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Take Her To Church

The cast of Crowns. In an interview with the Arts Paper and the Inner City News earlier this year, playwright Regina Taylor said of the work: "I do find this piece defiant. I do find this piece political. You have an African-American woman at the center of it, and she is being questioned. I see myself as being questioned from the moment that I took my first breath. Sometimes just being is a statement of defiance. Being in this mind and being in this body. Where you stand ... it is a defiant act to breathe, to be, to have your own mind. It is political. " T. Charles Erickson Photo.

Whose Story Is It, Anyway?

Sohina Sidhu (background), Hend Ayoub, and James Cusati-Moyer in Kiss by Guillermo Calderón, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

“Capillary Waves” Sweep Co-Op Out To Sea

Arts & Culture | Co-Op High School | New Haven | Theater Lucy Gellman | April 11th, 2018

Ophelia pushes Hamlet into a lake, and a fish springs up from between the rows of chairs in a school auditorium. King Hamlet explores purgatory on the sprawling, matte floor of a gymnasium, with basketball hoops in the background. Polonius storms locker-lined hallways with a fizzy intercom spewing words above him. Through it all, a troupe of half-muzzled dancers leads the way, transforming school staircases into Elsinore Castle.

“Father Comes Home” Strikes A Local Chord

Arts & Culture | Suzan Lori-Parks | Theater | Tracey Massey Lucy Gellman | April 6th, 2018

Members of the company of Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2018.

Satellite Festival Takes Off

Arts & Culture | Theater Lucy Gellman | March 30th, 2018

The Revolution Will Not Be Historicized

Terrence Riggins as Kenyatta Shakur and Tamika Pettway as Nina in Sunset Baby. The show runs Feb. 22, 23 and 25, March 1-3 and 8-11 at Collective Consciousness Theatre. Lucy Gellman Photos.