Written and performed by Nelson Lugo and directed by Joel Jeske, “Cheating Death: Magic, Memoirs & Mortality” is a dark comedy that explores one magician’s life and his many brushes with death. Cheating Death is a hybrid theater piece that challenges the boundaries between personal storytelling and classical stage magic. The result is an intimate (more…)

IN THE PENAL COLONY, adapted from Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name, investigates the performance of power, patriarchy and punishment. Three black men convene on an unnamed penal colony and challenge the presumptions of the worth of a human body, asking what does it mean for black male bodies to exist: in the (more…)

IN THE PENAL COLONY, adapted from Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name, investigates the performance of power, patriarchy and punishment. Three black men convene on an unnamed penal colony and challenge the presumptions of the worth of a human body, asking what does it mean for black male bodies to exist: in the (more…)

IN THE PENAL COLONY, adapted from Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name, investigates the performance of power, patriarchy and punishment. Three black men convene on an unnamed penal colony and challenge the presumptions of the worth of a human body, asking what does it mean for black male bodies to exist: in the (more…)

IN THE PENAL COLONY, adapted from Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name, investigates the performance of power, patriarchy and punishment. Three black men convene on an unnamed penal colony and challenge the presumptions of the worth of a human body, asking what does it mean for black male bodies to exist: in the (more…)