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Though relatively unknown today, during the Harlem renaissance and into the 1930s and ’40s, many Black women singers and dancers were known to be “showstoppers.” Cora LaRedd, who performed for a white-only audience at the Cotton Club in Harlem, was one.

The director and movement director/choreographer Romeo and Juliet speak about their collaboration.

“It is principally by means of the incandescent brilliance of its language that Romeo and Juliet has earned its place as one of the greatest love stories in world literature,” writes Stephen Greenblatt.

Want to learn more about the history and legacy of The Great Gatsby? This list features some of the publications and media that have inspired the creative team in their work on this production.

When it comes to adaptation, I have to have a burning need to tell the story myself, it has to strike something personal in me…and it has to shed light on this moment in time.

Read a poem featured in the September 7 event, written by Creative Advisor & Performer Sarah Hunaidi.

The Half-God of Rainfall marks director Taibi Magar’s fourth A.R.T. production in five years. Each told by an ensemble, her recent A.R.T. works all center questions of justice—a theme that she connects directly to the ancient foundations of storytelling and performance.

In anticipation of Amal’s arrival in Boston, we look back at other puppet artists’ work in A.R.T. history, from 1984’s The King Stag to last season’s Life of Pi.

This glossary offers additional information about the Greek and Yoruba deities at the heart of the story, as well as context for some of the other legends—both on and off the court—referenced in the play.

I woke up the next morning and a character was forming: a super-human baller who could do the things I never could. I started writing the story then, but truthfully I’d been prepping it my whole life; he could be the half-god I never was.

A compilation of resources to introduce you to Evita and to prepare and reflect on the production.