Around the Coyote
Dancer-choreographer Ginger Farley organized this performance troupe, which combines the disciplines of music and dance. Chopin Theatre, main stage, 7 PM.
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Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy is offered in an outdoor production by the Tripaway Theatre. “Performing Shakespeare under the stars is a popular approach in summer, but what’s a small-budget company to do when their performance space is [without] electric lighting, artificial amplification, and man-made scenery? Well, Tripaway . . . illuminates the stage with patio lanterns, stadium torches, and 17th-century-style candle-and-mirror footlights. The actors are uniformly costumed in white shirts and black trousers–a practical way to deal with multiple casting and with this production’s arboreal balcony scene, which has Juliet straddling the fork of a wind-splintered tree. Moreover, director Karin Shook has instructed her thespians to play their roles with broad characterizations and inflections and plenty of vigorous physical action,” says Reader critic Mary Shen Barnidge. Association House, front lawn, 7 PM.
This multimedia performance installation explores the media’s ability to distort reality. Yello Gallery, 1630 N. Milwaukee, 7 PM.
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Salsation, a Hispanic/Latino improv group, performs a bilingual sketch comedy revue. Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 8 PM.
