Wed 2/5 @ 7:30PM
Since the beginning of time, theater has always been reinventing itself, trying to stay current with and address its own times. From Ibsen to Odets to Lorca and Sartre, Brecht to Albee to Kushner, playwrights have used the stage to air the issues they felt were most compelling to contemporary society. They’ve also rewritten classics — often just for novelty but just as often to turn them on their head and make us see them in a new way, as James Ijames Fat Ham does, setting Hamlet at a Black Southern barbecue (Fat Ham is at the Cleveland Play House through February 23.)
The next edition of the City Club co-sponsored “Happy Dog Takes On” series with take on contemporary theater and how it finds ways to stay fresh and reach out to new communities. It’s found a pair of panelists who’ve done the work:
Cleveland Public Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan and actress/playwright/director Nina Domingue. It’s free and open to all. And while registration isn’t required, it helps them plan. Go here.
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