Today’s Highlights:
After Midnight, by Jack Viertel, directed by Jay Santos, featuring Yusef Seevers, Porscha Shaw, Nalica Hennings , Nehemiah Hooks, Nicholas Japaul Bernard, Trina Mills, Madison Willis, Brian Davis, Iris Beaumier and Jason Holley, with Savannah Cooper, Alysha Morgan, Stanley Martin, and Lamont Brown, opens at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Company.
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Off-Broadway’s Theater for the New City‘s 13th annual Dream Up Festival will run Aug. 24 – Sept. 14, directed by Michael Scott-Price.
Casting and additional information TBA.
The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances. The event does not seek out traditional scripts that are presented in a traditional way. It selects works that push new ideas to the forefront, challenge audience expectations and make us question our understanding of how art illuminates the world around us.
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NYC’s Shakespeare in the Park will present Twelfth Night Aug. 7 – Sept. 14 (opening Aug. 21), directed by Saheem Ali.
Lupita Nyong’o (Viola), Peter Dinklage (Malvolio), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Sandra Oh (Olivia), Khris Davis (Orsinio), Junior Nyong’o (Sebastian), Moses Sumney (Feste), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Maria) and Bill Camp (Sir Toby Belch).
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Tim Blake Nelson’s And Then There Were No More will run Sept. 19 – Nov. 2 (opening Sept. 28) at La MaMa, directed by Mark Wing-Davie.
Elizabeth Marvel, Scott Shepherd, Jennifer Mogbock, Henry Stram, Elizabeth Yeoman, William Appiah, E.J. An, Kasey Connolly, and Craig Wesley Divino.
In the not-too-distant future a lawyer is forced to represent a prisoner deemed ‘beyond rehabilitation’ and destined to perish in a newly developed machine designed to execute ‘without pain.’ The attorney must strive for justice in a system devoid of mercy.
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