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Allentown, Pa. (Sept. 15, 2021) \u2014 A bilingual staged reading and a world premiere reimagining of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d will open a new in-person season of theater and dance performance at Muhlenberg College this fall. Actors and dancers will again perform live on stage, following a mostly-virtual season in the spring of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n The season marks the beginning of a transition to a more thoughtful and inclusive show selection process, under the direction of Rebecca Lustig, the department\u2019s new director of the co-curricular\/production program.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis will be a transitional season in more ways than one,\u201d Lustig says. \u201cThere is a strong recognition of the vital importance of creating performance as a community in the upcoming year, even as work is undertaken to discover a new normal \u2014 covid-aware as well as collaborative and inclusive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Faculty member Leticia Robles-Moreno, who directs the season\u2019s opening production\u00a0 \u2014 a bilingual staged reading of Caridad Svich\u2019s play \u201cEn el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies)\u201d \u2014 says she knew right away that she wanted to direct a piece centered around the voices of Latina women. She says she hopes this decision will empower the actors, as well as the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo me, the season brings me hope about what kind of department we can become,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can be revolutionary, you can perform resistance with big and small gestures.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEn el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies),\u201d Sept. 30 \u2013 Oct 3, 2021, a staged reading directed by Robles-Moreno, written by Caridad Svich, opens the season with a powerful story of Latina feminist empowerment. Based on the true story of the Mirabal Sisters, the play unveils the women behind the myth. All performances will include Spanish subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCall Me By Any Other Name\u2026 Just As Sweet,\u201d Oct. 21-24, 2021, adapted and directed by Nigel Semaj with new text by Jack Saleeby and Brayden Stallman, is a world premiere queer deconstruction of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d This explorative new adaptation steps outside of how we typically viewed and experienced the story of \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d By using inspirations from Dante Alighieri’s \u201cDivine Comedy,\u201d \u201cCall Me By Any Other Name\u2026 Just As Sweet\u201d examines the role of fate and who gets to love, while reimagining the narrative and staking a claim for Queer storytelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cReset: New Dances,\u201d Nov. 18-20, 2021, features eight exciting new choreographic works by Muhlenberg dancers, on the theme of renewal and reinvention. Megan Flynn serves as artistic director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Saint Plays,\u201d Dec. 1-5, 2021 \u2014 Inspired by the lives of Biblical characters and Catholic saints, Ehn\u2019s richly allusive, ecstatic, hallucinogenic performance poems cleave to hope and beauty in the aftermath of loss. The production will be directed by Muhlenberg seniors Savannah Hastings, Ashley Hilary, Katie Keller, and Maddi Whiting, alongside artistic director and faculty mentor James Peck.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAssembly,\u201d a performance festival running from January through May 2022, will feature five works of theatre, dance, and music, presented throughout the spring semester, on the theme of coming together. A festival announcement to arrive later within the year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMiss You Like Hell,\u201d Feb. 17-20, 2022 is an intense and rambunctious new musical that celebrates the bond between mothers and daughters. Created by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes (\u201cIn the Heights\u201d) and acclaimed singer\/songwriter Erin McKeown, and directed by visiting assistant professor Jamie McKittrick, \u201cMiss You Like Hell\u201d brings us along on a desperate, joyous, uniquely American road trip.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn Motion,\u201d March 31 \u2013 April 2, 2022, highlights dynamic dance works by faculty and guest artists. Heidi Cruz-Austin and Karen Dearborn will serve as artistic directors.<\/span><\/p>\n Tickets for the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Season<\/b> are available starting Sept. 20. Regular admission tickets for most shows are $15, while campus tickets are $8. All tickets for the staged reading of \u201cEn El Tiempo De Las Mariposas\u201d are $5. Tickets for the musical \u201cMiss You Like Hell\u201d are $20 for the general public, $8 for Muhlenberg and LVAIC students, faculty, and staff.<\/span><\/p>\n Tickets can be purchased online at muhlenberg.edu\/seeashow<\/a> or by phone at 484-664-3333. Box office hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m. and two hours before curtain. Masks are required for all patrons.<\/span><\/p>\n Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is a highly selective, private, four-year residential college located in Allentown, PA., approximately 90 miles west of New York City. With an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 2,200 students, Muhlenberg College is dedicated to shaping creative, compassionate, collaborative leaders through rigorous academic programs in the arts, sciences, business, education and public health. A member of the Centennial Conference, Muhlenberg competes in 22 varsity sports. Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<\/span><\/p>\n Muhlenberg offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in theater and dance. The Princeton Review ranked Muhlenberg\u2019s theater program in the top twelve in the nation for eight years in a row, and Fiske Guide to Colleges lists both the theater and dance programs among the top small college programs in the United States. Muhlenberg is one of only eight colleges to be listed in Fiske for both theater and dance.<\/span><\/p>\n Information Provided By: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Department’s return to the (non-virtual) stage features a world premiere Shakespeare adaptation, new themed dance concerts, spring performance festival Allentown, Pa. (Sept. 15, 2021) \u2014 A bilingual staged reading … Continue reading Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance announces in-person performance season<\/span>
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