Shows

Previews: January, 27th - February 4th

Opening: Monday, February 6th @ 7pm

Closes: Sunday, March 11th

Showing every Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 8pm, Sundays @ 3pm

The Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N. Lincoln Ave

 

Written By: Keith Josef Adkins*  Directed By: Kimberly Crutcher*

Strange things are happening in Sweet Home. A once thriving black town, it is now an urban wasteland with a peculiar problem: all the black boys are missing. When Demus, a quirky young genetic engineer, stumbles into Sweet Home seeking refuge, he quickly finds himself tangled in the bizarre mystery. He also must make a choice—become the next missing black boy, or engineer the perfect indestructible black boy and save Sweet Home forever.

*Denotes Resident Artist

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A late night foray into the world of one-person performance.

Opening: Wednesday, February 8th @ 8pm

Closes: Saturday March 10th

Showing every Friday and Saturday @ 11pm

The Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.

Tickets Only $12!!!

 

Wednesday February 8th @ 8pm- Opening Performance and Panel Discussion

Performances by Tim'm T. West and Jonathan Kitt. Panel with Chuck Smith (Resident Director MPPACT, The Goodman), Timothy Douglas (Artistic Director Remy Bumppo) Jocelyn Prince (Artistic Dir. Sankofa Theatre Co., Artistic Assoc. Victory Gardens).

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Friday, February 10 @ 11pm

Tim'm T. West

Ready, Set, Grow: A Coming of Age Story

Critically acclaimed rapper and Spoken Word Artist Tim'm T. West speaks to the question: What becomes of little black boys who've considered suicide robbed of any rites of passage? Inspired by the works of James Baldwin, Hélène Cixous, and his mentors Ntozake Shange and Carl Hancock Rux, Tim'm offers a coming of age story, through spoken word, rap, movement, and song, that suggests an inalienable right to these rites. Moving through the complex maze of American poverty, racism, sexism, and sexuality, "Ready, Set, Grow" suggests that "waiting for superman" may not be as empowering as becoming a super man. How do we save ourselves? How do we respect the diversity and complexity of black male experience when so many young men, objectified and stigmatized at birth, are sucked into a system recycling defeatist and hopeless futures. One man, through his own transparent, vulnerable, and redemptive experiences offers one way he strives in spite of racism, poverty, homophobia, HIV/AIDS. Surely there are other ways: Ready. Set. Let's Grow!

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Saturday, February 11th @ 11pm

Kristiana Rae Colon

Cry Wolf

Poet, actress, and playwright Kristiana Colón weaves a tapestry of poem, lyric, metaphor, and monologue to excavate the wolves of our imagination. Gliding between naturalism and surrealism, ethnographic persona and autobiographical voice, this collage of portraits explores questions of gender, mental health, and politics.

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Friday, February 17th @ 11pm

Mateo Smith

Life: According to Thelma Dale

The piece tracks the unusual going's-on of the elderly but spicy Matriarch Thelma Dale Johnson. The audience has somehow "shown-up" on her doorstep and she invites the group on a journey through the ups and down's of the life she's known...Her life, as she see's it. Unaware, Thelma Dale is upstaged by her hip and fresh grandson, Jerome who shows up to "set all accounts straight." The voice of reason and blatant truth, Jerome serves as the antithesis to Thelma Dale's ideologies of everyday southern life. The audience then is left to answer, on their own, whether or not what Thelma divulges as "life" is actually myth, fact or on a blurred line in-between.

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Saturday, February 18th @ 11pm

Nicole Mithcell

Nowever 

Creative Flutist Nicole Mitchell will present her first solo performance featuring an interweaving of her prose with her music in NOWEVER. Nicole Mitchell is known for her work in jazz, but this event will premiere a window into her personal story – hardships, dreams, love and otherworld adventures illustrated through her words and original music.

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Friday, February 24th @ 11pm

 Osiris Khepera

The Fag-tionary

Exploring acceptance (& the lack thereof) of different sexualities from around the globe, particularly as it affects those of us from the African Diaspora. The Fag-tionary is an evening of poetry, drag, and cultural celebration.

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Saturday, February 25th @ 11pm

Jonathan Kitt

Superman, Black Man, Me! A Stage Essay

All Black men are supermen, some just haven’t tapped into it yet.” Jonathan Kitt chronicles the supermen and the situations that helped to shape his character. Expressed through thoughts, questions, opinions, rants, and drama, this performance piece juxtaposes the mythology of two things: the great white superhero that dons a red and blue suit to save the day and the challenges of being a classic Black man fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.

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Friday March 2nd @ 11pm

Wardell Clark

The Ground on Which He Stood: A Tribute to August Wilson 

Combining his Legendary Theatre Communications Group (TCG) address, his Final Interview with Suzan Lori-Parks from American Theatre Magazine, while showcasing his specific writing style with select Aria's from his Cycle for a night of Insight, Celebration and Homage.

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Saturday, March 3rd @ 11pm

Coco Elysses

You Can't Hide

You Can't Hide explores the shock, realization, gifts and fears surrounding the impact mother’s have on their daughters. Y'vette, takes us on comical journey through short stories and song on the things that make her smile and squint inherited from her mother.

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Friday, March 9th @ 11pm

Elana Elyce

Acceptable Plagiarism

A product of total collaboration, Acceptable Plagiarism, is created (not stolen!) entirely with the work of other writers (and some folks who've never written at all). Invited to write anything they'd like for this project, contributors submitted monologues, poems, stories-and even a few one-liners, for Elana to share in performance. Some of it explores their personal relationship with the performer, some of it contains words that have been lying on the shelf waiting for a voice, and some of it is just plain imagination. All of it is original, inspiring and fun.

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Saturday March 10th @ 11pm

William Kurk*

Sector 9

Original compositions by William Kurk, written in the pseudo-broadway spirit.

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*Denotes resident artist

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Opening: Sunday, February 12th @ 6pm

Closes: Sunday, March 4th @6pm

Showing Every Sunday @ 6pm

The Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.

Written By Sati Word** Directed By Marie Cisco**

Buck O’Neil was a true ambassador of baseball. An athletic, soft handed first baseman and longtime manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, a talented scout eying young stars from Billy Williams, Oscar Gamble and Ernie Banks for the Chicago Cubs to Bo Jackson for the Kansas City Royals and the Major League’s first black coach. As the driving force behind the Negro League Hall of Fame on the corner of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Buck O’Neil was the last to tell the stories of the great ballplayers that had long passed before him, a responsibility he never took lightly. In 'Baseball Music: The Sweetest Sound' Buck takes us through the glorious victories and the heartbreaking defeats of a life dedicated to the game of baseball and the tales of those who left us too soon for their voices to be heard.

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Previews: May 11th - 20th

Opening: Sunday, May 20th @ 3pm

Closes: Sunday, June 24th

Showing every Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 8pm, Sundays @ 3pm

The Greenhouse Theater Center 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.

 

Written By: Carla Stillwell**  Directed By: Chuck Smith*

The church is a place of faith and refuge, salvation and hope, support and nurturing. The religion oils the machine, but it's the people—the Reverend, his wife, the deacons and the sisters--who makes sure that it runs. But, the New Light Missionary Baptist Church with church heads the Rev. Joseph Black and his wife Corena Black are different. When it comes to dealing with family, well it's a bit more complicated. The reverend's brother Calvin has encountered a few troubles. Ten Years ago his marriage ended abruptly leaving him to raise his young daughter alone. As questions of his sexuality begin to surface, Rev. Joseph thinks the answer is for his brother to marry a woman from the church, but Corena, begins to think there are other questions to be asked and she finds herself confronting the lengths she'll go to maintain her niece's well-being.

**Denotes Company Member  *Denotes Resident Artist

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