Posts Tagged ‘Theatricum Botanicum’

WENDY’S PETER PAN


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum treats audiences to their most kids-friendly show in memory with Wendy’s Peter Pan, Ellen Geer’s reimagining of the J.M. Barrie classic as told by a now grown-up Wendy Darling to her three precocious offspring.
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THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE


If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN


That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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A PERFECT GANESH

Theatricum Botanicum takes a break from the Bard in its otherwise entirely Shakespearean 2023 season with Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, a play not nearly as appealing as McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only A Play, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and Love! Valour! Compassion!
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THE WEST SIDE WALTZ


It’s a family affair at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum as the legendary Grandpa Walton’s eldest daughter Ellen Geer, her sister Melora Marshall, and Ellen’s daughter Willow Geer make theatrical magic in The West Side Waltz, Ernest Thompson’s captivating slice of 1980s New York life.
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TROUBLE THE WATER


Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum pays tribute to a little-known figure in African-American history in Ellen Geer’s illuminating, emotion-packed biodrama Trouble The Water, freely adapted from Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s award-winning 2019 novel of the same name.
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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR


Set in the Eisenhower 1950s and featuring a Goodness Gracious Great Bunch of Top 40 oldies, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s The Merry Wives Of Windsor takes comedic flight as the inspired vision of director Ellen Geer, who’s not afraid to alter the text if it earns laughter to do Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel proud.
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JULIUS CAESAR


Adeptly trimmed to a brisk eighty minutes by Theatricum Botanicum legend Ellen Geer and filled with as much action as it is with political intrigue, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adds up to classical theater as thrillingly staged as it is easily accessible to 21st Century audiences.
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