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Hunter Theater Project Presents An All-Female Erica Schmidt Directed Macbeth

18Jan

By Dexter Phillip-KhaneNo Comments

Fresh News, New York, Theatre

Hunter Theater Project Presents An All-Female Erica Schmidt Directed Macbeth

Exciting news in the world of theater Macbeth is playing in town. Hunter Theater Project under the producing genius of Gregory Mosher is presenting an all-female production of William Shakespeare Macbeth under the direction of Erica Schmidt. This plays a seven-week run at Hunter College's Frederick Loewe Theatre, January 6–February 22. Tickets here. As a theater student at Hunter College, I was able to attend a dress rehearsal during tech weeks prior to previews and opening night. There has been tremendous growth all around with each actresses' engagement of their respected characters. As an audience member during this 90-minute run, you'll hear Macbeth anew. The voices of the women on stage brings a different understanding of the life of Shakespeare's work that isn't ...

Hunter Theater Company to Produce Clare Barron’s Dance Nation

This weekend Hunter College Theatre Company presents Clare Barron's Dance Nation. Directed by Muse Scholar, Cooperman Fellow, and president of Hunter College Theater Company, Annika Prager leads a cast of nine actors in a play that is about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all. Clare Barron’s fierce and ambitious award-winning play follows a troupe of 13-year-old girls as they learn to unleash their power. This is a 99% student ran production. With one exception of the necessary technical director due to college safety guidelines. Otherwise, the talent of the cast and crew shines in what is possible when passionate students come together to create a piece of art. This is theatrical art at its finest. Show Times: October 17-19 at 7 PM; Doors...

World Premier of Sing! Goddess

Greek mythology is something I have been fascinated with since elementary school. I remember there was one book, the only one of its kind, in the school library that I still have yet to return. Yikes! Those late fees are most likely outstandingly gross. Ines Braun & Erin Capistrano have created a work that is all-encompassing of what a night out to the theater should feel like, bringing together of communities through storytelling. Braun and Capistrano's new work takes audiences on a journey of how would the forces or powers to operate if there were no male head figure involved. The duo craft of adding complex layers of richness by embodying the goddesses with the actors' humanity makes for both entertaining and educational theater. Having worked with Ines and Erin before, I know very ...