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The House of Bernarda Alba is a provocative drama set in a small, Spanish village, which follows the legacy of Bernarda Alba, the matriarch, and her five daughters. Living under Bernarda’s control as they mourn their father’s passing, these sisters seek a world beyond their mother’s walls. Enticing audiences for 80 years, The House of Bernarda Alba is a gripping and timeless exploration of control, desire, and the power of the human spirit. Features students from JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Contains adult content, adult language, violence, and references to suicide. Parental discretion advised.

The House of Bernarda Alba is a provocative drama set in a small, Spanish village, which follows the legacy of Bernarda Alba, the matriarch, and her five daughters. Living under Bernarda’s control as they mourn their father’s passing, these sisters seek a world beyond their mother’s walls. Enticing audiences for 80 years, The House of Bernarda Alba is a gripping and timeless exploration of control, desire, and the power of the human spirit. Features students from JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Contains adult content, adult language, violence, and references to suicide. Parental discretion advised.

The House of Bernarda Alba is a provocative drama set in a small, Spanish village, which follows the legacy of Bernarda Alba, the matriarch, and her five daughters. Living under Bernarda’s control as they mourn their father’s passing, these sisters seek a world beyond their mother’s walls. Enticing audiences for 80 years, The House of Bernarda Alba is a gripping and timeless exploration of control, desire, and the power of the human spirit. Features students from JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Contains adult content, adult language, violence, and references to suicide. Parental discretion advised.

The House of Bernarda Alba is a provocative drama set in a small, Spanish village, which follows the legacy of Bernarda Alba, the matriarch, and her five daughters. Living under Bernarda’s control as they mourn their father’s passing, these sisters seek a world beyond their mother’s walls. Enticing audiences for 80 years, The House of Bernarda Alba is a gripping and timeless exploration of control, desire, and the power of the human spirit. Features students from JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Contains adult content, adult language, violence, and references to suicide. Parental discretion advised.

This new work was a finalist in the inaugural season of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Madison New Works Lab, an incubator for developing new plays with professional playwrights from across the country. Seven years after workshopping Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, JMU welcomes its world premiere. Set in a small California town, the story follows sister Maria and Dirt and their friends as they navigate adolescence and dream of something more - unaware that Maria’s mysterious online connection, Hank Lord, is a demon. Briandaniel will serve as a professional playwright-in-residence, working with the cast and students on this exciting project. https://briandanieloglesby.com/ Madison New Works Lab is made possible by the generosity of Paul Holland and Linda Yates. Contains adult content and adult language. Parental discretion advised.

This new work was a finalist in the inaugural season of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Madison New Works Lab, an incubator for developing new plays with professional playwrights from across the country. Seven years after workshopping Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, JMU welcomes its world premiere. Set in a small California town, the story follows sister Maria and Dirt and their friends as they navigate adolescence and dream of something more - unaware that Maria’s mysterious online connection, Hank Lord, is a demon. Briandaniel will serve as a professional playwright-in-residence, working with the cast and students on this exciting project. https://briandanieloglesby.com/ Madison New Works Lab is made possible by the generosity of Paul Holland and Linda Yates. Contains adult content and adult language. Parental discretion advised.

This new work was a finalist in the inaugural season of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Madison New Works Lab, an incubator for developing new plays with professional playwrights from across the country. Seven years after workshopping Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, JMU welcomes its world premiere. Set in a small California town, the story follows sister Maria and Dirt and their friends as they navigate adolescence and dream of something more - unaware that Maria’s mysterious online connection, Hank Lord, is a demon. Briandaniel will serve as a professional playwright-in-residence, working with the cast and students on this exciting project. https://briandanieloglesby.com/ Madison New Works Lab is made possible by the generosity of Paul Holland and Linda Yates. Contains adult content and adult language. Parental discretion advised.

This new work was a finalist in the inaugural season of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Madison New Works Lab, an incubator for developing new plays with professional playwrights from across the country. Seven years after workshopping Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, JMU welcomes its world premiere. Set in a small California town, the story follows sister Maria and Dirt and their friends as they navigate adolescence and dream of something more - unaware that Maria’s mysterious online connection, Hank Lord, is a demon. Briandaniel will serve as a professional playwright-in-residence, working with the cast and students on this exciting project. https://briandanieloglesby.com/ Madison New Works Lab is made possible by the generosity of Paul Holland and Linda Yates. Contains adult content and adult language. Parental discretion advised.

This new work was a finalist in the inaugural season of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Madison New Works Lab, an incubator for developing new plays with professional playwrights from across the country. Seven years after workshopping Basement Demons and Trailer Saints, JMU welcomes its world premiere. Set in a small California town, the story follows sister Maria and Dirt and their friends as they navigate adolescence and dream of something more - unaware that Maria’s mysterious online connection, Hank Lord, is a demon. Briandaniel will serve as a professional playwright-in-residence, working with the cast and students on this exciting project. https://briandanieloglesby.com/ Madison New Works Lab is made possible by the generosity of Paul Holland and Linda Yates. Contains adult content and adult language. Parental discretion advised.

The opera Zorro! by composer Hector Armienta -- first showing on the East Coast!

Come for a story of love and heroic swordfighting, as the Californios struggle against the oppresive Old World Spanish monarchy! This new opera (premiered 2022) has been described as Puccini meets Mexico. Sung in English and Spanish, with English supertitles.. The opera had been shown with great success at Santa Barbara, San Jose, Arizona, and elsewhere in the Western USA; we are proud to be the first to bring it to the East Coast.

The work is set in the early 1800's, when there was great political upheaval in Spain and México. Inspired by true events in history and based on the pulp fiction character Zorro, a young man returns from Spain to the place of his birth - el pueblo de Los Ángeles. It is there, he will find his destiny and be reunited with a young mestiza he was once forbidden to love.

Tickets are available now, with reserved seating.$75, discount $70 (seniors, first responders, military, teachers, college faculty and staff, musicians, librarians), students $15, Tuesday students $10

Live fully-staged opera with world-class cast.See casting details at www.operainwilliamsburg.org
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