Jan 31 Saturday
Noli Timere is a soaring aerial performance featuring eight extraordinary, multidisciplinary performers moving over and within a custom designed net sculpture, suspended up to 25 feet in the air. Conceived by Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Rebecca Lazier in partnership with world renowned sculptor Janet Echelman, Noli Timere presents a seamless, symbiotic interaction between movement and sculpture in which both are continually reshaped and transformed by one another. Created with original music by acclaimed Quebecoise composer Jorane, Noli Timere fuses contemporary dance and avant-garde circus with art installation and advanced engineering, to question how one navigates an unstable world.
The culmination of a 5-year collaboration, Noli Timere, Latin for ‘be not afraid’, uniquely renders interconnectedness visible and tangible–demonstrating, like the Butterfly Effect, how a change in one element generates cascading reverberations throughout a whole system. Noli Timere offers a mesmerizing kinesthetic metaphor and meditation upon the challenges of global interconnection.
Feb 01 Sunday
Feb 06 Friday
Cape Rep’s Young Company presents A Monster CallsThe Young Company at Cape Rep Theatre (YoCo) and program director Maura Hanlon are excited to present A Monster Calls based on the novel by Patrick Ness and inspired by an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, devised by Sally Cookson, Adam Peck and the Company; Friday, February 6 at 7 pm, and Saturday, February 7 at 2 pm and 7 pm. Tickets are $10, $5 for students under 18, and go to supporting Cape Rep’s Young Company Initiative. Call the Box Office for details. Cape Rep Indoor Theater. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster. 508.896.1888 or www.caperep.org.
Now entering its 10th year, Cape Rep’s Young Company (YoCo) provides free professional theater training to young actors grades 8 through 12 eager to learn the craft of acting through an intensive rehearsal and production process. All interested students are welcomed into this free annual program.
A Monster Calls tells a striking story of love, loss, and courage through Conor, a boy plagued by recurring nightmares. One night, his slumber is disrupted by the arrival at his window of an elemental being as old as the hills—a formidable force of nature that demands something terrifyingly fundamental and profound from him.
The Young Company features a talented group of students from across the Cape supported by Cape Rep Company artists including director Maura Hanlon, associate director Ian Hamilton, Holly Erin McCarthy (costume design), Susan Nicholson (lighting design), Alison Weller (voice and speech coach), Macklin Devine (stage management and movement coach), Art Devine (stage combat), and Janine Perry (Producing Artistic Director).
Come join for this lively and fun filled production of Pride and Prejudice at the Exit 7 Theater! Jane Austen’s beloved classic novel is brought to fresh, fun new life in Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. There is little hope for the four Bennet sisters beyond “ensnaring” a wealthy future husband, but Lizzy dreams of more than the schemes and games of courtship. A young woman with a bright mind and free spirit, she is determined to avoid the trappings of a loveless marriage while laughing at the foolish antics of others. When she meets the solemn Mr. Darcy, she immediately judges him to be all that she detests: proud, arrogant, rude and so without civility that she can hardly endure his presence. Lizzy comes to discover, however, that first impressions may not be all that they seem. Is there any way to grow past one’s prejudices? Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice is a delightful, zany, energetic take on the classic tale full of laughter, madcap characters, and heartfelt fun
Buy your tickets here: https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/exit-7-players/68a65b5f3106501004e55dbd
Performance Dates: Friday, February 6 @ 8pmSaturday, February 7 @ 8pmSunday, February 8 @ 2pmFriday, February 13 @ 8pmSaturday, February 14 @ 8pmSunday, February 15 @ 2pmFriday, February 20 @ 8pmSaturday, February 21 @ 8pmSunday, February 22 @ 2pm
Feb 07 Saturday
For nearly two decades, the Winter Sunshine Series has been a warm beacon during Vermont’s coldest months—bringing laughter, imagination, and shared experiences to audiences of all ages. Sandglass Theater invites families, friends, and neighbors to gather once again this February and celebrate the joy of puppetry together. Brad Shur's Cardboard Explosion! invites audience participation and boundless imagination! Experience stories no one has ever seen before as Brad Shur transforms simple cardboard shapes into elaborate puppet characters, then brings them to life right before your eyes.Performances at 11am and 2pm!
Feb 14 Saturday
For nearly two decades, the Winter Sunshine Series has been a warm beacon during Vermont’s coldest months—bringing laughter, imagination, and shared experiences to audiences of all ages. Sandglass Theater invites families, friends, and neighbors to gather once again this February and celebrate the joy of puppetry together. Performed in a one-of-a-kind suit-stage, this show packs classic hand puppetry, Dadaist ventriloquism, and stand-up comedy into a cardboard box and delivers it, with impeccable timing, live on stage.Inside the box are the Baffos — two slapstick chaps who keep the sun, moon and everything else running on schedule. From the moment the lid opens, audiences are captivated as the Baffos juggle and dance their way through the day’s chores, despite the undeniable evidence that their world is changing. A daring work of puppetry and object manipulation, full of beautiful images, junk music sonatas, and Modern Times Theater’s unique brand of all ages comedy. This re-envisioning of classic hand puppet forms is digital entertainment as it was meant to be: two hands, ten fingers, and no camera tricks.
Feb 20 Friday
Composed, Written, and Performed by Ahamefule J. Oluo
The Things Around Us is a dazzling, funny, and introspective new work from acclaimed musician, artist, and storyteller Ahamefule J. Oluo. In this one-person-show, Oluo builds layers of live, looped music and then tells us revealing, personal stories to create an introspective evening about strangers, acquaintances, and friends—and how all three might be more similar to each other than we often think. It is the third in a trilogy of shows from Oluo, following Now I’m Fine and Susan.
Using looping technology, trumpet, vocals, cardboard shipping boxes for drums, and other instruments, Oluo creates an expansive symphony that becomes the perfect soundtrack to Oluo’s personal reflections, laugh out loud stories, and universal observations about life. The Things Around Us is an evening that will draw you in and remind you of the beauty that surrounds all of the people and places we hold dear.
Feb 21 Saturday
Party Animals follows five furry friends as they navigate the biggest social hurdle of their young lives — throwing their first party! Meet a bunny with boundless energy, a sloth with social anxiety, a hedgehog wrestling with wrapping, and a skunk who's trying to keep everything cool and under control. Through song, dance, and original rock 'n' roll music by Boston local Phil Berman, these little stars discover that music can be an exuberant and healthy way to express yourself. Party Animals balances silly antics with deeper truths, all conveyed through traditional hand puppetry performance. Legendary rock star Pete Townshend once said, "Rock 'n' roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them" — a truth for the ages, and for all ages.For nearly two decades, the Winter Sunshine Series has been a warm beacon during Vermont’s coldest months—bringing laughter, imagination, and shared experiences to audiences of all ages. Sandglass Theater invites families, friends, and neighbors to gather once again this February and celebrate the joy of puppetry together.