"Therefore, be good and show yourselves in an exemplary manner, let imagination, with all its choirs, reason, intellect, feeling, passion, but, remember well! not without folly."

Faust, Mephisto, Gretchen, Marthe Schwerdtlein, Wagner, Valentin, Witch, Pupil, Lieschen, Director, Poet, Merry Person, Archangel, Lord, Earth Spirit, Chorus of Angels, Chorus of Women, Chorus of Disciples, Strollers of all kinds, Ghosts, Merry Companions, Witch's Beasts, Evil Spirit, Voice from Above, a Poodle – all roles from Goethe's Faust that would guarantee a large theater the employment of an entire acting company. The Young State Theater Parchim will entrust this burden to a single actor. In a fast-paced hour, he presents the master's greatest work with wit, pathos, and a close connection to the audience. A must-see not only for Faust aficionados and Goethe fans.

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Faust – A Solo

Hagenow

Kulturmühle Parchim

Rostock

Sundhagen School Center

The creation story set in the reality of Västerbotten
- I believe in evolution. In my worldview, the world did not come into being as it is written in Genesis.

I consider the creation story to be a beautiful, powerful and poetic story – as long as you are allowed to do as you please in terms of believing in it. And thank goodness we have freedom of religion in our country. So you can believe in evolution and be open to spirituality at the same time. It is not everywhere in the world that you are allowed to believe what you want.

I see the Judeo/Christian creation story as a fairy tale about how everything began. And that is not surprising. Such stories have arisen in most human cultures. It is enough to look up at a starry sky on a clear winter night and it raises big questions. And the answers to those questions have really varied depending on time and place.
According to the creation story, man is a construction of Our Lord, a kind of invention.

But it was probably like putting a check on the gardener that man was assigned the task of managing creation.

When our lord made Bygdsiljum and all the rest

A crime has been committed and Dr Watson needs your help. You’ll need to follow a trail of clues around Summertown to crack the mystery, meeting a cast of Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless characters along the way. 

A missing Professor, an old book and a sensational headline. It isn’t much evidence for Sherlock Holmes to crack the case, but with your help, justice will be served.

An interactive production, based on the Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by award-winning site-specific theatre company, Creation.

Sherlock in Summertown

Twin siblings, Simon and Janine, living in Canada, unravel the secrets of their mother’s past, Nawal, after her death amidst the haunting echoes of Lebanon’s civil war. In a quest that spans continents and generations, they unravel the truth behind many years of Nawal’s deafening silence and explore their origins through her story. As the past collides with the present, they come to understand the interconnected roots of their family’s narrative and their tangled realities.

Scorched

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The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

"One job doesn't get you very far these days. You need two for a life. That's the so-called flexibility that everyone is talking about these days. They do it so that at the end of the day we don't know where we are at. But two paychecks mean two meals, that's all I can think of right now."
Beatrice wants to collect her recently deceased brother's money from his debtors, but nobody takes her seriously as a woman. So she disguises herself as her dead brother in order to get the money she is entitled to. To gain credibility and support, she also hires the servant Truffaldino. However, he has also taken a job with Florindo because he cannot otherwise make ends meet on his salary. What he doesn't know is that Florindo is Beatrice's lover and is on the run because he is said to have killed Beatrice's brother because Beatrice's brother wanted to prevent his relationship with his sister. Chaos and comedy of errors are inevitable...

The Servant of Two Masters

Lucienne is an only child. When her parents tell her that she will soon be a big sister, it is a huge upheaval! But when her brother is born, she feels alone: ​​the baby keeps her mother and father busy day and night. It is as if, in this new life as a family of four, there is suddenly no more room for her. And when her mother smiles, Lucienne no longer believes it: where has the cheerfulness gone that used to light up her face and make her eyes shine?

When mom smiles

It’s hard to know who you want to be with when you don’t know who you are. Just Friends follows the ever-evolving lives of two best friends as they navigate who they are beyond the safety of their childhood bond. This new Canadian play by local playwright and disabled artist Faith Andrew explores the complexities of growing up, moving on and what happens to those that are left behind — or those who decide never to grow up at all.

Just Friends

The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Beth Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds in winter quarter 2025. Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Peter J. Kuo, the minimalist work of experimental theater casts the audience as voyeurs in an entertaining adventure that gradually turns more serious.

Small Mouth Sounds

Wyatt Pavilion

Set the timer. The everyday existence of a mother during a sweltering summer vacation: prepare meals, pack the bag, run the drill, repeat. With a dry wit and the determination of an Olympian, Mariam meticulously practices for the run of her life—the dreaded knock on the roof. Written and performed by Khawla Ibraheem, this unforgettable new play about obsession, survival and everyday life in Gaza is developed and directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Obie Award winner Oliver Butler (What the Constitution Means to Me).

A Knock on the Roof

The Shakespeare Education Experience (SEE) Tour brings professional Shakespeare directly into your school or venue! This interactive abridged production tells the story of the man and his wife who let their ambition and greed overpower their morals and consciences. The SEE Tour production of Macbeth is presented as a dialogue between the actors and the audience, with actors providing additional context and encouraging the audience to respond to questions regarding the central characters of the play. The text is original and the relevance is immediate!

Shakespeare Education Experience Tour - Macbeth

A popular play by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the bloodbath begins and one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme

And Then There Were None

Riverfront Theater

	
In a long spectral corporeal poem, Gui B.B engages in a complex exploration of her experience with debt. She delves into how it is both endured and fought within her own body. The artist establishes a symbolic trans space where she reclaims ambiguity, uncertainty, hyper-vulnerability, and chaos. Thus, she invites us into a haunted space where she confronts the inherent precarity of her indebted life, transforming it into a vital force. Along the way, she exudes her own ghost, offering her body as a sacrifice as it fails to be more than just a system.

I Have Such a Horrible Voice

In this symphonic fusion of long duration, blending dance, improvisation and live-action role-playing, a universe unfolds in the hands of numerous worldbuilders. Avatars CLAIR and LEO freely traverse the ALTERMUNDI across three imaginary landscapes – a futuristic desert, a Space Western village and a racing track. In their unrestrained escapades, they embody a myriad of spirits, categorized into two archetypes: the “wise”; holders of knowledge, and the “fools”; liberated from intellectual constraints.
/by far the riskiest experience of their lives/

Alternative

Facebook has over 2.2 billion users and just over 30 million are dead. By 2065, dead users will outnumber the living, rendering the site a digital graveyard. This performance lecture explores our online afterlives, their value to those left behind, and how they can be co-opted for political and economic purposes.

Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook

	
“Either you’re the boss de tes bécosses, or you’re a carrier of civilization!”, announces an upside-down owl to a poet from Hoch’lag. This laboratory attests to the first encounter between a member of the Wendat Nation and her culture. Woven throughout with the wisdom of the Indigenous medicine wheel, this street poetry piece merges supernatural universes, biographical narrative, citizen speech, dance, storytelling, and experimental music. The artist shares the complexity of her search for meaning – in this new engagement with her origins – within apocalyptical times. This multidimensional and disconcerting experience is, for the first time, given voice and embodiment by the author.

Les rouges pour la fin

The Department of Theatre and Dance presents a world premiere work that reimagines William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Who’s There by Irish theatre director and acting teacher Sinéad Rushe plays May 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 at 7 p.m. and May 25 at 2 p.m. in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Old Davis Road.

Who’s There?

Featuring book and lyrics by Aaron Jafferis and music by Dahlak Brathwaite and Daniel Bernard Roumain, Smooth Criminal is a music-theatre work about Aaron, a nerdy white guy desperate to liberate his people – as soon as he can figure out who they are. Five actors and a musician try to undo Aaron’s family’s twisted relationship with race and money, but his family has other plans.

Smooth Criminal, A Hip Hop Musical Theatre Workshop

Something terrible happened to Junie B. Jones at school today! Someone stole her new furry mittens! So when Junie B. finds a wonderful pen of many colors, she should be allowed to keep it, right? Because finders keepers, losers weepers. And guess what? There's a new boy in kindergarten and he is the handsomest. The only thing is both Grace and Lucille want him to be their boyfriend. Maybe he will love Junie B. when he sees her wonderful pen! It is okay to keep it, right? Junie B. Jones is not a crook . . . or is she? A hilarious and heartfelt tale based on the best-selling book series by Barbara Park

Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook

**The Seagull at Soulpepper Theatre**

**Dates:** April 6 to May 7

**Location:** Soulpepper Theatre

**About the Play:**
Dive into the heart of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, "The Seagull," in a new version by Simon Stephens, presented by Soulpepper Theatre. This production brings to life a tumultuous weekend at a lakeside estate, where unrequited love, creative jealousy, and the pursuit of art collide with devastating consequences. The play seamlessly transitions between the absurd and the profound, exploring the intense desire to create and the destructive nature of love.

**Runtime:** Approximately 3 hours, including intermission.

**Special Performances:**
- **Relaxed Performance:** Sunday, April 16 at 1:30 PM
- **Covid Conscious Performances:** Limited to 50% capacity with masks required on April 12 at 7:30 PM and April 19 at 1:30 PM.

**Please Note:** The play contains mature themes, graphic language, and distressing imagery.

**Cast & Creative Team Highlights:**
- **Raoul Bhaneja** as Boris
- **Hailey Gillis** as Nina
- **Michelle Monteith** as Irina
- **Paolo Santalucia** as Konstantin
- Directed by **Daniel Brooks**
- Playwright: **Simon Stephens**
- Costume Design by **Snezana Pesic**
- Lighting Design by **Jason Hand**
- Sound Design by **Thomas Ryder Payne**

Join the conversation using #spSeagull and immerse yourself in this timeless tale of art, love, and the complexities of the human condition. For tickets and more information, visit the Soulpepper Theatre website.

The Seagull

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!

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