The Tapioca Miracle Reading at MetroStage

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tapiocametroGone are the days when a producer calls a young Jerry Herman into his office and says ” Kid – Hello Dolly! is yours. Go write it.”  Today, getting a new musical written, financed and produced is daunting. Usually DC audiences get their first look at a show in development at a workshop or premiere.   Thanks to Tapioca’s creative team, we can take you behind the scenes into private reads, investor invites, and, if the collaborators get it right – onto that miracle of miracle – the next Hello, Dolly!. [Read more...]

Stoop Stories

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Dael Orlandersmith’s Stoop Stories are a series of monologues that become hypnotic poetry about people she’s watched in New York who pursue the American Dream. Because they are outsiders, losers and dopers, the unseen ones, they sit on their front porch steps to talk, to drink and dream. They never go anywhere, but they travel and take you with them – far beyond Harlem, the East or West Villages, Brooklyn or the Bronx. [Read more...]