Fences is the story of a former Negro Leagues star who ended up a garbage collector because Major League Baseball had no place for black players. But it’s also a story of love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty — all the notions and emotions that rule our lives. That’s why August Wilson’s play won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, and why it remains his most popular work.
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Not Your Ordinary Muscial
A lost notebook. A trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fight over a bottle of wine. All ordinary occurrences that add up to one extraordinary new musical from composer Adam Gwon. Ordinary Days, which makes its West Coast debut Jan. 3-24, intertwines the stories of four young New Yorkers looking for love, connections and a way to make their mark on the world.
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Trouble, Turmoil and Tesseracts
SCR’s own John Glore is the man behind a new stage adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s classic, A Wrinkle in Time. Is he feeling any pressure? In a word, yes. “So many people [have] told me that it was their favorite book as a child.” But we’re sure Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin and the Mesdames Whatsit, Who and Which are in capable hands.
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Jesus Hates Me, or so fears Ethan, a hapless former high-school football star living in the shadow of the “Blood of the Lamb” Miniature Golf Course, where a Wal-Mart mannequin transformed into Jesus stares down from a cross overlooking the 17th hole. Audiences loved this dramedy when it played the Chance Theater earlier this year, and now SCR is bringing that Chance production to the Nicholas Studio.
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