Here are a few chances to visit Curio Theatre before it closes its doors until the next season. The local theater company will present a series of free performances this weekend and on Monday, June 22.
CuriosiTeens! (Photo courtesy of Curio Theatre Company)
Curio’s young company, CuriosiTeens! will present three performances of Bang Bang You’re Dead, a powerful drama written by William Mastrosimone in the wake of the school shootings of the late 1990s. The goal of this production is to search out and answer a very complex question: “Why?”. The first performance is tonight at 7 p.m., and there will be two shows tomorrow (Saturday, June 20) – at 2 and 7 p.m. All shows are on Curio’s Main Stage (48th and Baltimore). Please call 215-525-1350 or email steven@curiotheatre.org to reserve your tickets.
On Monday, Curio’s 2015 New Play reading series concludes with Antagonyms written by Rachel Gluck. “When a man returns to his home city after fifteen years of running, four people must struggle to maintain control over their lives, and keep the past in the past.” The play is directed by Jack Tamburri. The cast features Isa St. Clair, Trevor Fayle, Colleen Hughes and Andrew J. Carroll. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. on Curio’s Corner Stage, 48th and Baltimore Ave.
June 19th, 2015 at 2:11 pm
I’d be much more interested in this is if there was a much more diverse voice represented. Looks like another theater company in a diverse neighborhood catered to a white demographic that includes a few token children of color who perform words written by an older white dude.
June 19th, 2015 at 2:23 pm
I don’t know anything about this, but Rich, do go ahead and start that theater group. I think that the answer to “more diversity please” is “yes, do it!” instead of “shut this down/negative energy because this doesn’t represent ABC and XYZ”.
No theater presentation is going to capture everything that everyone wants…perfect is the enemy of the good.
I’m a relative newcomer, but there are a fair number of historic residents of this neighborhood who aren’t of color, from the history that I have heard. If you are looking for diversity, it’s not always about color.
June 19th, 2015 at 2:35 pm
My donation to Project Theater Project last year is going to be my last of anything associated with Rich Wexler. A professional wouldn’t publicly dump on kids and a competitor program in this way, and even an amateur with common sense and/or decency would have kept such thoughts to private social media.
Never going to PM you, dude.