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Birds of North America

  [smartslider3 slider="5"] Photos: Darrell Hoemann Studio Theatre at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing century, Birds of North America is a searing dark comedy-drama about immigration, technology, the American Dream, and one working-class family's last-ditch effort to save themselves and their name before they go extinct. New York-based playwright and alum Matthew-Lee Erlbach returns to develop a new play prior to the opening of his play Revelations (directed by Tony-Award winner Anna…

performance ensemble NEWS!

PS Ensemble NEWS! performance ensemble is on hiatus until summer 2025.  please check back later for June-August offerings. QUESTIONS? Contact me, Latrelle Bright at info@latrellebright.com [caption id="attachment_5171" align="alignleft" width="300"] movement and art, February 2023[/caption] Performance Studio at  Urbana Dance Company 122 W. Main, 2nd Floor | Urbana, IL 61801

Meadowbrook Project

An Evening with Deke Weaver, Jason Finkleman and Latrelle Bright 25th Anniversary Celebration for the Wandell Sculpture Garden at Meadowbrook Park Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7:00pm Deke Weaver - an excerpt from CETACEAN Jason Finkleman - music experimentation Latrelle Bright - If Sculptures Could Talk [smartslider3 slider="7"] The Team - Janet Soesbe and Timothy Bartlett The Ensemble - Ellen Magee, Tiphaine Kouadou, Eme Ospina-Lopez, Ash Goodly

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…

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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…