Andra Day is a powerful singer and artful songwriter who isn't merely a throwback R&B specialist; her roots in gospel, jazz, and the blues, displayed with ease and finesse, translate to the present. Cheers to the Fall (2015), her auspicious debut, cracked the Top Ten of the R&B/hip-hop charts and paved the way for a […]

1500 or Nothin' is a highly successful, Grammy-nominated American musical ensemble based in Los Angeles, composed of an all-star collective of record producers, songwriters, and studio/touring musicians who have been a major force in Hip-Hop, R&B, and Pop music since their founding in 2006. The collective includes core members such as producer/CEO Larrance "Rance" Dopson, […]

This unique combination of artists—Chris Dave, Marcus King, Cory Henry, and DJ Ginyard—represents an exciting, genre-blending super-collective, known primarily for their intimate live performances rather than studio albums. The group brings together four masters from distinct musical realms to create a raw, improvisational fusion. Chris Dave, often hailed as "the most dangerous drummer alive," provides […]

The event DAVID BENOIT: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS is a popular annual holiday tribute led by the Grammy Award-nominated American contemporary jazz pianist and composer David Benoit, who is also a host on KJAZZ radio. The concert is a loving homage to the 1965 animated classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, specifically celebrating the iconic, foundational […]

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE MUSICAL DIRECTION BY JOSH BARTLEY DIRECTED BY JAMES ESPOSITO Passion is a one act musical adapted from Ettore Scola’s film Passione d’Amore, itself adapted from the novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. Set in Risorgimento-era Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by his obsessive love […]

This play was suggested by a true incident. A professor accuses a student of cheating. Suddenly, the professor finds himself being investigated for discrimination. His reputation and livelihood are on the line. What will the investigation’s findings be? The cast includes: Nina Bell, Rasha Elabaji, Andree Mulia, Morry Schorr, Aziz Tazi, Sammie Wayne IV, and […]

WRITTEN BY ZACHARY BONES DIRECTED BY CARLY DW BONES   The Aaron Play picks up right where Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, leaves off: with its self-proclaimed villain, Aaron the Moor, buried up to his chest in earth, sentenced to death by starvation. Watched by two Roman guards and visited by spirits of the wronged dead, Aaron plots […]

Open Fist Theatre Company is thrilled to present the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of Franz Kafka's first novel. The story begins with 17-year-old Karl Rossmann's arrival in New York City on a steamer, only to immediately be plunged into a sequence of increasingly strange and bewildering experiences that shatter his reality as […]

The play Bias, written and directed by Art Shulman, is a contemporary drama inspired by a true incident. The story focuses on a professor who accuses one of his students of cheating. Immediately following this accusation, the professor finds himself under investigation for discrimination. The plot revolves around his desperate struggle to defend his professional […]

Radha Bharadwaj’s powerful, critically acclaimed masterpiece has been performed all over the world. This tense psychological thriller revolves around the arrest and interrogation of an author who is suspected of communicating subversive messages through her children’s stories. Her captor wields his cat-and-mouse games to discover the truth hidden inside Closet Land. Bharadwaj is able to […]

Autry Museum and Greenway Arts Alliance present the Native Voices National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma). Ash and Aaron have been dead for twenty years, and the Indigenous siblings pass their time dancing to Britney Spears, haunting the families that try to move into their house, and […]