Events

A clever Southern comedy Grande dames Grace Dunbar and Catherine Green prepare for the Nacirema Society’s 1964 centennial cotillion — the event of the season in Montgomery, Alabama. The elegant African American debutantes include Grace’s granddaughter Gracie, escorted by Catherine’s grandson Bobby, and the two grandmothers hope the young couple will soon be engaged. But...

Tapestries 9.0 continues Threads Dance Project’s tradition of highlighting new choreographic voices. This year’s production features original works by Colin Edwards, Rachel Lieberman, and Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies. The program also includes Karen L. Charles’ repertory work Let America Be America, inspired by the chant “Make America Great Again” and the idea that America has never been...

Tapestries 9.0 continues Threads Dance Project’s tradition of highlighting new choreographic voices. This year’s production features original works by Colin Edwards, Rachel Lieberman, and Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies. The program also includes Karen L. Charles’ repertory work Let America Be America, inspired by the chant “Make America Great Again” and the idea that America has never been...

A clever Southern comedy Grande dames Grace Dunbar and Catherine Green prepare for the Nacirema Society’s 1964 centennial cotillion — the event of the season in Montgomery, Alabama. The elegant African American debutantes include Grace’s granddaughter Gracie, escorted by Catherine’s grandson Bobby, and the two grandmothers hope the young couple will soon be engaged. But...

Tapestries 9.0 continues Threads Dance Project’s tradition of highlighting new choreographic voices. This year’s production features original works by Colin Edwards, Rachel Lieberman, and Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies. The program also includes Karen L. Charles’ repertory work Let America Be America, inspired by the chant “Make America Great Again” and the idea that America has never been...

2001. The DREAM act is first proposed. The Twin Towers fall. In New Jersey, two teenagers forge a friendship that becomes a sanctuary. Both brought to America as children, G and B support each other through life’s harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally...

2001. The DREAM act is first proposed. The Twin Towers fall. In New Jersey, two teenagers forge a friendship that becomes a sanctuary. Both brought to America as children, G and B support each other through life’s harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally...

Note: This performance is currently waitlist only. Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Rosina is young, clever, and wealthy, but her greedy guardian desires her and her fortune for himself. Using her wits to outsmart him and find her true love, she enlists Figaro, the mischievous and well-connected local barber, who...

Note: This performance is currently waitlist only. Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Rosina is young, clever, and wealthy, but her greedy guardian desires her and her fortune for himself. Using her wits to outsmart him and find her true love, she enlists Figaro, the mischievous and well-connected local barber, who...

Note: This performance is currently waitlist only. A young woman embarks on a cross-country bus trip in search of a televangelist she believes can cure a scar on her face. Along the way, she meets two soldiers who are facing their own troubles with money and racism. The trio’s journey becomes a rollicking ride through...

Note: This performance is currently waitlist only. A young woman embarks on a cross-country bus trip in search of a televangelist she believes can cure a scar on her face. Along the way, she meets two soldiers who are facing their own troubles with money and racism. The trio’s journey becomes a rollicking ride through...

Familia explores the beautiful and complex ties that bind us—both the families we’re born into and the ones we choose. From the moment we arrive in the world, we’re shaped and challenged by the people who love us. Through breathtaking circus arts and raw storytelling, Familia asks: What does it mean to belong? To break...

Whoa, Nellie! tells the rip-roaring musical tale of Nellie King, the “wily and scandalous female cowboy detective” whose countless criminal exploits and penchant for male attire made her an 1800s Minnesota media icon. By turns hilarious, tuneful, and deeply emotional, this grand spectacle resurrects an array of vaudevillian superstars to share a story of surprising...

Familia explores the beautiful and complex ties that bind us—both the families we’re born into and the ones we choose. From the moment we arrive in the world, we’re shaped and challenged by the people who love us. Through breathtaking circus arts and raw storytelling, Familia asks: What does it mean to belong? To break...

Familia explores the beautiful and complex ties that bind us—both the families we’re born into and the ones we choose. From the moment we arrive in the world, we’re shaped and challenged by the people who love us. Through breathtaking circus arts and raw storytelling, Familia asks: What does it mean to belong? To break...

Whoa, Nellie! tells the rip-roaring musical tale of Nellie King, the “wily and scandalous female cowboy detective” whose countless criminal exploits and penchant for male attire made her an 1800s Minnesota media icon. By turns hilarious, tuneful, and deeply emotional, this grand spectacle resurrects an array of vaudevillian superstars to share a story of surprising...

Two actors, father and daughter, tell their own story through the words of Virginia Woolf, composing an alternately fanciful, visceral, and vulnerable duet. Playing with language, movement, and dress-up, like children, they put on their own "living-room play." All the while, wrestling existential questions of gender and fiction: or, what it means to be and...

Two actors, father and daughter, tell their own story through the words of Virginia Woolf, composing an alternately fanciful, visceral, and vulnerable duet. Playing with language, movement, and dress-up, like children, they put on their own "living-room play." All the while, wrestling existential questions of gender and fiction: or, what it means to be and...

Pam and Jou used to be best friends. Promising star athletes on their volleyball team, they both had big dreams of moving away from Minnesota and playing in college. Jumping back and forth between their teenage years and adulthood, we see how the tensions of family, culture, and ambition shape these young women and their...

Pam and Jou used to be best friends. Promising star athletes on their volleyball team, they both had big dreams of moving away from Minnesota and playing in college. Jumping back and forth between their teenage years and adulthood, we see how the tensions of family, culture, and ambition shape these young women and their...

Pam and Jou used to be best friends. Promising star athletes on their volleyball team, they both had big dreams of moving away from Minnesota and playing in college. Jumping back and forth between their teenage years and adulthood, we see how the tensions of family, culture, and ambition shape these young women and their...

Two actors, father and daughter, tell their own story through the words of Virginia Woolf, composing an alternately fanciful, visceral, and vulnerable duet. Playing with language, movement, and dress-up, like children, they put on their own "living-room play." All the while, wrestling existential questions of gender and fiction: or, what it means to be and...