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A Separate Peace
Based on the novel by John Knowles, one actor portrays two best friends: Gene, an introverted academic, and Phineas, a handsome, daredevil athlete. In the summer of 1942, their lives collide and boys at play become men on the brink of war.
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SAT 28 @ 2:30
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American Gypsy
Theatre unites with sleight-of-hand magic as the greatest magician nobody’s ever heard of clashes with his teacher over the significance of a life on the street. One actor-magician explores how to build connection in an art-form based on deception.
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TUE 24 @ 5
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As You Like It
Shakespeare, with a twist! BAMA Theatre Company brings you a gender-bending good time! In true BTC style 8 actors pull 21 characters out of 1 trunk making the impossible possible in this wild comedy. This ain't your traditional love story!
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SUN 15 @ NOON
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BUNKED!: A New Musical
Bunked features the exploits of five summer camp counselors as they embark on their first taste of adulthood. Fatal secrets, impassioned jealousy and triangular love trysts entangle the counselors as the bittersweet end of summer approaches.
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FRI 20 @ 4:15
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Dear Harvey
Stories of Harvey Milk, gay rights activist and humanitarian - the people he knew, the lives he changed. Intimate, surprising stories based on interviews with Harvey's nephew, his campaign manager, the AIDS Quilt founder, and other friends and activists.
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SUN 22 @ 4:30
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Did You Do Your Homework?
The show spotlights the realities - comical, tragic, and inspiring - of the Los Angeles public school system and one teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom. One actor, many characters, all of whom you’ll recognize.
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SAT 14 @ 2
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GirlPower: Survival of the Fittest
In deeply personal material based on real interviews and experiences, twenty young women explore topics such as peer pressure, relationships, body image, being an outcast or different or flawed, and being full of dreams for the future.
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THUR 26 @ 4
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HAMLETTES
Three 12-year-old girls are staging THE play. To determine the #1 actor, Alexandra (Hamlet), Ophelia (Ophelia), and Chloe (everyone else) agree to NEVER drop character. Denmark's tale magnifies their frenemy quibbles into a very real tween tragedy.
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SAT 21 @ NOON
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Hip Hop High - The Musical
This urban tale centers on newcomer Drew Moore who witnesses a murder by fellow students at Hip Hop High. Drew must choose between being a cowardly bystander or fighter. Hip hop dance will be his secret weapon and rap will be his battle cry!
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SAT 21 @ 4:45
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In Loco Parentis
When her mother died three years ago, Carly thought she'd learned everything she needed to know. Her English teacher disagrees, and uses Hamlet to challenge her to emotionally engage. In the process, they develop a complicated relationship.
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SAT 28 @ 2
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Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator
The Gangbusters Theatre Company brings its trademark Speed & Violence to Orson Welles' adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece. Set in a militant future and scored to the music of Metallica, this one-act production will punch you in the throat.
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SAT 14 @ 7
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LEMONADE: A Play of World Domination
When the world’s 2nd and 3rd richest corporate tycoons (who happen to be husband and wife) conspire to sell sunlight, their scheming has unexpected consequences: cloned butlers, angry pussycats, economic armageddon. Disaster, or a world ripe for conquering?
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MON 16 @ 5
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LENNY'S DEAD
“My name is Hank. That guy over there, that's Lenny. Lenny’s dead. He was killed in Vietnam 1971." Hell of a way to start a show. Wait till you see the end. A poignant, witty drama, that explores the choices and consequences of being a soldier.
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TUE 17 @ 4:15
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Perspectives
Experience a world of unpredictable consequences, chance encounters, and undeniable change. Choreographers from Alaska, Oklahoma, and New York collaborate to create movement inspired by wildfires, divination, and the changing Arctic.
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WED 18 @ 5
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Playing By Air
Do..re..mi..fa..getaboutit! A struggling violinist seeks inspiration in the most unlikely of places as he enters a world filled with flying objects, bumbling musicians, and a motif that is just out of reach. A dramatic fusion of music, circus and theater.
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FRI 20 @ 2
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RASH
What if your dream job could kill you? A Scottish woman's journey as a UN human rights worker, living and loving under fire in post-genocide Rwanda, where she experiences human nature at its worst and love at its best. A one woman play.
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FRI 27 @ 4:15
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Tristan & Isolde
Warrior Tristan carries beautiful Irish Princess Isolde across the sea to marry his uncle, Mark, in a symbolic political alliance. But Tristan and Isolde fall deeply in love along the way. A poetic tragedy of love, betrayal and loss, set in ancient times.
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TUE 17 @ 4:45
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Two Girls
A friendship blossoms and struggles in the "new" South Africa. Moving in time and place from Mandela's South Africa to Obama's America, two girls from very different worlds -- one black, one Jewish -- take on the trauma that apartheid left behind.
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WED 25 @ 4
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UBA BOUNCE
UBA, a large rambunctious circus globe, acts as ‘Ring Master’ in a world where brightly colored balls and courageous dancers are equal partners. By balancing, spinning, and gliding they create rollicking dances filled with imagination, beauty and humor.
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SUN 15 @ 4
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When Last We Flew
After stealing his library's only copy of Angels in America, misfit teenager Paul begins reading. Over the course of a seemingly ordinary day, extraordinary things start to happen, and Paul discovers that his dull Midwestern life is about to take flight.
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THUR 19 @ 4:45
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When Lilacs Last
Two promising young men struggle with abusive fathers, sexual orientation, and bigotry while coming of age. Set against poetry of Walt Whitman: a searing experience of devastation--innocence and desire overwhelmed by ignorance and brutality.
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