received histories of the WWII home front and the entertainment industry recognize...."
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PHYSICAL LISTENING: A DANCER'S INTERSPECIES JOURNEY
Genre: Performing Arts
"...In Physical Listening: A Dancer's Interspecies Journey, JoAnna Mendl Shaw invites audiences to explore her unusual dance career, a path that took her on a deep dive into the world of horses and equine training. Physical Listening is the deeply personal journey of an artist who at age 74 is still pursuing her passions, bringing an interspecies perspective into the dance world and the sensibility of an artist into the horse world...."
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OUT LOUD
Genre: Performing Arts
"...From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer’s rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world, and the triumphs and perils of creating work on his own terms—and staying true to himself..."
