Join Us for a Look at our Upcoming National Election through the Blood-Stained Lens of Ancient Rome in our next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon: “Like to a Lonely Dragon: Shakespeare’s Election of Coriolanus”

Join Us for a Look at our Upcoming National Election through the Blood-Stained Lens of Ancient Rome in our next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon: “Like to a Lonely Dragon: Shakespeare’s Election of Coriolanus”

In-Person and Online Friday, October 9 at 8:00 pm (CDT) We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Friday, October 9 with an election season look at William Shakespeare’s most political and perhaps relevant tragedy…

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Join Us for our next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon: In a Purple Mood: Alice Walker

Join Us for our next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon: In a Purple Mood: Alice Walker

In-Person and Online Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 pm (CDT)

We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Sunday, September 27 with a celebration of the author of The Color Purple in our Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series.

In a Purple Mood: Alice Walker will be presented both in-person on TSC’s Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage and simulcast online beginning at 3:00 pm (CDT), will be followed by a brief talkback with the actors. The Salon will run approximately 45 minutes.

Curated and directed by TSC’s Carmen-maria Mandley and featuring TSC’s core company actors, including Darius Wallace, In a Purple Mood will include Ms. Walker’s poetry (Taking the Arrow out of the Heart), material from her interviews, and excerpts read from The Color Purple.

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A Healing, Hopeful Look at our Country’s Racial Divide in our Next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon

A Healing, Hopeful Look at our Country’s Racial Divide in our Next Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon

In-Person and Online Friday, September 11 at 8:00 pm (CDT) – We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Friday, September 11 with the second of nine Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salons titled Creative Extremists: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Malcolm X. The 45-minute Salon, presented both in-person on TSC’s Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage and simulcast online beginning at 8:00 pm (CDT), creatively follows the inspirations, emergence, and actions of three men fighting for racial justice and equality in America.

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“Take Upon’s the Mystery of Things: Classical Creativity in Quarantine”

“Take Upon’s the Mystery of Things: Classical Creativity in Quarantine”

Online-Only Sunday, August 30 at 3:00 pm (CDT) — We launch our “Essential” 13th performance season this Sunday, August 30 with the first of nine Coger Literary Salons titled Take Upon’s the Mystery of Things: Classical Creativity in Quarantine. Please join us for this special 45-minute Salon, presented online-only beginning at 3:00 pm (CDT), as we seek out history’s classical creations from within isolation as inspirations for our own modern quarantine and pandemic.

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