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Machiavelli's The Mandrake

University Theatre and director T. Anthony Marotta present a new twist on an old tale of desire and deception: The play revolves around characters pursuing their desires by any means necessary: Callimaco (played by Drew Atkinson) years for the beautiful Lucrezia (played by Kileigh Adams), a virtuous young woman married to foolish old Calfucci (played by Hannah Klevesahl). Calfucci is desperate for an heir while Lucrezia’s mother, Sostrata (…

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Fires in the Mirror

Racial tensions boil over in the University Theatre production about the 1991 race riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn: It's about what happened in a neighborhood with two groups living strictly separate lives: Orthodox Hasidic Jews and African and Caribbean Americans. It was a tense coexistence until a rabbi’s motorcade ran over a couple of black children, killing one. A few hours later, a visiting Jewish scholar was stabbed to death in revenge…

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University Theatre: The Bakkhai

University Theatre is in session throughout this weekend with a contemporary take on the ancient Greek classic tragedy "The Bakkhai" by Euripides, translated by Robert Bagg: Performances will be in the Cellar Theatre March 25-30 at 8 p.m. with a 2:30 p.m. matinee March 30. Tickets are $12, or $7 for students, and can be purchased at www.drama.uga.edu/box-office, by phone at 706-542-4400, in-person at the Performing Arts Center or Tate Center box…


81st University Theatre season begins with 'Doubt'

University Theatre kicks off its 81st season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Doubt: A Parable' on Sept. 19: "Doubt" is set in 1964. In a parallel with the present moment, new Pope Paul VI is shaking up the Catholic church by pushing a series of reforms, reaching out to other faiths to make the church more inclusive and vowing to "clean house" in the Vatican. At St. Nicolas Catholic Church and School in the Bronx borough of New York City,…


University Theatre presents Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'

 
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