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2021-2022 Season

Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

WP Theater presents Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s
Many Happy Returns

choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes
written by Robbie Saenz de Viteri
featuring Monica Bill Barnes, Robbie Saenz de Viteri, with Flannery Gregg, Mykel Marai Nairne, and Indah Walsh
associate producer: Elizabeth Furman
costume design: Danté Anthony Baylor
lighting design: Barbara Samuels
set design: Aoshuang Zhang

 

August 2 - 5

“It should make your head spin in the best of ways!” –The New York Times on One Night Only at WP Theater Monica Bill Barnes & Company team up with WP Theater to welcome audiences back to the theater with Many Happy Returns, an inventive and intimate new dance piece. Created by Robbie Saenz de […]

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Welcome Home, or Ten Tiny Snapshots of WP

Welcome Home, or Ten Tiny Snapshots of WP

conceived and created by Rebecca Martínez
sound design & editing by Christopher Darbassie
contributing artists: Kate Benson, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, and Journey Brown-Saintel, Laylanie Farris, Kziana Flores, Michelan Le’Monier, Alexandria Russell from viBe Theater Experience
narration: Soneela Nankani
featuring archival audio from: Billie Allen, Kathleen Chalfant, María Irene Fornés, Emily Mann, Julia Miles, Wendy Wasserstein and a few surprises…

September 24 - October 2

Welcome Home is an audio tour that invites up to four audience members at a time to explore what makes them feel at home in our theater space on the Upper West Side. This choose-your-own adventure journey of ten audio snapshots offers behind the scenes peeks to WP’s past, present and future. Featuring voices and […]

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by Charly Evon Simpson
directed by Summer L. Williams

featuring Marinda Anderson, Brittany Bellizeare, Andy Lucien, and Rolonda Watts.

a co-production with Vineyard Theatre

 

February 6-March 13

Angela and Odessa are on a sandy search for something that might not be real but they are determined to make a way out of no way. When they stumble upon ADAH, that’s right THE Celebrity-turned-Wellness-Maven Adah, they decide to follow her lead not knowing that the journey could very well be the cure. sandblasted […]

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The 2022 Pipeline Festival

The 2022 Pipeline Festival

written, directed and produced by Iyvon E., B.J. Evans, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Chika Ike, Nambi E. Kelley, Kristin Leahey, Haruna Lee, Zizi Majid, Ayana Parker Morrison, Daaimah Mubashshir, Sophiyaa Nayar, Machel Ross, Cynthia J. Tong, Katherine Wilkinson

March 24 - May 14
Returning live and in-person with one production to stream

Want to catch the best new work by the most exciting new artists in town? Wondering where to meet the next generation of incredible Women+ theatermakers? Don’t miss WP’s Pipeline Festival, a unique opportunity to see five new works, created by five collaborative teams from WP Theater’s celebrated two-year Lab residency. The Pipeline Festival gives […]

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