Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage to April 21, 2024
It could hardly be more fitting that the Arts Club opened Red Velvet, a 2012 play by Lolita Chakrabarti, on March 27, 2024, International Theatre Day because the main issue raised in the play – set in 1833 and 1867 – persists to this day.
Quincy Armorer as Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Performance Works to March 17, 2024
How often do we hear the phrase – or say it ourselves – “I’m here for you”? That’s what friends say, right? But what if friends find themselves on opposites sides of an issue? Take Israel and Palestine, for example; can friendship survive a difference of opinion when it comes to genocide?
Christiaan Westerveld as B and Kate Craven as A in An Intervention. Credit: Danielle Merchant