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Announcing our 2011/2012 season
May 27 2011
Blackbird Theater is truly excited to announce our second season, featuring two shows you won’t find within 500 miles or fifty years of here.
G.K. Chesterton’s Magic
August 12-27
Directed by Wes Driver
Magic is a funny, fiercely dramatic, unabashedly romantic play that involves an aristocratic family whose conflicting beliefs and doubts about the supernatural are all challenged by the arrival of a mysterious conjurer. Its author, G.K. Chesterton, though unknown to most people today, was one of the towering intellectuals of the early twentieth century - his friend and foil George Bernard Shaw called him “a man of colossal genius” - and this enchanting play eloquently expresses Chesterton’s unmatched wit and sense of wonder. You won’t want to miss this rare staging of G.K. Chesterton’s Magic. Read more.
Tickets on sale in July.
Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures
February 9-19
The modern master of musical theater is renowned for Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, and Company. But one of his most compelling works is the rarely produced gem Pacific Overtures.
In 19th century Japan, an unlikely friendship is forged between the samurai Kayama and the Americanized fisherman Manjiro in the wake of a U.S. naval mission to secure trade relations with the reclusive nation. Kayama and Manjiro - and all of Japanese society - must face the wave of Westernization that follows. Read more.
Join us at Shamblin Theater on the beautiful Lipscomb University campus for these two once-in-a-lifetime productions!