Fireflies is a startling world premiere by Donja R. Love, and the second part of a trilogy beginning with Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club). For his performance, Khris received a Clive Barnes Award, an Obie Award, and a Theatre World Award for Best Actor. Donja R. Love’s Fireflies, which opened at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater last night, is the second play in Love’s trilogy exploring queer love at pivotal moments in African-American history. Gross-Loh Lecturer on Theater, Dance & Media Visiting Lecturer, TDM 158A: Transformative Design (Spring 2020) Select Off-Broadway credits include Secret Life of Bees, FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, … JUSTIN ELLINGTON. DEDE AYITE. Cameron Kelsall reviews. Atlantic Theater, Linda Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street Clifton, NJ 07012, Click here for COVID-19 at the Linda Gross Theater. ARNULFO MALDONADO is a New York City-based set and costume designer. Cirque du Soleil: OVO (North American Tour,) Wintuk (Madison Square Garden). by Sarah Benson), Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature, 2017 Lortel Award, dir. 463 were here. (Photos by Ahron R. Foster) This show has now closed. Firefliesis at the Atlantic Theater Company (Linda Gross Theater), NYC, until November 11. Suzanna, co-owns and publishes the newspaper Times Square Chronicles or T2C. Atlantic Theatre at the Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street New York City, NY 10011 6:00 PM PDT 10/15/2018 by Frank Scheck FACEBOOK; TWITTER; EMAIL ME; Ahron R. Foster. October 25, 2018. The Atlantic Technique, Practical Aesthetics, provides a disciplined approach to script analysis, working truthfully moment-to-moment, and bringing these competencies together in performance of selected material. If anyone can make magic out of these trying times, it’s theater makers. Nurturing outstanding actors for 35+ years, Atlantic Acting School trains students to bring essential human stories to life. www.atlantictheater.org ... Fireflies is Donja R. Love’s second play of his trilogy dealing with queer love through black history. It’s the kind of play that stays with you after the curtain goes down, even though you may not realize it. Fireflies. Suzanna Bowling. Shadow theater FIREFLIES™ - the first representatives of the genre of shadow theatre in Ukraine LAR. 6:00 ... queer love through black history," the play is receiving its world premiere in a powerfully acted production at the Atlantic Theater Company. And so, as we eagerly await the opportunity to welcome you back through our doors, we’ve curated a few digital ways for you to join us on this ride. Television: Comedy Central; FOX Shortcoms; COPPER Project. Visit Atlantictheater.org for more information. Fireflies runs through Nov. 11 at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater in New York. A series of free hour-long acting workshops led by Atlantic Acting School Faculty. Off Broadway: MCC, MTC, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, New York Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience, Vineyard, Atlantic. 1,280 likes. Somewhere in the Jim Crow South, the sky is on fire. “Unearthing the role of gay black people in American history is a crucial proposition. 866-811-4111. Khris recently wrapped filming on the lead role in Sam De Jong’s Goldie for Vice Films. Regional: Indecent (Guthrie Theater); The Who’s Tommy (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Tiger Style (Alliance Theater; Huntington Theatre Company); Marley ( Baltimore Center Stage); Invisible Man (Court Theatre, Chicago; Studio Theatre, Washington DC; Huntington Theatre Company); ReEntry (Center Stage, Baltimore; Round House, Washington DC; Actors Theater of Louisville). Atlantic Theater Company Theater credits include: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody (Signature Theatre, dir. Atlantic Theater Company ⋄ 12th December 2018 – 26th January 2019 By Cameron Kelsall . Tour: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Under The Radar Festival, International Tour); The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM Next Wave/International tour). The Manhattan Theater Club production made it clear that Love is a talent to keep tabs on. Fireflies is running at Atlantic Theater Company through November 11. Their performances left me breathless and on the verge of tears for 90 minutes. Atlantic Theater Company, 336 West 20th Street . Click here. Regional/International: Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, People’s Light, The Wilma Theater, PlayPenn, Alliance Theater, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre of London. & Public Health Updates. The official Facebook of YOUR Columbia Fireflies! The play's moments of light wink out well before the final curtain; in Love’s universe, fireflies don’t shine for long. Wise graduated with honors as a BFA Representative from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a recipient of the Scholar Award as well as the Atlantic Achievement in Studio Award. Passage / by Chris Chen / Soho Rep / NYC 2019. KHRIS DAVIS can currently be seen on FX’s hit show “Atlanta.” Khris appeared in Lynn Nottage and Kate Whoriskey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Sweat and the independent feature Summer Night, produced by James Ponsoldt and directed by Joseph Cross. Sugar in Our Wounds / by Donja Love / MTC / NYC 2018. As directed by Saheem Ali, DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis were riveting. Recent credits include Dangerous House (Williamstown Theater Festival), Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown), Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Henry V (NYU Tisch), Twelfth Night(Public Theater), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater), Diaspora (Gym at Judson), Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane), The Booty Call (Inner Voices) and Dot (Detroit Public Theater). 'Fireflies': Theater Review. A pregnant Olivia’s fierce speech writing is the sole force behind her charismatic husband Charles and his successful Movement to galvanize people to march towards freedom. 90 minutes, no intermission. The sky is on fire -- streaked with saturated colors that suggest the universe is burning -- in Donja R. Love's new drama; it's a display matched only by the explosions in the mind of Olivia, the wife of Charles, a Baptist minister in the American South during the Civil Rights era. by Lileana Blain-Cruz), Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop (Playwright Horizons), Daaimah Mubashshir’s Everyday Afroplay (JACK), Jim Findlay’s Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen) and Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival, dir. Suzanna Bowling. Broadway: Irena’s Vow (Walter Kerr). Broadway: Children of a Lesser God. Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations. Her body contains a whole history of life before walls, before cages, before dependence. Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations. Instagram/Twitter: @codyrenard. Atlantic: Guards at the Taj (Lortel Award), Dying for It, Through A Glass Darkly (Lortel Award), Offices, Celebration and The Room and Sea Of Tranquility. It feels like going to church.”. Set in the Jim Crow South in 1963, the play tells the story of a young married couple, Charles and Olivia. www.DavidWeinerDesign.com. DeWanda Wise, best known for her role as Nola Darling in the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It,” can currently be found Off-Broadway in “Fireflies” at the Atlantic Theater Company. Shadow theater "Fireflies", Ukraine. 212-691-5919. DAVID WEINER. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Signature Theatre); Buyer & Cellar (Barrow Street; Rattlestick); Body of an American (Primary Stages); The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre, NYC; Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Lenin’s Embalmers (Ensemble Studio Theatre). By Donja R. Love. Off Broadway, Play Runs through 11.11.18 Atlantic Theater Company, 336 West 20th Street . Fireflies is the middle piece in the Love* Plays trilogy, a trio of thematically connected pieces that explore Queer Love* at pivotal moments in Black history: the era of slavery (Sugar in Our Wounds, seen at Manhattan Theater Club earlier this year, also directed by Saheem Ali), the civil rights movement (Fireflies), and Black Lives Matter (In the Middle, not yet produced). Fireflies by Donja R. Love. The parallels burn red and fierce, and lighting cuts through the sky, signaling that a storm is coming to the Fireflies that dart about Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater where Donja R. Love’s new play is getting a five-star premiere. Fireflies is more haunting than exciting. It’s 1963, a haunting era of racial segregation for African-Americans, especially in the south. Love; Directed by Saheem Ali. A Peek Inside Rehearsal for Atlantic Theater Company’s Fireflies. Sara is member of the LCT Directors Lab and a graduate of New York University. Khris made his New York stage debut in The Royale by Marco Ramirez, a star-making showcase for Khris’ incredibly physical and emotional performance. All rights reserved. Off Broadway. Theater Review: Queer and Black in America, in ‘Fireflies,’ ay Donja R. Love, at the Atlantic Theater Company The limited engagement is scheduled to run through November 11. Broadway: The Price, Stephen King’s Misery, Romeo & Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight (Lincoln Center Theater), Betrayal (Roundabout Theater Company), The Real Thing. Sugar in Our Wounds / by Donja Love / MTC / NYC 2018. Stage credits include Atlantic Theater Company's "Fireflies," by Donja R. Love, a performance universally acclaimed. Fireflies ; Blue Ridge ; Eddie and Dave ; The Mother ; Nomad Motel ; The Secret Life of Bees ... Atlantic Theater Company PO Box 4302 Clifton, NJ 07012. Regional: The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Center Theatre Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, The Alley, McCarter, Huntington, ART, Kansas City Rep, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep. David also designs architectural lighting (COTE Restaurant – Michelin Star, GQ Top 10 in America) and music festivals (Bonnaroo, Outside Lands). Princess Grace Award winner for 2017 and 2018. Other television credits include “Shots Fired,” “Underground,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “The Good Wife,” among others. Atlantic Theater Company stages the world premiere production of Fireflies, written by Donja R. Love and directed by Saheem Ali. Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Center Theatre Group, Guthrie Theater, Humana Festival, KC Rep, Old Globe, Two River Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival. Theater Review: Queer and Black in America, in ‘Fireflies,’ ay Donja R. Love, at the Atlantic Theater Company Little more than a calendar quarter later, the Atlantic Theater Company is presenting Fireflies… Fireflies. www.atlantictheater.org Click here for all of the details! All rights reserved. Mr. Maldonado is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist, a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, and a multiple-Henry Hewes Design nominee. Diaspora / by Nathaniel Shapiro / The Gym at Judson / NYC 2017. Soraya Nadia McDonald is the culture critic for The Undefeated. E-mail: theater@shadowfireflies.org Skype: shadow.theater Imagine Your shadow world!!! Atlantic kicks off the season with the world premiere of Donja R. Love's Fireflies, directed by Saheem Ali, which will begin previews at the Linda Gross Theater on September 26, 2018, before an official opening on October 15 and a limited engagement through to November 11, 2018. I was moved by Mr. Love’s willingness to imagine other kinds of lives than the ones that history books offer. Dangerous House / by Jen Silverman / Williamstown / MA 2018. Fireflies / by Donja Love / Atlantic Theater / NYC 2018. He has had productions at Manhattan Theatre Club (Sugar in Our Wounds) and Atlantic Theater Company (Fireflies). Strains mightily for importance. by Angel Lam on 10.18.18. Firefliesis at the Atlantic Theater Company (Linda Gross Theater), NYC, until November 11. Somewhere in the Jim Crow South, the sky is on fire. MFA: NYU Tisch. PO Box 4302 In film, Wise can be seen next in The Weekend, opposite Sasheer Zamata and Tone Bell, which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. 90 minutes, no intermission. Donja R. Love’s Fireflies, which opened at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater last night, is the second play in Love’s trilogy exploring queer love at pivotal moments in African-American history. Additional film credits include How to Tell You’re a Douchbag, in which Wise starred in and executive produced, Spinning into Butter, and Precious, among others. He’s the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellow, a Eugene O’ Neill 2018/2017 National Playwrights Conference finalist, The Lark’s 2016 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellow, The Playwrights Realm’s 2016-2017 Writing Fellow, the 2016 Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Award recipient, and the 2011 Philadelphia Adult Grand Slam Poetry Champion. BFA in Stage Management from Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts. 'Fireflies': Theater Review. Raja is a choreographer for theater, dance and performance works. “Fireflies” at Atlantic Theater Company “American Son” on Broadway at the Booth Theater “Waitress” on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre; Professional Development Workshops. Awards: Recipient of Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; two Drama Desk Nominations. Both productions will take place in Atlantic Theater Company’s main stage, the Linda Gross Theater at 336 W. 20th St., NYC. "Fireflies" is the second part of Donja R. Love's trilogy that began with "Sugar in Our Wounds. You are now registered. Atlantic for Kids: She Persisted, The Musical, Atlantic for Kids: Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, Atlantic for Kids: Last Stop on Market Street, Atlantic for Kids: Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical, Atlantic for Kids: This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, Atlantic for Kids: 1001 Nights: A Love Story about Loving Stories, Atlantic for Kids: Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure, Atlantic for Kids: Ivy + Bean: The Musical, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Atlantic for Kids: Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money, Atlantic for Kids: The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales. By Donja J. Plays include soft, one in two (The New Group), Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company), Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Nominations), and The Trade. The Manhattan Theater Club production made it clear that Love is a talent to keep tabs on. Fireflies, which begins performances September 26 at Atlantic Theater Company, is set in the Jim Crow South, in the wake of the Birmingham church bombing that killed four little girls. Somewhere in the Jim Crow South, the sky is on fire. Select Off-Broadway: Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); JHAT (Signature); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Tell Hector I Miss Him, Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). by Angel Lam on 10.18.18 . 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