Evan’s Virtual Variety Show
The November Variety show features a variety performer who performs globally & on cruise ships, a magician who has performed all over the country, and an aerialist who is so good that she now teaches other aerialists! Post-show talkback with the performers, ask them anything you like!
Evan’s Virtual Variety Show, online Sunday Nov. 12- 2pm.
If you are ready for a post-election, mid-pandemic break, the Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center may have the
Mustard Seeds- The Underground Railroad-not everybody made it to Canada!
University Heights Center is hosting several small theatre online productions among them Mustards Seeds, produced by Pork Filled Players, a co-production with The Hansberry Project: Mustard Seeds, by Michelle Tyrene Johnson, is directed by acclaimed director Valerie Curtis-Newton,
Set in the contemporary world, “Mustard Seeds” unfolds when researchers camping out on the bank of the Missouri River encounter the unborn souls, who did not make it to the Wyandotte County, Kansas stop of the Underground Railroad.
Mustard Seeds Produced by Pork Filled Productions. Sat Nov. 14 -7 pm. Tickets:https://pork-filled.ticketleap.com/mustard-seeds/dates/Nov-14-2020_at_0700PM
Historical Recreation of the Emmett Till Murder
The play, the Carolyn Bryant Project re-creates one of the greatest miscarriages of justice perpetrated on African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Emmett “Bobo” Till, a 14-year old Chicago youth, walked into a store in Money, Mississippi to purchase 5-cents worth of bubble gum from Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year old, white mother of two. Within a few days of this interaction, Till’s beaten and bloated body was found tied to a cotton-gin fan in a shallow part of the Tallahatchie River. Bryant’s husband Roy and his brother JW Milan would be acquitted of Till’s murder by an all-white male jury, only to confess to the murder a year later in a Look Magazine article.
What happened in those fateful minutes shared between Bryant and Till in the store? Creators Nataki Garrett and Andrea LeBlanc compile historical transcripts, video imagery, and re-imagined encounters to expose what lies beneath the exchange between Carolyn Bryant and Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, in a play called The Carolyn Bryant Projecté
The Carolyn Bryant Project. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Nov-9 til Nov 22,
Free-online: centerfornewperformance.org/streaming.
The talented writer Ann Petry came to Harlem from Connecticut in 1938 and joined the Harlem Renaissance movement. Although she
Spectrum Dance Theatrer’s Response to Covid
The Film Lyric Suite is a Kafkaesque dance work that explores the mental and emotional effects and impact of extended isolation on 12 individuals told in 11 vignettes.
It is about loneliness. It is a psychological, interior world of the mind – fearful, delusional, and at times paranoid; a reality that is distorted and personal. Lyric Suite is 12 solos, one for each for the 12 dancers that make up the Company of Spectrum Dance Theater.
The Lyric Suite Performance Pass is $20 and grants viewers 3-day access to the production. Performances will be available on the Spectrum Dance Theater website to 2020/21 Season Members and Pass Holders only.
Lyric Suite, Specturm Dance Theater. Nov 13-15, Registration Necessary.
Tickets: https://spectrumdance.org/product/3-day-pass-lyric-suite/
Like the BBC’s Book at Bedtime- A short story read aloud
As part of The Seagull Project’s Great Souls: An Evening of Short Stories and Performance, Claudine Mboligikpelan Nako read Langston Hughes’ One Friday Morning. Written in 1941, it recounts the experience of disappointed hopes, due to the rising expectations, caused by the Great Migration. In many ways the experience of the high school student in the story, is a metaphor for the Great Migration.
