performance ensemble NEWS!

PS Ensemble NEWS! JULY This month's performance studio focuses on poetry writing! Our guest host, Shanita Bigelow, will guide participants through an afternoon of reflection and sharing. WHAT "Write, Honor, and Celebrate: A 'Golden Shovel' Poetry Workshop" is designed to provide space and time to explore and use the "Golden Shovel" form to write a poem that honors and celebrates someone or something. Whether honoring and celebrating a loved one, a favorite place, a favorite food, a pet, some aspect…

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Up Next... Theatre workshop for Kids! DREAAM Academy July 24 - 28, 2023 A workshop/reading of Honey Bee Baby by Erlina Ortiz Rivendell Theatre Ensemble - Fresh Produce Festival August 18-21, 2023 Writing workshop with First Followers August 30, 2023 A workshop/reading of Birds of North America by Matthew-Lee Erlbach Illinois Theatre New Play Reading - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts September 17-18, 2023 The Unreliable Bestiary - CETACEAN UIUC - The Stock Pavilion September 28 - October 2, 2023 Witch by Jen Silverman KCPA…

Meadowbrook Project

Untitled (25th Anniversary Celebration for the Wandell Sculpture Garden at Meadowbrook Park) with Jason Finkleman and Deke Weaver. Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7:00pm Details TBA A walk in the park with the ensemble.

unsettled: an African American Reflection on the Pottawatamie Trail of Death

The final part of the shared Allerton Residency culminates in a walking tour experience of the September days of the trail through this region, layered with African American music (Negro spirituals and gospel) and a expanded unsettled choral theatre piece. unsettled: an African American Reflection on the Pottawatamie Trail of Death Between September and November of 1838, a total of 859 indigenous American Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their homeland in Northern Indiana and marched to Eastern Kansas. Join theater…

THE STORY

THE STORY by Tracey Scott Wilson Parkland College Theatre October 13 - 23, 2022 Play about an ambitious black newspaper reporter, Yvonne Wilson, goes against her editor, Pat Morgan, to investigate a murder and finds the BEST story...but at what cost? Wilson explores the elusive nature of truth as the boundaries between reality and dreams.

Joy of Regathering

Joy of Regathering Krannert Center for the Performing Arts - Colwell Playhouse Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 7:30pm World Premiere This original performance piece explores our place in the cosmos through science, music, and movement. The Joy of Regathering considers who we are, from the microscopic entities that compose us, to what makes us human, to the astronomical realm that we inhabit. "Regathering" is the focus, coming together after a long separation: as voices, travelers of the globe; as molecules of…