Press: Ripe Frenzy
L.A. Times: 'Ripe Frenzy,' a play about a school shooting, provokes thought with lyricism and restraint L.A. Weekly: Ripe Frenzy: A Chillingly Emotional Play on Mass School Shootings ...
01 May, 2018
Author: grooveva
Ripe Frenzy Rolls Into Greenway Court Theatre May 17 – June 17
WINNER of the 2016 NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre, Ripe Frenzy submerges us in the before, during and after of a mass shooting in a small-town high school theatre, during opening night of its 40th production of Our Town. Told from the perspective of the mothers of the town,...
10 April, 2018
Poems are Gay – Night Two of the L.A. Get Down
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30 March, 2018
Heartstorms – Night Six of the L.A. Get Down
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20 March, 2018
Night Five of the Get Down
[su_button url="https://greenwayartsalliance.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F0f00001lkun1EAA" target="blank" style="flat" background="#497527" icon=""]Buy Tickets[/su_button] Queen Sheba and DJ Knodat bring their roving battle to Los Angeles for the first time on April 19 @ 9 PM at the Greenway Court Theatre. IS POETRY AND HIP-HOP REALLY ONE IN THE SAME? HAVE EMCEES FORGOTTEN THEIR ROOTS? IS...
19 March, 2018
Spiritrials – Night One of the Get Downf
[su_button url="https://greenwayartsalliance.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F0f00001qzs8yEAA" target="blank" style="flat" background="#497527" icon=""]Buy Tickets[/su_button] In Spiritrials, addiction, religion, and the law intersect in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. A timely exploration of the American criminal justice system, this multi-dimensional play blurs the line between hip-hop and dramatic performance. Dahlak Brathwaite (writer/performer) weaves through...
07 March, 2018
Urban Theatre Movement in Residency at Greenway Court Theatre presents Yerma in the Desert 11/17 – 12/16
Yerma is desperate for a child, but her husband Juan shies from her touch. How can she reconcile her urge for motherhood, maintain her sense of honor, and still do her job without going mad? Set in an elite university, YERMA IN THE DESERT focuses on the custodial...
23 September, 2017
Greenway Arts Alliance presents The House on Mango Street 9/29 – 10/28
THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET centers around the life of young Latina Esperanza Cordero, as she undergoes her personal journey into adulthood. As she matures, Esperanza encounters the harsh realities of puberty as well the hardships witnessed in her family and her Mango Street neighborhood....
12 September, 2017
Coeurage Theatre Company presents Nicky by Boni Alvarez
Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, playwright Alvarez transforms the world of 1800s Russia into present-day Palm Springs. Under the piercing desert sun, characters plod through the unforgiving heat, clinging to their self-described identities while chasing after and running away from their true desires. Nicky was...
11 May, 2017