Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is launching “Wonder/Wall” this month, a new immersive video performance series combining live performance and video projection to create a storytelling experience never before seen at Bay Street Theater.
Each week in July, Bay Street’s courtyard will be transformed into a new experience, featuring four world premieres created by five different artists, whose work has been commissioned by Bay Street Theater and created specifically for this location.
Wonder/Wall runs Tuesdays through Sundays from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. starting Tuesday, July 6, through Saturday, July 31.
Each evening features five individual 15-minute performances starting at 8:30 p.m., which will include a live performance element that takes place within the immersive video world surrounding the audience.
Set primarily on the court at the U.S. Open and punctuated by flashbacks that fill in the players’ histories, "The Last Match" feels like it’s missing a final, climactic scene.
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Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Making the Invisible Visible: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Culture, Art & Activism
With Series of Virtual Offerings in May By Milwaukee Repertory Theater - Apr 26th, 2021 02:39 pm
April 26, 2021 (Milwaukee, WI) – May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Milwaukee Repertory Theater is offering several virtual opportunities to hear from AAPI artists and leaders with Making the Invisible Visible: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Culture, Art & Activism. Given the violent attacks on Asian Americans and in solidarity with #StopAsianHate, Milwaukee Rep is celebrating AAPI culture as part of REP Forward, the theater’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Plan.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has released a streaming world premiere production of
Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!, written by Vivian J.O. Barnes and loosely inspired by the struggles of Meghan Markle and the British royal family.
Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! uses the monarchy to investigate how society s institutions of power affect Black women. Barnes s play is set on the eve of a royal wedding and imagines a meeting between a Duchess who has just given birth to an heir, and a Soon-to-Be-Duchess, whom she is coaching on the rules required to join the family.
The two-hander is directed by Weyni Mengesha and stars Chicago-based actors Sydney Charles and Celeste M. Cooper, who filmed the play in their separate homes, with cameras, computers, sets, props, and costumes shipped to them directly, with the footage then carefully edited together.
Review: Royalty as Horror Show in âDuchess! Duchess! Duchess!â
An uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
Celeste M. Cooper as the Soon-to-Be Duchess marrying into the royal family in âDuchess! Duchess! Duchess!,â a timely play by Vivian J.O. Barnes.Credit.Lowell Thomas
Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!
NYT Critic s Pick
âWere you silent,â Oprah Winfrey asked Meghan Markle, âor were you silenced?â
That transfixing moment from Sundayâs televised interview between the Queen of Empathy and the Duchess of Sussex rang in my ears as I watched, on Monday, a new play, by Vivian J.O. Barnes, that explores the same question in 32 minutes instead of two hours. With uncanny timing and daring theatricality, âDuchess! Duchess! Duchess!â â now streaming from the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago â dissects the phenomenon of Black women who, in exchange for privilege, forf