This summer, live theatre is back, it’s Black, and it’s going to blow your mind! Hosted on the gorgeously picturesque lawn at King Arthur Baking Company in Norwich, Vermont – JAG Productions will be performing 5 weekends of theatre, from August 13 to September 12.
JAG Productions is one of the nation’s leading incubators of new works by Black playwrights and in its inaugural year won the New England Theatre Conference’s (NETC) Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre. In 2017, the company launched JAGfest, an annual festival of new works celebrating the talents of African-American playwrights, which has already launched an Off-Broadway production.
JAG Productions is back The Center for Cartoon Studies rehearsing for Theatre on The Hill at King Arthur Baking Company with A CURIOUS THING; OR SUPERHEROES K’AINT FLY by Jeremy O’Brian and Directed by Sideeq Heard, August 13-15. A 90-minute queer romance about parenthood and death. Virgo and Aries have just passed the newlywed stage when they start to reconsider their plans to become parents. As they ask the hard question, they uncover deep-seated fears. a curious thing; or superheroes k’ain’t fly is an electric and boldly touching play exploring the universal question of parenthood in a world laden with danger.
Buy tickets now for all Theatre on the Hill performances!
https://www.jagproductionsvt.com/theatre-on-a-hill
Photo: Sharonna Henderson.
NEXT UP:
NEXT TO NORMAL
Concert Staging
Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and Music by Tom Kitt
Directed by Jarvis Green
August 20-22, August 27-29
Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal is an unflinching look at a family struggling with the effects of mental illness. Exploring how one suburban household copes with mental health and crisis, Next to Normal was also chosen as “one of the year’s ten best shows” by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
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