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Her Portmanteau at The Strand Theatre 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Her Portmanteau at The Strand Theater

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author: Chris Pence

Photographs & Memories: Her Portmanteau at Strand Theatre Company

Culture shock is a very real side effect of immigration, to which family can be both a cure and an agitator, in varying degrees. As a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, Mfoniso Udofia knows these struggles intimately, sharing her understanding through Her Portmanteau, a profound dive into the hearts and minds of a family working to find connection despite a divide carved by 30 years and 5,300 miles of distance.

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Oleanna at WFB Productions

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Everybody needs to expose themselves to different points of view. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s essential. But what happens when the viewpoints are so skewed there’s no good side to take? What happens when no matter whose viewpoint you see a scenario through you’re in the wrong? It’s exactly that type of dialogue that WFB Productions is attempting to encourage with their production of David Mamet’s Oleanna. Referred to as ‘not-your-mama’s’ Oleanna,

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Brown Sugar Bake-Off at The Strand Theater

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author: Erin Tarpley

Why go out for a night of theatre to see one play when you can go out and see eight?!  In this Co-Production between Strand Theater Company and Two Strikes Theatre Collective, Brown Sugar Bake-Off presents a night (or matinee) of eight 10-minute plays that focus on the theme of mental health, as told through the voices of Black women and non-binary playwrights. 

This year’s 10-Minute Play Festival,

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