Articles Tagged With: Kwame Coker

Urinetown at Street Lamp Community Theatre 📷 Austin Barnes

Urinetown at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Well it’s a hard, cold, tumble of a tourney, jumble of a journey to Urinetown! Actually, it’s a long drive, and it’s pretty hot outside, all the way up to Rising Sun for Urinetown. But my friends, I say— you have to run, freedom-run-freedom-run-awaaaaaay— up there to go and see this fine production! Campy, humorous, creative, clever, with all sorts of piss-taking songs and a company 32 strong in that little black box of Street Lamp Community Theatre,

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Jordan Baumiller (Lion), Abby Koncurat (Dorothy), Kwame Coker (Tinman), and Mo Tacka (Scarecrow) in The Wizard of Oz at Phoenix Festival Theatre 📷 Matthew Peterson of Machpe Photography

The Wizard of Oz at Phoenix Festival Theatre

author: Lisa Standish

There’s a certain magic that happens when a beloved classic finds a fresh stage to call home, and that is precisely what occurred as Phoenix Festival Theatre followed the Yellow Brick Road to the newly renovated Chesapeake Theater. Bringing the 1939 MGM masterpiece to life with vibrant energy, this production of The Wizard of Oz manages to bridge the gap between silver-screen nostalgia and high-spirited live performance. Based on the timeless story by L.

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Sister Act at Phoenix Festival Theatre 📷 Beverly Whaley

Sister Act at Phoenix Festival Theatre

Outside, life is grim. Filled with violence and scandal to the brim! But here within the walls of Phoenix Festival Theatre (currently contained up the road a smidge and across the street at The Amoss Center) there’s hope— there’s joy— there’s love and sisterhood. That’s right, they’re putting the ‘sis’ back in Gensis with their pulse-thumping production of Sister Act— one weekend only! Directed by Shelia Kahle, with Musical Direction by Mia Bray,

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