Citizen Arts

SMOKE BREAK. Citizen Arts launches The Nest, its new young artists program, with a reading of Smoke Break, a play by Kristofer Wilson. Directed by Ares Harper and featuring a cast of talented young, New York based performers, the play explores how freedom and redemption dance together in a small town restaurant on the brink of closing.

*Pre-show reception with live music by Alfredo Colon and Steve Williams. Music begins at 7 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

SALOME PROJECT is a theatrical performance piece born out of Meg Araneo’s scholarly research into late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cultural infatuations with the archetype of the biblical dancing girl. A devised work, the Salome Project considers the figure of the dancing girl as a cultural location where social and political ideas of a specific historical context can be actively explored through text, music, and dance. 

INTERRUPTION! is a cross-genre performance project that meditates on some of the key issues facing the United States today, including voting rights, economic inequality, and racial injustice. Co-created by Rob Reddy, Oliver Lake, and Meg Araneo, INTERRUPTION! was inspired by a July 2015 sermon by the esteemed Rev. William Barber II, President of the NC NAACP and co-organizer of the North Carolina Moral Mondays Mvt. INTERRUPTION! directly engages Barber's powerful ideas through its dramaturgical integration of Rob Reddy's original compositions with libretto by Oliver Lake.

Ubu Roi : An Inauguration Eve Radio Play Performance was presented on January 19, 2017 at The Cell Theatre in New York, NY. The project was a collective response to the ideologies and tactics of the incoming administration. This production of Ubu Roi addressed the volatile contemporary discourse of hatred, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and sexual violence. The performance was followed by a discussion about the current political climate and what can be done to ensure the core values of our democracy remain in tact