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CITY WEEKLY PICK | Scott Renshaw | February 15, 2012

"...the interaction between Rothko and his young assistant/pupil also explores fascinating notions about art that build like layers on a canvas. They wrestle with the relationship between the work and the viewer; with the tension between pure art and commerce; with the inevitable antagonism between innovation and the establishment; with art as a battle with mortality; with entertainment versus discernment. Through two powerful performances, director Keven Myhre crafts a production that stares long and hard at the act of creating, in a way that creates its own uniquely vital pulse." [Read article]

 

Course 86B in the Catalogue

A World Premiere by Kathleen Cahill
April 11-May 6, 2012
Director Tracy Callahan
With Colleen Baum, Daniel Beecher, Elise Groves, Topher Rasmussen

A comedic riff on evolution and time set at a small community college in an arid state where extraordinary artifacts from the ancient past abound - some of them still living.