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Welcome to the Flynn


This season is diverse, with a truly fabulous breadth of performances: modern and post-modern dance, ballet, and tap; jazz, soul, classical, Americana, Portuguese fado, Jamaican, Brazilian, Haitian, and Irish music; Broadway; historical drama, tragedy, Beckett, Shakespeare, and the downright unclassifiable.


Here are a few that I’m especially looking forward to:


• Guitarist Ry Cooder makes a rare appearance on the concert stage and we’re lucky to have him, along with Ricky Skaggs, and Sharon White. (page 10)


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• Lisa Dwan’s reputation as one of the world’s finest actresses stems from her work in an evening of notoriously difficult Samuel Beckett one-acts. Amazingly, this big-market production is coming to the Flynn on one of this tour’s final stops. (page 20)


• Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq gives one of the best performances I’ve ever seen, a fully committed deep-end dive into a world of pure sound and overwhelming emotion. (page 25)


While the Flynn is best known as a performance venue, its impact stretches beyond what you’ll see in this brochure —our collaborations with Vermont artists and other regional arts organizations, for instance, and our deep commitment to arts education, which includes masterclasses, school visits, and student matinee performances for 35,000 K-12 students.


We also offer funds and resources to help artists create new work. This year, the Flynn is commissioning dance (Lucky Plush’s The Queue), music (a new work by multiple Grammy-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider), and theater (local actor/ director Seth Jarvis’ multi-collaborator work Transitions . . .).


See you in the lobby this season. Steve MacQueen, Artistic Director


Broadway Bullets over Broadway p.7


Ragtime p.13 Once p.14 Mamma Mia! p.18


Dance Lucky Plush p.6


Dorrance Dance p.8 Monica Bill Barnes p.12


Companhia Urbana de Dança p.22


Alonzo King LINES Ballet p.24 Eiko p.25


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Comedy


Improvised Shakespeare Company p.10


Paula Poundstone p.15


Family


Red Kite, Brown Box p.6 A Christmas Carol p.12


TWIN INFINITY: An Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel p.15


The Cat in the Hat p.19 Peking Acrobats p.22


Theater


The Glass Menagerie p.3 Intersections p.9 Transitions... p.11 Black Angels Over Tuskegee p.14 A Midsummer Night’s Dream p.17 Samuel Beckett Trilogy p.20


The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart p.21


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