She Loves You Back is a fresh and surprising collection of works exploring the role of Earth as mother – a feminine body that is exalted and exploited. What befalls a feminine body befalls the planet.  The collection of staged works includes Ashi Day’s For Whom the Dog Tolls, Shruthi Rajasekar’s The Letter, Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, and two works by Lisa Neher: excerpts from No One Saves the Earth from Us But Us and Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef.

American Patriots, created by Samantha Rose Williams and Yaniv Segal, is a new music-theater production that explores what it means to be American from four vastly different perspectives: African-American, Native American, New American, and white Working-Class American. Songs set to the text of interviews with Americans today, take an unflinching look at the day-to-day realities of American ideals. Featuring compositions by Regina Harris Baiocchi, Gala Flagello, Danielle Jagelski, and Yaniv Segal, the four composers’ unique styles create a dynamic auditory experience that is at times classical, jazzy, broadway, funny, serious, and alarming but always engaging and unexpected. American Patriots asks audiences to actively examine the way they think about identity, unconscious bias, and who this country is for; and to foster meaningful connection with people they may not have previously identified with. 

November 18th

3:00 pm She Loves You Back
7:00 pm American Patriots

American Patriots

Creative Producer & Performer / Samantha Rose Williams

Stage Director / Bill Barclay

Musical Artistic Director & Composer /  Yaniv Segal

Producers / Abby Krawson, Elliot Menard, & Cath Brittan

Composers / Regina Harris Baiocchi, Gala Flagello, & Danielle Jagelski

She Loves You Back

Soprano / Emily Way

Mezzo-Soprano / Claire Robertson-Preis

Stage Director / Joellen Sweeney

Music Director & Pianist / Jesse Preis

Producers / Claire Robertson-Preis and Jesse Preis

Composers / Lisa Neher, Shruthi Rajasekar, Ashi Day, & Robert Schumann