Oakland Theater Project

You're not going to want to miss OTP's Solo Show Series from September 14 -22! Two POWERFUL shows developed in part at OTP's studio!🎭💖

Oakland Theater Project is thrilled to present Company Member Champagne Hughes’s new solo show '(NO MORE) adjustments' and Dan Hoyle returns to OTP after the workshop performance to present the official production of 'Takes All Kinds'!✨

Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/4cHKcKO

You can now choose your seats for both parts of ANGELS IN AMERICA! Don't miss Oakland Theater Project's most ambitious production ever, presented at Marin Shakespeare Company's new indoor theater in San Rafael!✨

Choose Your Seats Here —> oaklandtheaterproject.org/angels

Meet the cast of "Angels in America Parts I & II" presented by Oakland Theater Project and Marin Shakespeare Company!!🎭✨

Get your tickets for this must-see classic here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/angels

Teatro Jornalero OPENS TONIGHT!!🎉✨

Get your tickets to the show that will be CLOSING TOMORROW now here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/otp-presents-teatro-jornalero

"The idea of forming a theater troupe, let alone producing a performance series, would have sounded far-fetched to Teatro Jornalero’s members just four years ago. The show originated as an art exhibition called Undocumented Heart: Oakland Day Laborers Tell Their Stories..."✨

To check out the full article head here: https://oaklandside.org/2022/12/07/oakland-teatro-jornalero-larger-audience/

Just TWO DAYS LEFT until 'Teatro Jornalero' returns to the OTP stage!👀🔥

Grab your tickets now to this multi-lingual documentary theater performance now at here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/otp-presents-teatro-jornalero

Teatro Jornalero is RETURNING to OTP for two nights on June 28th and 29th!🙌🎭

A group of Central American and Mexican day laborers in Fruitvale formed the Teatro Jornalero/Day Laborers Theater, breaking through the safety of silence to share their stories with the wider public. In this multi-lingual documentary theater performance, they reveal not only their own intimate histories and hopes, but also deep cultural roots, and the tragic effects of global force💖

Learn more and get tickets here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/otp-presents-teatro-jornalero

Check out this INCREDIBLE illustrated review of "Ghost of King" by Fred Noland for New Haven Independent!!💖

Huge thanks to Fred and make sure you go read the full review here: https://bit.ly/3VRI5yy

And grab your tickets for "Ghost of King" while you still can before it CLOSES SUNDAY here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

🚨LAST CHANCE to see Ghost of King before it CLOSES THIS Sunday! Get your tickets to this "Beautifully Told" and "MESMERIZING" show now here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

Thank you Charlsie Kern Kruger and TheatreStorm for the review!✨

LAST CHANCE to see Ghost of King before it CLOSES THIS WEEKEND! Get tickets now to the show being called "MESMERIZING" and "POWERFUL" here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

"In “Ghost of King,” Turner not only delivers King’s final sermon in its entirety, but he also channels the great orator himself with his vocal inflections and physical movements..."✨

Thank you Sally Hogarty and the East Bay Times for the EXCELLENT review! Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/3zhWknt

This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to see Ghost of King so get your tickets now at the link in bio!🔥🚨

"Captivating from start to finish, GHOST OF KING brings the power of MLK’s words to life... A poignant piece of theater. Brimming with energy and careful choices, it is a show in which every word matters."👀✨

Thank you to Kelly Rogers Flynt and BroadwayWorld for the FANTASTIC review! Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/3VpZ6id

"King’s words evoke bereavement and despair—but also inspiration. Turner adeptly brings forth the ultimate message of affinity, brotherhood, and the recognition that we are all interconnected..."💖

Thank you K. Marguerite Caronna and Theatrius for the AMAZING review! Read the full review here: https://bit.ly/45p2MoH

"The production is acted in a fog-filled, candlelit theater on a bare wooden floor, with a raised pulpit in the center. The news and video clips of King’s assassination shown on the theater’s wall were effective in bringing immediacy and significance to the tragedy of his death..."💖

Thank you to Emily S. Mendel and Berkeleyside for the WONDERFUL review!✨🎭

Make sure to snag your tickets to "Ghost of King" here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

Only Sunday night tickets available for 'Ghost of King'!🚨 Get yours fast before they're all gone!!!✨🔥

Get your tickets here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

Meet the creator and star of Ghost of King!✨🎭

Michael Wayne Turner III is a classically trained thespian and award winning poet. He has shared stages with the likes of Daveed Diggs, the Kronos Quartet, and Beyoncé to name a few. A winner of "The Moth Story Slam'' and triple award winner at the International Conference of Performance Art and Creativity. A 2023 REACH Artist Resident at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Turner’s work was recently published in Acadia Magazine UK. His written work is currently on display at Pixar HQ as part of the critically acclaimed art exhibition, THROUGHLINE.

Get tickets here: https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/king

We have been voted in by the East Bay public to the FINALS for East Bay Express/East Bay Magazine's Best of the East Bay 2024!!!💖🎉

You have until JUNE 16th to vote for us as in the "Best Small Theater Company" category! Head here to VOTE NOW: https://bit.ly/4bWm5rP

Breaking News! Governor Newsom proposes a 58% cut to arts program funding in 24-25 May revise of California budget. Arts Advocates Launch Campaign Urging Governor Newsom to Reverse Arts Funding Cuts Proposed in May Revise.

While Newsom shared that “core services are protected” his proposal includes decimating 100% of the funding for implementing SB 1116, the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund ($12.5 million) and 38% ($10 million) of the state arts agency or California Arts Council’s $26 million in grants to arts nonprofits.

For too long, California’s artists, tradition bearers, cultural organizations and creative businesses have carried the weight of the state’s preeminence as a cultural producer and creative economy on their shoulders alone, without adequate sustained public investment. Access to arts, culture and creative expression is a core service that delivers a multitude of public impacts. These opportunities weave the social fabric of our communities, empower individuals, engage youth, vivify places, bond groups, bridge differences and transform lives, building community health while driving over 8% of the state’s economy, supporting 847,688 jobs and generating 7.3% of state tax revenue.

California Arts Advocates with coalition partners Actors' Equity Association and Theatre Producers of Southern California will work alongside creative industry leaders and statewide advocates to urge the Governor and Legislature to recognize the drastic nature of these cuts and the destabilizing threats they pose to the livelihoods of the creative workforce and to the promise of core California values.

TAKE ACTION TODAY!
Read our full press release: https://www.caartsadvocates.org/news/press-release-reverse-arts-funding-cuts-proposed-in-may-revise
Send a Letter to your Reps: https://secure.everyaction.com/jDPLaTbm-0C59oel6RQxRQ2

"Amelio Garcia’s one-act adaptation finds the shepherd killed by Heracles to now be a young trans boy (Romeo Channer) who makes the mistake of falling for a bad boy. As one does at that age..."✨

Thank you Charles Lewis III and 48Hills for the GREAT review! Get your tickets now for the final week of Red Red Red' at the link in bio!💖🎉