Ms. Kron delivers the almost Shakespearean epilogue, concluding, "Ladies and gentlemen, in you we trust: There must be happy endings, must, must, must!" I hope I don't sound too hectoring myself when I suggest that theater engaging heart, mind and funny bone as nimbly as this production deserves as wide and welcoming an audience as anything I've seen this season.
Just as important, the opera theater engaged in substantial educational and outreach initiatives, including a panel discussion among Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders.
For nearly a year, they had been preparing "Logic of the Birds (Phase One)," a new hybrid in which film and music theater engage in a dialogue and characters seem to walk from the screen to the stage and back again.
The theater engaged the innovative Handspring Puppet Company, based in Cape Town, South Africa, to design life-size puppets for Joey and the other important equine character, Topthorn, a stallion who shares with Joey a troubled fate that includes capture by the Germans.
This year the troupe's Outreach Dance Theater has engaged a variety of teaching artists, who will offer workshops in writing, theater, visual arts and music, as well as dance.
Why not?" In his first months in charge he spent $45 million of his own money on renovating the theater and engaged Mr. Ruzimatov to direct the ballet company.
Irondale -- a 17-year-old company that often performs in prisons, schools and shelters -- is expressly devoted to a Brechtian aesthetic of a theater actively engaged with social and political realities.
They discussed tactics like flash mobs and other "street theater" to engage the media, and brainstormed ways to get white supremacists elected into public office. .
As they say in theater, Pippin breaks the "fourth wall" -- it tackles the conventions of theater itself by engaging the audience.
By fate, these potentially gratuitous and self-indulgent elements coalesced into effective, engaging theater.
It is also a potent reminder of the vast changes that have been wrought in the American theater landscape over the past three decades, particularly at a time when the most prominent American plays and musicals are developed in the regional houses before they ever come to Broadway and when commercial producers and nonprofit theaters routinely engage in financial and artistic partnerships.
