The Barn Arts 2018 Season
10th Anniversary Season: 2008-2018
May through October
May through October
*The following is a list of all resident artists and programs currently planned for May - October.
Please check back for updates on performance dates and times.
Admission for all programs is by donation unless otherwise noted. Reserve your seat on Eventbrite.
Please check back for updates on performance dates and times.
Admission for all programs is by donation unless otherwise noted. Reserve your seat on Eventbrite.
Saturday, May 26, 5-10pm at the Legion Hall
Mirthapalooza II
A music festival of local bands celebrating the life and legacy of Larry Stettner.
Rated G
Saturday, June 2, 7pm at the Barn
Eighth Grade President
by Ashkon Davaran, Jacey Powers, Jacob Fjeldheim
Middle school has taught Madison lessons in algebra, literature, and life. She's learned that boys drool... does that mean girls get to rule?
Rated PG-13
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This Is Where We Live
Orphan's Theatre
Rosanna Santacruz Lindmarker, Owen Laheen
She, a first generation immigrant from Venezuela and DACA recipient, is faced with the opportunity to return to Venezuela to take up the position of a revolutionary political activist, which would mean leaving him behind, forever.
Rated PG-13
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Leviathan Lab’s FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Leviathan Lab, an NYC-based not-for-profit creative studio for Asian American performing artists, presents a developmental reading of a new solo performance piece FULL CONTACT written and performed by Leviathan’s founder and resident actor Ariel Estrada, about his experiences as a survivor of 20 years in an Indonesian martial arts cult, and his coming out as a gay man in the height of the AIDS crisis.
Rated R
Wednesday, June 6, 7pm at the Barn
Excerpts from BLOOD BAG
Written, built and performed by Eli Nixon, Directed by Anne Cecelia Haney
With music by EDT
What can we learn about patience, fortitude, and interdependence from our primordial ancestors?
Rated PG
Saturday, June 9, 7pm at the Barn
Excerpts from BLOOD BAG
Written, built and performed by Eli Nixon, Directed by Anne Cecelia Haney
With music by Matthew Schreiber
What can we learn about patience, fortitude, and interdependence from our primordial ancestors?
Rated PG
---
The Mushroom Hunter
Lynne Williams
A short, fantasy screenplay based on a short story.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Saturday, June 16, 2pm at the Barn
Fountain: A New Musical Adventure
Christopher Anselmo & Jared Corak
A new musical that explores the peculiar and perilous oddities of Florida through the eyes of a young girl as she hunts for the healing waters of the Fountain of youth to save her ailing grandfather.
Rated PG
Saturday, June 16, 7pm at the Barn
how to fall in love with the earth again
by Dana Greenfield
An immersive meditation on the practice of listening and the effects of noise pollution on our everyday lives.
Rated PG
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Walt Whitman BodyJolt™
Written and directed by Alex Hare
Take an unconventional new exercise class designed to give Americans a physical, intellectual, and moral workout, led by esteemed poet – and physically fitness enthusiast (seriously) – Walt Whitman.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, June 23, 7pm and 9pm at the Barn
Pandemonium, a play in two parts
Bowen Swersey
A Greek comedy taking place on the slopes of Mount Olympus.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated R
Make your reservation for 7pm
Make your reservation for 9pm
Saturday, June 30, 7pm at the Barn
Gig Economy Playhouse
Josh Rollin & Calvin Kasulke
A fiction podcast run as it’s named; episodes are written and produced quickly, and the actors are cast via websites and apps.
Rated PG-13
Thursdays at 11am and Sundays at 1pm, July 5 - September 2 at the Criterion Theatre
The Barn Arts Collective presents
Bee Parks and the Hornets
A theatrical concert party featuring an insect indie pop-rock band for all ages and species.
Rated G
$7 tickets available at criteriontheatre.org
Saturday, July 7, 7pm at the Barn
Homeisland Project
Andrea Lepcio
We live here. A collaborative creation project with local actors.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Saturday, July 14, 5pm at the Barn
HAMILTON PROJECT X
10 artists. 10 days. 10 projects. 10 year anniversary.
Sara and Basil
Mary Rose Go
A musical about a young girl and her spiritual guidance cat who helps her navigate a difficult childhood.
Rated PG
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Panache
Keurim Hur
Not consciously based on Cyrano de Bergerac but named for it anyway, Panache is a play about emotionally exhausted women of color who fake the perfect white male ally on social media so that the battles they've been fighting can finally be won - on Facebook, at least.
Rated PG
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m(y)o͝oˈlädō
Alexis Ingram
A personal exploration of a woman's life growing up Half-Black and Half-White in New England.
Rated PG-13
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Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)
Julia Izumi
Akira Kurosawa will hopefully explain his movies to you, and he 100%, definitely, without a doubt will explain yogurt to you.
Rated PG-13
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The Castaway Cabaret
Jake Simonds
A harrowing tale of survival, as told thru song and dance.
Rated PG-13
---
Daily Rituals
Talia Rothstein
Drawing inspiration from the environmental and social context at the Barn, Daily Rituals is a series of daily performances celebrating the relationship of the artist to her community.
Rated PG
---
It's in the Bag
Rachel Karp
The magic of Old Time Radio combines with the misogyny of classic and contemporary America to ask: how long will a woman becoming president be just a joke?
Rated PG
---
Бабишка | BAb(oo)shka
Anna Lublina
An interdisciplinary performance that uses storytelling, live-translation, puppetry, and campy reenactment to expose the realities of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and how those experiences translate across generations and migrations.
Rated PG-13
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SPIT OUT THE DIRT
Kristi Stout
A poetry collection that attempts to disentangle questions concerning womanhood, identity, losses, past and current hearts.
Rated PG-13
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SURFACE (working title)
Clare Cook
A collaborative performance piece using the body as medium to forge relationships between painting, sound and movement.
Rated PG
PLUS:
The Barn
Blake Horn
A collection of film-vignettes focusing on artists' stories, processes, inspirations, and works.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, July 21, 7pm at the Barn
Island Environmental: A View of MDI through Photography, Science and Word
Cheryl Novins & Michele Benoit
Exploring conservation issues on MDI through the use of photography with a nod to science, prose, and the spoken word.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Make your reservation here
Wednesday, July 25, 7pm at Joanna's studio: 8 Oak Hill Rd, Somesville
Under the Light
The dancer and the painter: Jan Pinkerton and Joanna Logue
A new work daring to expose the underlying resilience that reveals our identity, and exploring themes common to the human condition such as fear, loss and courage.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Make your reservation here
Saturday, July 28, 7pm at the Barn
FORA
Jae Broderick and Matthew AC Cohen
When You Fall In Love, You Will Remember: A musical about love, family and country told through the eyes of 17 year old Gigi and the citizens of the island nation of Forafu.
Rated PG
---
The Casualties of Need
Cayenne Douglass, playwright. Nikki DiLoreto, director.
As Shane, a 26 year old biracial woman begins to heal the fragmented relationship with her father she discovers that some of her anger towards him has less to do with who he is but what he is, black. Shane’s realization about her father’s blackness forces her to examine the blackness in her and confront a deep shame stemming from an internalized racism, which she had yet to consciously identify.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, August 4, 2pm at the Barn
Querelle de Brest Ballet Project
Byron Asher
Byron will spend his residency orchestrating a score for a new ballet adaptation of "Querelle de Brest" by Jean Genet. His time will culminate in a performance of excerpts of the new piece plus other works and improvisations with MDI musician and composer Danny Fisher-Lochhead, among others.
Rated PG
Saturday, August 4, 7pm at the Barn
W
Sketching Staccato
Original music meets visual art in this multidisciplinary exploration of the “wild woman” archetype and embodied living.
Rated PG-13
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Gnomes of Bass Harbor
Nekyia Theatre
A vocal, theatrical and mythic celebration of the magical creatures that lurk in Bass Harbor.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, August 11, 7pm at the Barn
The Worker Must Have Bread, but She Must Have Roses Too
Ayla McCarthy Combes (Writer/Director), Working Girls (Ensemble)
An all-immigrant and all-female cast brings new life to the story of the young factory workers who were victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911
Rated PG-13
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Find Out
Danny Fisher-Lochhead, Ross Gallagher, and Ari Chersky
Instead of working to realize the vision of only one member of this group, Find Out is an expression of each of our musical lives -- our personal interests, curiosities, and passions -- and of the life of the group as a whole.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG
August 19, 3pm at the Saltair Inn (Aug 18 rained out!) AND August 25-26, 3pm at the NEH Marina
Shakespeare By the Sea
A collaboration between the Barn Arts Collective and Acadia Community Theatre
The Barn Arts adaptations of Shakespeare’s 12th Night! and Tempest performed in rep, featuring original music and a chorus of community members.
Rated PG
Tickets available on-site
Saturday, August 18, 7pm at the Barn
Emma Goldman's Good Tyme Anarchist Ice Cream Cafe
Kate Sheridan & Christine Freije
A one-woman exploration of the true historical story of legendary lady anarchist Emma Goldman's one-time ice cream shop ownership, the assassination it inspired, and the still all-too-pertinent themes of men, money, and power - WITH ICE CREAM!
Rated PG-13
Thursday, August 23, 6:30pm at the Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Adventures of Miss Susan: Children’s Librarian of the Southwest Harbor Public Library
Brittany Parker
A wordless puppet show about the world's best children's librarian
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Saturday, August 25, 7pm at the Barn
SPACE DOGS OF THE COSMODROME
Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes
Two artists chart the parallels between the creative process and the use of canine cosmonauts during the Cold War Space Race.
Rated PG-13
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An Intervention.
The Harpers Theatre
"An Intervention." follows one young woman's struggle with alcoholism and the effects of her addiction on the people who love her.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Saturday, September 1, 7pm at the Barn
The Sixth Day
Andrea Ang
Inspired by the Creation Story, The Sixth Day re-imagines the widely-known narrative as a tragic tale of love and loss through wordless puppetry and movement.
Rated PG
---
Mother Kofi: The Tale of an African Princess
Alphonso Horne
Laura Adorka Kofi, known to her followers as “Mother Kofi” was a Ghanaian princess, sent on a mission to travel to America and deliver a message of invitation, union and self-help.
Rated PG
Saturday, September 29, 11am at the Barn
Breath: An Experience for the Very Young
Parachute Theatre for the Very Young
“A baby being born in the sky”... Breath is a nurturing sensory experience for pre-crawling babies and their caretakers inspired by stories of airplanes.
Rated G
Saturday, September 29, 7pm at the Barn
Little
Kristin McCarthy Parker, Colin Waitt, Wes Zurick
A hilarious and heartfelt reimagining of Chicken Little for family audiences, complete with bluegrass music and puppets.
Rated G
Saturday, October 13, 2pm, location TBD
meSSeS
Janoah anygoodjokes? Bailin
Learn to juggle in this participatory performance, using mesmerizing movements of objects, bodies and words.
*Part of Southwest Harbor Days
Rated G
Saturday, October 20, 7pm at the Barn
Mommy and Me
Leonie Bell
The four residents of a whale’s belly throw temper tantrums, call your moms, try to go to sleep, and sing mass lullabies in an attempt to sing their stranded selves back to safer waters.
Rated PG-13
---
The Marrow in the Bone
Jane Denitz Smith (playwright), Tara Elliott (director), Peter S. Smith (co-director)
Loosely based on actual events in 19th century Russia: the publication of cookbook sensation Elena Molokhovets’ "A Gift to Young Housewives" converges—to the day-- with Tsar Alexander II’s proclamation emancipating her serf.
Rated PG-13
Mirthapalooza II
A music festival of local bands celebrating the life and legacy of Larry Stettner.
Rated G
Saturday, June 2, 7pm at the Barn
Eighth Grade President
by Ashkon Davaran, Jacey Powers, Jacob Fjeldheim
Middle school has taught Madison lessons in algebra, literature, and life. She's learned that boys drool... does that mean girls get to rule?
Rated PG-13
---
This Is Where We Live
Orphan's Theatre
Rosanna Santacruz Lindmarker, Owen Laheen
She, a first generation immigrant from Venezuela and DACA recipient, is faced with the opportunity to return to Venezuela to take up the position of a revolutionary political activist, which would mean leaving him behind, forever.
Rated PG-13
---
Leviathan Lab’s FULL CONTACT
Written and performed by Ariel Estrada
Leviathan Lab, an NYC-based not-for-profit creative studio for Asian American performing artists, presents a developmental reading of a new solo performance piece FULL CONTACT written and performed by Leviathan’s founder and resident actor Ariel Estrada, about his experiences as a survivor of 20 years in an Indonesian martial arts cult, and his coming out as a gay man in the height of the AIDS crisis.
Rated R
Wednesday, June 6, 7pm at the Barn
Excerpts from BLOOD BAG
Written, built and performed by Eli Nixon, Directed by Anne Cecelia Haney
With music by EDT
What can we learn about patience, fortitude, and interdependence from our primordial ancestors?
Rated PG
Saturday, June 9, 7pm at the Barn
Excerpts from BLOOD BAG
Written, built and performed by Eli Nixon, Directed by Anne Cecelia Haney
With music by Matthew Schreiber
What can we learn about patience, fortitude, and interdependence from our primordial ancestors?
Rated PG
---
The Mushroom Hunter
Lynne Williams
A short, fantasy screenplay based on a short story.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Saturday, June 16, 2pm at the Barn
Fountain: A New Musical Adventure
Christopher Anselmo & Jared Corak
A new musical that explores the peculiar and perilous oddities of Florida through the eyes of a young girl as she hunts for the healing waters of the Fountain of youth to save her ailing grandfather.
Rated PG
Saturday, June 16, 7pm at the Barn
how to fall in love with the earth again
by Dana Greenfield
An immersive meditation on the practice of listening and the effects of noise pollution on our everyday lives.
Rated PG
---
Walt Whitman BodyJolt™
Written and directed by Alex Hare
Take an unconventional new exercise class designed to give Americans a physical, intellectual, and moral workout, led by esteemed poet – and physically fitness enthusiast (seriously) – Walt Whitman.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, June 23, 7pm and 9pm at the Barn
Pandemonium, a play in two parts
Bowen Swersey
A Greek comedy taking place on the slopes of Mount Olympus.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated R
Make your reservation for 7pm
Make your reservation for 9pm
Saturday, June 30, 7pm at the Barn
Gig Economy Playhouse
Josh Rollin & Calvin Kasulke
A fiction podcast run as it’s named; episodes are written and produced quickly, and the actors are cast via websites and apps.
Rated PG-13
Thursdays at 11am and Sundays at 1pm, July 5 - September 2 at the Criterion Theatre
The Barn Arts Collective presents
Bee Parks and the Hornets
A theatrical concert party featuring an insect indie pop-rock band for all ages and species.
Rated G
$7 tickets available at criteriontheatre.org
Saturday, July 7, 7pm at the Barn
Homeisland Project
Andrea Lepcio
We live here. A collaborative creation project with local actors.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Saturday, July 14, 5pm at the Barn
HAMILTON PROJECT X
10 artists. 10 days. 10 projects. 10 year anniversary.
Sara and Basil
Mary Rose Go
A musical about a young girl and her spiritual guidance cat who helps her navigate a difficult childhood.
Rated PG
---
Panache
Keurim Hur
Not consciously based on Cyrano de Bergerac but named for it anyway, Panache is a play about emotionally exhausted women of color who fake the perfect white male ally on social media so that the battles they've been fighting can finally be won - on Facebook, at least.
Rated PG
---
m(y)o͝oˈlädō
Alexis Ingram
A personal exploration of a woman's life growing up Half-Black and Half-White in New England.
Rated PG-13
---
Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)
Julia Izumi
Akira Kurosawa will hopefully explain his movies to you, and he 100%, definitely, without a doubt will explain yogurt to you.
Rated PG-13
---
The Castaway Cabaret
Jake Simonds
A harrowing tale of survival, as told thru song and dance.
Rated PG-13
---
Daily Rituals
Talia Rothstein
Drawing inspiration from the environmental and social context at the Barn, Daily Rituals is a series of daily performances celebrating the relationship of the artist to her community.
Rated PG
---
It's in the Bag
Rachel Karp
The magic of Old Time Radio combines with the misogyny of classic and contemporary America to ask: how long will a woman becoming president be just a joke?
Rated PG
---
Бабишка | BAb(oo)shka
Anna Lublina
An interdisciplinary performance that uses storytelling, live-translation, puppetry, and campy reenactment to expose the realities of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and how those experiences translate across generations and migrations.
Rated PG-13
---
SPIT OUT THE DIRT
Kristi Stout
A poetry collection that attempts to disentangle questions concerning womanhood, identity, losses, past and current hearts.
Rated PG-13
---
SURFACE (working title)
Clare Cook
A collaborative performance piece using the body as medium to forge relationships between painting, sound and movement.
Rated PG
PLUS:
The Barn
Blake Horn
A collection of film-vignettes focusing on artists' stories, processes, inspirations, and works.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, July 21, 7pm at the Barn
Island Environmental: A View of MDI through Photography, Science and Word
Cheryl Novins & Michele Benoit
Exploring conservation issues on MDI through the use of photography with a nod to science, prose, and the spoken word.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Make your reservation here
Wednesday, July 25, 7pm at Joanna's studio: 8 Oak Hill Rd, Somesville
Under the Light
The dancer and the painter: Jan Pinkerton and Joanna Logue
A new work daring to expose the underlying resilience that reveals our identity, and exploring themes common to the human condition such as fear, loss and courage.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Make your reservation here
Saturday, July 28, 7pm at the Barn
FORA
Jae Broderick and Matthew AC Cohen
When You Fall In Love, You Will Remember: A musical about love, family and country told through the eyes of 17 year old Gigi and the citizens of the island nation of Forafu.
Rated PG
---
The Casualties of Need
Cayenne Douglass, playwright. Nikki DiLoreto, director.
As Shane, a 26 year old biracial woman begins to heal the fragmented relationship with her father she discovers that some of her anger towards him has less to do with who he is but what he is, black. Shane’s realization about her father’s blackness forces her to examine the blackness in her and confront a deep shame stemming from an internalized racism, which she had yet to consciously identify.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, August 4, 2pm at the Barn
Querelle de Brest Ballet Project
Byron Asher
Byron will spend his residency orchestrating a score for a new ballet adaptation of "Querelle de Brest" by Jean Genet. His time will culminate in a performance of excerpts of the new piece plus other works and improvisations with MDI musician and composer Danny Fisher-Lochhead, among others.
Rated PG
Saturday, August 4, 7pm at the Barn
W
Sketching Staccato
Original music meets visual art in this multidisciplinary exploration of the “wild woman” archetype and embodied living.
Rated PG-13
---
Gnomes of Bass Harbor
Nekyia Theatre
A vocal, theatrical and mythic celebration of the magical creatures that lurk in Bass Harbor.
Rated PG-13
Saturday, August 11, 7pm at the Barn
The Worker Must Have Bread, but She Must Have Roses Too
Ayla McCarthy Combes (Writer/Director), Working Girls (Ensemble)
An all-immigrant and all-female cast brings new life to the story of the young factory workers who were victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911
Rated PG-13
---
Find Out
Danny Fisher-Lochhead, Ross Gallagher, and Ari Chersky
Instead of working to realize the vision of only one member of this group, Find Out is an expression of each of our musical lives -- our personal interests, curiosities, and passions -- and of the life of the group as a whole.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG
August 19, 3pm at the Saltair Inn (Aug 18 rained out!) AND August 25-26, 3pm at the NEH Marina
Shakespeare By the Sea
A collaboration between the Barn Arts Collective and Acadia Community Theatre
The Barn Arts adaptations of Shakespeare’s 12th Night! and Tempest performed in rep, featuring original music and a chorus of community members.
Rated PG
Tickets available on-site
Saturday, August 18, 7pm at the Barn
Emma Goldman's Good Tyme Anarchist Ice Cream Cafe
Kate Sheridan & Christine Freije
A one-woman exploration of the true historical story of legendary lady anarchist Emma Goldman's one-time ice cream shop ownership, the assassination it inspired, and the still all-too-pertinent themes of men, money, and power - WITH ICE CREAM!
Rated PG-13
Thursday, August 23, 6:30pm at the Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Adventures of Miss Susan: Children’s Librarian of the Southwest Harbor Public Library
Brittany Parker
A wordless puppet show about the world's best children's librarian
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated G
Saturday, August 25, 7pm at the Barn
SPACE DOGS OF THE COSMODROME
Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes
Two artists chart the parallels between the creative process and the use of canine cosmonauts during the Cold War Space Race.
Rated PG-13
---
An Intervention.
The Harpers Theatre
"An Intervention." follows one young woman's struggle with alcoholism and the effects of her addiction on the people who love her.
*Part of our Local Residency Series, featuring local artists and stories
Rated PG-13
Saturday, September 1, 7pm at the Barn
The Sixth Day
Andrea Ang
Inspired by the Creation Story, The Sixth Day re-imagines the widely-known narrative as a tragic tale of love and loss through wordless puppetry and movement.
Rated PG
---
Mother Kofi: The Tale of an African Princess
Alphonso Horne
Laura Adorka Kofi, known to her followers as “Mother Kofi” was a Ghanaian princess, sent on a mission to travel to America and deliver a message of invitation, union and self-help.
Rated PG
Saturday, September 29, 11am at the Barn
Breath: An Experience for the Very Young
Parachute Theatre for the Very Young
“A baby being born in the sky”... Breath is a nurturing sensory experience for pre-crawling babies and their caretakers inspired by stories of airplanes.
Rated G
Saturday, September 29, 7pm at the Barn
Little
Kristin McCarthy Parker, Colin Waitt, Wes Zurick
A hilarious and heartfelt reimagining of Chicken Little for family audiences, complete with bluegrass music and puppets.
Rated G
Saturday, October 13, 2pm, location TBD
meSSeS
Janoah anygoodjokes? Bailin
Learn to juggle in this participatory performance, using mesmerizing movements of objects, bodies and words.
*Part of Southwest Harbor Days
Rated G
Saturday, October 20, 7pm at the Barn
Mommy and Me
Leonie Bell
The four residents of a whale’s belly throw temper tantrums, call your moms, try to go to sleep, and sing mass lullabies in an attempt to sing their stranded selves back to safer waters.
Rated PG-13
---
The Marrow in the Bone
Jane Denitz Smith (playwright), Tara Elliott (director), Peter S. Smith (co-director)
Loosely based on actual events in 19th century Russia: the publication of cookbook sensation Elena Molokhovets’ "A Gift to Young Housewives" converges—to the day-- with Tsar Alexander II’s proclamation emancipating her serf.
Rated PG-13