Alliance Theatre offers virtual spring break camps
We’ve been cooped up for three weeks, and it’s time for a break. Namely, spring break! The creative minds at the Alliance Theatre have announced they are offering one of …
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Writer and illustrator Mo Willems hosting lunchtime drawing class for kids on YouTube
Mo Willems–the best-selling children’s book author, illustrator, and creator–is doing his part to entertain children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator of the Alliance Theatre’s Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: …
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On an even playing field: Alliance Theatre’s naked mole rats invite all ages to have an encounter with the theatre
Photos: A’riel Tinter Director Leora Morris (Ride the Cyclone, Winnie the Pooh) knows Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience is more than a story about some obscure rodents. …
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Power and Limits: Will Power tackles questions of human nature through a Shakespearean villain
Photo by Greg Mooney Playwright Will Power wonders, “This time that we live in right now has really made me think about big questions of virtue and evil, selfishness and …
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‘Seize the King’: Previously, on the War of the Roses
Story by: Elliott FoldsGraphic by: Reina McLaughlin Shakespeare’s Richard III, which provides the basis for Seize the King, is a fictionalization of the ascendancy of the historical King Richard III …
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NO PUMPKINS HERE!
The creators and director of the Alliance Theatre musical “Ever After” put their faith in a modern Cinderella-like heroine who can take care of herself. See it Jan. 15-Feb. 17.
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HERE WE GO, A-‘CAROL’-ING
Rosemary Newcott, directing her last “A Christmas Carol” as an Alliance Theatre staff member, reflects on her life in the theater. And she’s not done yet.
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A PLAYWRIGHT RISES
“Knead,” says playwright-actor Mary Lynn Owen, has gone through a “gazillion trillion” rewrites. “At one time it was a cooking show gone wrong. Finding the immediacy of the play has been a firsthand education in ‘why plays are plays.’ You’d think I’d have picked this up by now!”
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Critics like Alliance-bred Broadway musical ‘The Prom’
“The Prom,” the new American musical born in 2016 at the Alliance Theatre, opened on Broadway to positive reviews from The New York Times, Deadline Hollywood, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and the Wall Street Journal.
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THE MULTITALENTED MR. DePOY
With the world premiere musical “Nick’s Flamingo Grill,” actor-composer-playwright Phillip DePoy returns to the Alliance Theatre for the first time since 2015’s award-winning “Edward Foote.”
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