Open-Captioned Performance: Saturday, February 26 at 2pm – An LED sign presents dialogue in sync with the performance. NOTE: Touch Tours for the 2021/2022 Season will not have access to the stage due to current health and safety protocols, but will feature alternate pre-show sensory introductions.ĪSL-Interpreted Performance: Friday, February 25 at 8:00pm – A professional American Sign Language interpreter signs the action/text as played. Touch Tour and Audio-Described Performance: Saturday, February 19, 12:30pm Touch Tour 2pm performance – The action/text is audibly enhanced for patrons via headset. Fahey is the Production Stage Manager and Nikki Blue is the Stage Manager. Dramaturgy is by Jared Bellot and Fatima Sowe. Rains-Rutherford Selig and TayLar-Aunt Ester.Ĭasting is by Lauren Port, CSA and Rachael Jimenez, CSA. Conner-Eli/Caesar Krystel McNeil-Black Mary Joseph Primes–Solly Two Kings Ron E. Understudies for this production include Wardell Julius Clark-Citizen Barlow Ronald L. When a suspicious traveler appears at her door in search of a new life, Aunt Ester guides him on a journey of spiritual awakening.īy August Wilson, Directed by Chuck Smith

There is solace to be found at the home of 285-year-old Ester Tyler, keeper and transmitter of African American history and cleanser of souls. It’s 1904, the dawn of the new century-yet slavery’s shadow looms large. Tensions flare into riots across Pittsburgh’s Hill District as chaos threatens a city desperate for freedom.

Goodman Theatre is grateful for the support of Sponsor Partners Abbott Fund and Allstate. More details about “Hidden Gems,” including information about participating artists, will be released soon. Tickets ($25 - $80, subject to change) are now available at /Gem or by phone at 312.443.3800.

Gem of the Ocean appears January 22 – February 27 opening night is January 31. In conjunction with the production, audiences can support local African American artisans at “Hidden Gems: A Celebration of African American Artists & Art”-an on-site pop-up market featuring arts, crafts and more, available prior to and post select shows. Originally directed by the late Marion McClinton at the Goodman in 2003, Gem of the Ocean is the play that chronically launches Wilson’s famed “American Century Cycle”-10 plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, that together chronicle 100 years of the African-American experience. Resident Director Chuck Smith, who served as the original production’s dramaturg, directs a cast of seven-featuring Sharif Atkins (Citizen Barlow), Sydney Charles (Black Mary), Lisa Gaye Dixon (Aunt Ester), Gary Houston (Rutherford Selig), Kelvin Roston, Jr. (Caesar), A.C. Goodman Theatre kicks off the new year with a major revival of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean-nearly two decades after the play premiered on the same stage.

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