Common Ground Revisted, Courtesy of Huntington Theatre Company
Photo by T. Charles Erickson
Upcoming Projects
Physical Acting Weekend Workshop
March 22 & 23, 2025, Saturday & Sunday, 12pm-5pm
Welcome to our Physical Acting Weekend Workshop! This workshop is intended for actors and performers at all stages of training. Over 2 days, students participate in games and performance projects designed to elicit vocal and physical freedom. The weekend workshop includes elements of Viewpoints, Commedia dell’arte, Clown, and techniques to promote relaxation and self-discovery. Clown is a form of physical acting that invites you to come as you are, shake off your social mask, and explore the health benefits of laughter through movement, performance, and playful improvisation.
Each class begins with a vocal and movement warm-up and includes class discussion with applications for audition techniques, devising original theater, and ensemble development. Throughout the weekend, students participate in exercises to support solo performance as well as working creatively in small groups. There will be a 30-minute break each day for lunch and short breaks as needed.
Studio Playground classes are for everyone: actors, movers, anyone with a desire to connect through laughter and playful improvisation.
Performances
The Lehman Trilogy, June 13 - July 16, 2023
Written by Stefano Massini and adapted into English by Ben Power, The Lehman Trilogy is an epic and timely story of family, ambition, and risk, sprawling across 163 years of history and shining a calculating spotlight on the spectacular rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, a family and a company that changed the world. Carey Perloff (Rock ‘n’ Roll and Mary Stuart at The Huntington, A Thousand Splendid Suns and many others at San Francisco’s ACT) will direct.
Performed entirely by three actors, the story follows the original three Lehman brothers, then their sons and grandsons, as they journey from rags to riches to ruin. In 1840s Alabama, a Bavarian immigrant dreams of a better life for his family. By the early 2000s, his descendants trigger unprecedented financial disaster. In a marvel of storytelling, this extraordinary piece of theatre is both an intimate saga about a family and a monumental exposé of unbridled capitalism.
