The Legend of Georgia McBride
by Matthew López

Location: Burbage Theatre Company in Pawtucket, RI
Performances: May 15-June 8, 2025
More information coming soon!

The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University

Workshop presentation of “Linda Rae” from Longing to Tell by Tricia Rose

Adapted by Akua Naru

Artists: Akua Naru, Chloe Ovbiagele, Osiris Russell-Delano, Navaiya Williams (pictured below)

Dates: November 11-12, 2024
Churchill House, 155 Angell Street, Providence, RI

Boston Theater Marathon XXVI at Boston Playwrights' Theatre - Boston University

Wolfman and Janice by John Manderdino

Director: Gia Yarn
Stage Managers: Ania Briscoe, Gabriela López Ruiz
Frank/Wolfman: Rodney Witherspoon II
Jancie: Nina Giselle
Mrs. Krapilowsi: Lynne Collinson

A special thank you to both the Boston Theater Marathon XXVI team and Trinity Rep's Costume, Prop, Production and Artistic shops and offices.

Performance: May 5, 2024

About:
The Boston Theater Marathon XXVI features 50 ten-minute plays written by New England playwrights and presented by New England theatre companies which donate their time and talent to this annual event. Net proceeds are gifted to the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, which helps area theatre artists and companies in crisis. The Theatre Community Benevolent Fund's (TCBF) mission is to provide financial relief in a confidential, respectful manner to individual theatre practitioners of Greater Boston and the surrounding areas, facing occurrences of a catastrophic nature including but not limited to extreme illness, devastating acts of nature, housing emergencies, vandalism, and theft, and who have limited or no resources with which to handle such events. TCBF recognizes the essential value of artists and arts organizations to society, and treats all applicants with dignity, discretion, and compassion.

The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University

The Providence Garden Blues: A Salon

Written by George Houston Bass
Reimagined by Dr. Lisa Biggs
Directed by Gia Yarn
Musical Direction: Akua Naru and Becky Bass ‘13

November 16, 2023 @ 7:00pm
Churchill House, 155 Angell Street, Providence, RI

A celebration and staged reading of “The Providence Garden Blues,” a 1970s play written by George Houston Bass, reimagined by Lisa Biggs. Based on true events drawn from oral histories with local seniors, “The Providence Garden Blues” recounts one Black family’s fight to stop the destruction of their home on the city’s historic Eastside.