Boston, Mass.–The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston have joined forces for the first time to create Emerging America — an annual festival devoted to supporting and launching new voices in American theatre.
From May 14 through 16, Emerging America brings some of the country’s most promising performers, writers, companies and directors to Boston for a weekend filled with energy, imagination, creativity and drama.
For more information, visit www.emergingamericafestival.org
Emerging America spans Boston and Cambridge with events happening at all three artistic homes throughout the weekend: the A.R.T. @ OBERON, at 2 Arrow St. Cambridge MA, the Huntington’s Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston, and the ICA at 100 Northern Avenue, Boston.
OVERVIEW OF FESTIVAL EVENTS AND TIMES:
SUNDAY MAY 2nd
A Moving Festival!
A collaboration with the Harvard Square Business Association’s Annual Mayfair. The institutions and artists of the Emerging America Festival create a moving party leading from OBERON to the center of Harvard Square’s Mayfair celebration. Join Boston and Cambridge’s hottest artists for revelry and fun as they parade across the Mayfair mainstage at 1pm and perform in sideshows and dance parties all day long.
Podcast and Walking Tours – launching May 2nd and ongoing throughout the Festival weekend. Find them at www.emergingamericafestival.org
Roam Cambridge and Boston as you discover secret locations and favorite haunts of local and national voices. Hear from artists, leaders, figureheads of Cambridge and Boston, listen to short plays by Huntington Playwriting Fellows inspired by specific locations, and more. Download original podcasts and walking tours created for this festival that celebrate the neighborhoods and artists of each organizations community, past and present.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND OF MAY 14-16
The Festival Tent – open May 14th through 16th
Throughout the weekend come together at the Festival Tent, just outside OBERON at the A.R.T. where festival-goers can grab a drink and meet the artists and audiences from all over Cambridge, Boston and the nation. Feel the festival spirit all weekend.
FRIDAY MAY 14th
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA)
7:30 pm
Disfarmer
«Moving, poignant and occasionally hilarious, Disfarmer is a wonder.» – Variety
Mike Disfarmer was an Arkansas photographer who left behind a body of work now considered one of the most significant in the history of portraiture. This haunting and original work of puppet theater explores the world of this eccentric and reclusive artist. Award-winning director Dan Hurlin takes puppetry to exquisite heights with the unique «tabletop» style: the handlers operate in full view of the audience, not just manipulating but interacting with the puppet hero. A script by Sally Oswald, a country-meets-avant-garde score by Dan Moses Schreier, and Disfarmer’s own photographs complete Hurlin’s portrait of this American original.
Tickets: $20 members, students, and seniors; $25 non-members
Additional performance on Saturday, May 15.
Experiment America
9:30 pm
Kick-off party for Emerging America
For the past three years, the ICA has offered late-night events in which art, new media, creativity, and partying come to
