Theatre for Thu., March 27

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MotherTree

Looking to branch out in your live performance viewing? Leaf it to the Vortex Theatre – purveyors of “urgent, unashamed art to create action in a shifting age” – to provide a production unlike any other. Planted by producing Artistic Director Bonnie Cullum with music direction by Anderson Dear, stagecraft meets climate science in this exploration of the human connection to trees. In keeping with the theatre’s goal to promote active praxis through performance, themes of beauty, magic, and grief are woven together by ensemble members Gabriel Maldonado, Caili Crow, Nicole Boyd, Alaithia Velez, Benjamin Cervantes, Blaise Ricin, Sigh, Pablo Munoz-Evers, Katrina Saporsantos, Tyaga Welch, Laura D’Eramo, and Logan Lasiter. It’s not going out on a limb to say the current climate crisis affects us all, so join the Vortex as “we travel through the mycorrhizal network to learn from the Trees.” – James Scott

Through April 20

The Vortex
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Self Portraits 5

First debuted in 2014, Bottle Alley Theatre’s Self Portraits series has bounced around unconventional venues, including warehouses and the digital hellscape we all dwelled in during the pandemic. For its fifth iteration, Self Portraits lands at Dougherty Arts Center’s mainstage, but the company is still promising “barely controlled chaos.” That means 30 new pieces, directed by Cody Arn, written and performed by Madi Luebbers, Emily Green, Meg Hobgood, Hashir Wallace, Mon Darter, Ciara Cook, Aurora Villarreal, Lligany Otaduy, and Iliana Griffth-Suarez – and delivered in an order determined by the audience. Is it art, or is it anarchy? Who says you can’t have both? – Kimberley Jones

March 27-29

Dougherty Arts Center

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Hamilton

I love a good at-home viewing party as much as the next person; screens and sweatpants are a match made in heaven. But Disney’s pro-shot live-stage recording of the multiple Tony award-winning Hamilton doesn’t come close to the real thing. True spectacle needs space – especially when that spectacle rocked the musical world and ushered in a new era of what can make a Broadway show. Experience Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rapping revolutionaries “in the room where it happens.” Here’s hoping you escape without King George’s songs on loop for the rest of your life (if so, you’ve got me beat). – Cat McCarrey

Through April 6

Bass Concert Hall

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