Sun, Apr 19, 2020
Tony Award Winner André De Shields takes on the role of Ikoode in Kevin R. Free's newest work, "A Hill on Which to Drown." Inspired by the legendary plays of August Wilson, Free shows audiences the Century Cycle through the eyes of Ikoode, a gay Black man in his 90s, looking back as a witness to the events in his near-century on earth.
Tue, Apr 14, 2020
Miranda Rose Hall beautifully crafts a theatrical work that poignantly grapples with living in a time of extinction. Hall's plays have been presented at Lincoln Center as part of their LTC3 programming. The play features a stressed out dramaturge who has to step in for one of her actors when she has a family emergency. When faced with the prospect of her own existence among a litany of unfolding and seemingly existential environmental disasters, the dramaturge has a meltdown and shares it with the audience. This play was presented at En Garde Arts's Uncommon Voices and was workshopped this summer at the New York Theatre Workshop's residency series. Her play is based on a book entitled The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.
Tue, Jun 2, 2020
Actress, singer and playwright Syndee Winters brings the legendary Lena Horne to life in this new theater work celebrating this Black American icon. Accompanied by a jazz quintet, Winters uses her powerful vocals to imagine Horne's story in her own words as an activist, leader and pioneer in entertainment, who became one of the first Black women to break the color line in Hollywood.
Tue, Aug 4, 2020
Writer Annabelle Gurwitch exploring her new work, "If You Lived With Me, You'd Be Home By Now." This one-woman show uses comedy and prose to depict her true-life experience participating in a host home program for youth experiencing homelessness, presented in En Garde Arts' Uncommon Voices performances.
Tue, Aug 11, 2020
Hear conversations with writer and director Em Weinstein on their new work SOLIDERGIRLS about queer women in the army during WWII. A new 2-person musical written and directed by Em Weinstein, SOLDIERGIRLS uses real letters and a collage of found and original text to look at love, liberation and lesbianism in the US Army's Women's Army Corps in World War II.
Tue, Aug 18, 2020
"Where are you from? Like from, from?" Danny Pudi has spent his whole life never knowing how to answer that question. Raised by his Polish mother, Pudi has only ever been able to see the face of his Indian father, the man who left them, in the mirror. After running from his own reflection for decades, Pudi finds himself piecing together objects, memories and the puzzle of a father he never knew.