One Drop of Love
written, produced and performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni
presented by The City of Cambridge Citizens’ Committee on Civic Unity with the YWCA Cambridge,and the Central Square Theater

Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Matinee (for students and others), 1pm RSVP Online
Evening performance, 7pm RSVP Online

Free and Open to the Public – RSVP’s recommended. Maximum two tickets per reservation.

A one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, and gender in search of truth, justice and love. The show incorporates filmed images, photographs, and animation to tell the story of how the notion of ‘race’ came to be in the United States and how it affects our most intimate relationships. OneDropofLove.org

For more information please contact Taha Jennings at 617.349.4302 or by email at tjennings@cambridgema.gov

The Citizens’ Committee on Civic Unity’s mission is to foster fairness, equity, unity, appreciation, and mutual understanding across all people and entities in Cambridge. For more information visit CambridgeMA.gov/CivicUnity

Titanic Theatre Company presents the New England premiere of Penny Penniworth: A Story of Great Good Fortune by Chris Weikel. A labyrinthine romp through Victorian literature, Penny is Charles Dickens’ “lost” epic as mounted by a short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company aspirations. It is a gender-bending tale of true love thwarted, deception, abduction, and true love regained.

Penny Penniworth: A Story of Great Good Fortune
by Chris Weikel
June 8 – 25, 2017
Central Square Theater Studio
Tickets: $25 (with fees)

For one hour you are going to sit in total darkness, surrounded by speakers, and experience the world through your ears.

Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett are co-creators of The World According to Sound, a radio show that airs on NPR’s All Things Considered and weekly on individual public radio stations. The Washington Post writes that “each episode is 90 seconds, containing a neat little story about an evocative, unusual sound rendered in intense aural detail.” The show’s sound-driven approach to radio has been featured on programs like NHPR’s Overheard, KQED’s Earful, KALW’s The Spot, CBC’s Podcast Playlist, and a segment on HowSound called “Short is Beautiful.”

For the live performance, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett set up a ring of speakers, pass out eye masks, turn out the lights, and take the sounds from their show and move them all around the audience. You will hear bridges and ants and the gurgle of mud pots. The sounds will transport you inside another person’s head and back in time a hundred years to the streets of Berlin. There will be a musical performance by a washing machine, a sonorous tennis match, and a disturbing howl Marco Polo heard centuries ago while crossing the Gobi Desert. All these sounds will swirl around you while you sit in total darkness with only your ears to guide you.

The World According to Sound
Tuesday, April 11 at 7pm
Advance Tickets: $15 (plus fees)
Walkup (Day of Show): $20

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…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley is the seventh play in The God’s Closet Reading Series presented by The Front Porch Arts Collective, in residence at Central Square Theater. The reading will take place on Monday, February 12, 2018 at 7pm and tickets are free.

And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a poetic retelling of the Demeter myth set during the Civil War and narrated by the Mississippi River.

Having run away from a plantation in Arkansas, a father travels South in search of his daughter Po’em. En route, he is murdered and resurrected into the goddess Demeter by way of devine intervention. Now having the power to upset the balance of nature, Demeter continues her journey to find Po’em despite the fact that the world will flood in three days if she doesn’t set Mother Nature right. The goddess arrives on a plantation in the rich fertile landscape of Louisiana (a modern day Elysian field), where her daughter was a slave. Although Po’em is not there and eventually discovered to be in limbo, what Demeter unearths changes her course entirely.

In this epic bricolage, myth, spirituality, Gods and mortals are all woven together to examine the complex and profound fabric that is the American quilt.

To directors and actors who wish to be considered for one of the readings, please email us at thefrontporcharts@gmail.com. Thank you for your interest!

The God’s Closet Reading Series is funded, in part, by The Boston Foundation as part of the Live Arts Boston initiative.

A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes by Marcus Gardley is the sixth play in The God’s Closet Reading Series presented by The Front Porch Arts Collective, in residence at Central Square Theater. The reading will take place on Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7pm and tickets are free. We now have a wait list for the reading. Please join it and we will move people over as space opens up.

This fresh take on Molière’s Tartuffe, set in a world of fast-food tycoons and megachurches is a wicked new comedy that rocks the foundations of trust, faith and redemption.

Given just days to live, multi-millionaire Archibald Organdy rejects costly experimental treatment and opts to face his end surrounded by his loving family. However, things could be about to change.

Arriving in Atlanta the flamboyant Archbishop Tardimus Toof, a prophet, preacher and part-time masseur promises to absolve Archibald’s sins and heal his disease. But his family suspects there’s more to this healer than faith, virtue and snakeskin shoes.

To directors and actors who wish to be considered for one of the readings, please email us at thefrontporcharts@gmail.com. Thank you for your interest!

The God’s Closet Reading Series is funded, in part, by The Boston Foundation as part of the Live Arts Boston initiative.