In almost, directed by Donna Costello, three performers steer separate narratives, unraveling internally-imposed and outwardly-enforced identities, as their bodies contort, adapt, destroy, and transform over time — an interactive performance & installation with an ever-changing environment, examining ways we see each other and ourselves. More at NACL.ORG

India Nicole Burton is joined by ensemble members Jaiie Dayo Aliya, Zyrece Montgomery, Molly Andrews-Hinders, and Micheal Akintoye from the Cleveland Public Theatre, who are working on an untitled new performance that reimagines racial history in the Americas. Their point of departure is the question: What would the world look like had any single insurrection ... Read more

An Artful Exchange on Processes and Possibilities Come bear witness to the creative process. There will be a sharing of first drafts, concepts, and ideas for new ways of working, followed by a simple supper and conversation with the artists. Register now   Participating Artists Kristin Marting, Elyse Durand, and Suzi Takahashi Kate Brehm, Andrew ... Read more

CLIFF WESTFALL is a New York City-based honky tonk bandleader. A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, his debut album, Baby You Win, appeared on multiple "Best of 2018" lists, not only in the US but also in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and Sweden. Backed by a five-piece band of some of NYC’s finest musicians, his songs ... Read more

Benedictine & Brandy, or B & B, is the musical duo comprised of Barbara Gogan and Brett Keyser, who over the course of two years have put together a cycle of songs inspired by the changing sounds and atmospheres of the passing seasons. Seasonally Affected is their first public performance to feature songs forming a ... Read more

A STAGED READING / SINGING Join us for a staged reading/singing of a new musical by Obie Award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian and her genre-defying group, the Arbornauts. Animal Wisdom is a folk-blues opera masquerading as a concert of songs and stories written from theoretical or actual (you decide) conversations with the dead. A pastiche ... Read more

A DEEP SPACE PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY What makes a human authentic? Is it their genome sequence? Their DNA profile? Their life experience? Exploring ethnic ambiguity, race and identity, this duet uses original and found text, live cinematography, and contemporary music to explore the science of identity, including genomics, genetics, eugenics, and cloning, all of which impact ... Read more

A DEEP SPACE PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY Keener: A person who keens for someone who has died.  Inspired by a trip to the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum, William Burke and Alaina Ferris resurrect a group of female professional mourners from the late 1800s, and invite them into our lives to wail and keen for our inanimate ... Read more

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE Whether it's salacious Mel Frye or loquacious Walt Whitman, the Slipper Room emcee is sure to ensnare you in his web of intrigue and indiscretion, leading the talented and tawdry band of nouveaux vaudevillians—burlesque dancers, acrobats, comedians, magicians—in a variety show that each year raises the temperature of Highland Lake to the ... Read more