Events & Projects
Series in development for 2024 / Please check back
You Are Here is a multimedia series in development, about how contemporary life and values evolved to be what we know today. Who crafted the precepts by which we live and work? How? Why? How have they changed over time, and how do they support us in the world we find ourselves living in today?
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Call Me By My Name
A stage and film project and 2023 documentary about and with members of the unhoused community, 2018-2021
Acting Our Age: Using Our Voices
With a professional production team, The Works (aka Playworks) develops and produces stage and film projects that broaden perspective on local and global communities, and often include partnerships with sponsors and co-producers. Click the linked titles below for more about some of the current / recent ones.
On the map of life
You Are Here (Series in development for 2024 / Please check back
You Are Here is a multimedia series in development, about how contemporary life and values evolved to be what we know today. Who crafted the precepts by which we live and work? How? Why? How have they changed over time, and how do they support us in the world we find ourselves living in today?
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A stage and film project and 2023 documentary about and with members of the unhoused community, 2018-2021
Over the course of three years, six people who have lived without homes met weekly to tell their stories and to create this authentic look at life on the streets from those who have experienced it. The project also includes a documentary film about the participants that explores a world hiding in plain sight, as the film follows them in their daily lives. (Produced in association with First United Methodist Church)
"I left with the feeling that it had allowed participants to open doors that had long been closed. It accomplished what the arts can do so well...breathe life into the human condition." Audience member Marilyn Sarow
"If we can unravel this, we can let others in on what we figured out." Cast member Hilda Mojica
"I left with the feeling that it had allowed participants to open doors that had long been closed. It accomplished what the arts can do so well...breathe life into the human condition." Audience member Marilyn Sarow
"If we can unravel this, we can let others in on what we figured out." Cast member Hilda Mojica
A series of stage and film documentaries with people whose life stories collectively reveal America's story over the past century
Sponsored by Aldersgate 2018-2023
In the original AOA, seven people ages 73 to 95 met for 15 months to document their lives and to create Acting Our Age: A Century of America in Seven Voices, a stage-and-film documentary that traces those lives 'from then to now.' Their experiences intersect with nearly everything that's happened in America over the past 100 years. AOA became a series that shows how history happened through close-ups on people who lived it. Voices of the Pandemic (2021) is a film documentary about how seven people navigated life during a year like no other. The series continued with the live performance and the event film of Using Our Voices (2022-2023), tracing how The Silent Generation paved the way for the Boomers.
"The humor, the sadness, the challenges and the events of nearly 100 years of American history, shared through the lives of these seven people, were a joy to listen to." Audience member Charles Payet
"The humor, the sadness, the challenges and the events of nearly 100 years of American history, shared through the lives of these seven people, were a joy to listen to." Audience member Charles Payet
Acting Our Age: Using Our Voices
Live performance / Booth Playhouse, Blumenthal Performing Arts
Event film 2023
The Christians by Lucas Hnath (Area premiere)
Playworks Group and Pine Hill Project at Blumenthal Performing Arts
What do you believe? And why do you believe it? Those questions drive this surprising play that's set in a megachurch in today's America. Critics and audiences nationwide have praised the play's ability to articulate many points of view. This producton was a six month project that featured an onstage choir of 23 singers from the community working with the professional cast. TalkBacks among actors, audiences and guest clergy followed all performances. The play's innovative writer, Lucas Hnath, is a Tony Award nominee for A Doll's House, Part 2.
"Can we work, pray, or even live together anymore after we've recognized that we disagree?" Broadway World
Playworks Group at Blumenthal Performing Arts
Based on the best-selling novel and N.Y. Times Notable Book by Clyde Edgerton, Lunch at the Piccadilly is an original musical about changing the world - one rocking chair at a time. With songs by Drama Desk Award winner Mike Craver, the show was developed in three productions and at the York Theatre Company in N.Y. The most recent production also hosted supporting programs about the realities of elderhood in contemporary America.
"It's about people who aren't waiting to die, but continuing to live to the very end." Up and Coming Magazine
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