Heads up for the week of Feb. 22-28, 2021

by Lynn on February 22, 2021

in The Passionate Playgoer

Mon. Feb. 22, 2021, 7:00 pm

In Good Company: Education and the Arts.

A panel of high school teachers discuss the importance of arts education with Arkady Spivak the Artistic Producer of Talk Is Free Theatre.

www.tift.ca

Mon. Feb. 22, 2021, 7:30 pm

Streaming from Red Bull Theatre:

The Belle’s Stratagem.

Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch

Featuring Cecil BaldwinJasmine Batchelor, Mark Bedard, Neal Bledsoe, Lilli Cooper, Peter Jay Fernandez, Santino Fontana, Tony Jenkins, Lauren Karaman, Aaron Krohn, Heather Alicia Simms, and Chauncy Thomas

In this light-hearted comedy of courtship, the knife-sharp Letitia has been betrothed to the foppish Doricourt since childhood, but she fears she is soon to be trapped in a loveless marriage. With the help of the sly Mrs. Racket, the saucy Mrs. Ogle, and country Lady Frances Touchwood – whose sniveling husband is terrified of her discovering city life – Letitia hatches a plan to fascinate her fiancé, ensuring that he knows he is soon to be wed to an equal partner. The women conspire to open the eyes of the men – dancing rings around them at a masquerade ball where mistaken identities ensure joyous resolution. Written in 1780, Hannah Cowley’s rom-com romp is a timeless and triumphant cry for love, decency, and equality.

www.redbulltheater.com

Mon. Feb. 22, 2021. Streams until Feb. 28.

The Colored Museum

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival streams George C. Wolfe’s bracing satire about African-American stereotypes set in a museum. Click the link below and then scroll down.

https://gem.godaddy.com/p/5be7e11?pact=795429-161876990-13019205503-ecdd524773ff23aedb6ef6356a216f7ce5bdf3e2

Tue. Feb. 23, 2021, 7:00 pm

4th Line Theatre hosts fascinating conversations with artists.

Kim Blackwell, Managing Artistic Director of 4th Line Theater and Beau Dixon, actor-musician-composer-playwright-extraordinaire has a conversation about is life and art.

https://www.4thlinetheatre.on.ca

Fri. Feb. 26, 2021.

21 Black Futures

Obsidian Theatre and CBC Gem present the final season of seven monodramas focusing on the Future of Blackness. Terrific playlets written, directed and acted by Black artists.

https://www.cbc.ca/artsprojects/21blackfutures

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