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"Red Barn" by David Melville and Melissa Chalsma, an Independent Shakespeare Company workshop at Independent Studio in the Atwater Crossing Arts + Innovation Complex in Los Angeles through Mar. 29. Pictured: Julia Aks.
Color, perception, semantics and meaning are among the animating themes of this week’s stage offerings.
By American Theatre Editors
Paul Loper, Madeline H.D. Brown, Wiley Naman Strasser and Jason W. Wong. in “Antigone” by Sophocles, in a new translation by Daniel Sullivan, at Cutting Ball Theatre in San Francisco in 2015. (Photo by Chase Ramsey)
“Blue” by Annie Cusick Wood, at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Md., in 2015. Pictured: Jack Novak and Phillip Reid. (Photo by Lauren Alexander)
“The Cat in the Hat,” adapted by Katie Mitchell from Dr. Seuss, at Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Ark.
“The Colored Museum” by George C. Wolfe, at Huntington Theatre Company in Boston through Apr. 5. Pictured: Shayna Small, Nathan Lee Graham and Capathia Jenkins. (Photo by T Charles Erickson)
“Death Tax” by Lucas Hnath, at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis through Apr. 4. Pictured: Regina Marie Williams and Wendy Lehr. (Photo by Keri Pickett)
“Fabulas Mayas” by Cecilia Cackley, adapted by Karin Tovar, at the Gala HIspanic Theatre in Washington, D.C., through Mar. 21. PIctured: Jose Pineda and Carol Spring. (Photo by Lonnie Tague)
“Freud’s Last Session” by Mark St. Germain, at Lake Dillon Theatre Company in Dillon, Colo., through Mar. 22. Pictured: Bob Moore.
“Girls Who Wear Glasses” by Anne Negri, at Childsplay in Tempe, Ariz. through Mar. 29. Pictured: Kate Haas and Kaleena Newman. (Photo by Tim Trumble)
“Gutenberg! The Musical!” by Scott Brown and Anthony King, at American Stage Theatre in St. Petersburg, Fla., through Apr. 5. Pictured: Matthew McGee and Joey Panek. (Photo by Chad Jacobs)
“The Invisible Hand” by Ayad Akhtar, at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Ore., through Apr. 5. Pictured: Connor Toms and Imran Sheikh. (Photo by Owen Carey)
“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia through Apr. 19. Pictured: Ian Merrill Peakes and Ben Dibble. (Photo by Mark Garvin)
“The Originalist” by John Strand, at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., through Apr. 26. Pictured: Edward Gero. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP)
“Red Barn” by David Melville and Melissa Chalsma, an Independent Shakespeare Company workshop at Independent Studio in the Atwater Crossing Arts + Innovation Complex in Los Angeles through Mar. 29. Pictured: Julia Aks.
“Slowgirl” by Greg Pierce, at Vermont Stage in Burlinton, Vt., through Mar. 29. Pictured: Paul Schnabel and Gianna Kiehl. (Photo by Lindsay Raymondjack Photography)
“Women Playing Hamlet” by William Missouri Downs, at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Mo., through Mar. 29. PIctured: Kathleen Warfel and Katie Karel. (Photo by Cynthia Levin)
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