We Can Never Go Back to Before
This is a lyric from the musical RAGTIME, a show based on a book about America at the turn of the century. It exemplifies how in a time of radical change there is no reaching back for normalcy or the nostalgia of the comforts we once knew.
THE GAZE is a cycle of plays that examines the process of building culturally specific and queer works of color in historically white spaces. It tackles hard topics like racism head on. It wrestles with the question:
Why strain to be free under a gaze fixed on your imprisonment when it’s you who is holding the key? Why stay? Go where? No Homo is the first play in the cycle.
We all hold the keys to our own freedom, and together we can unlock brand new worlds.
Larry Powell, a creative powerhouse who is always looking forward, has reached out to something much bigger than himself to write a future that many artists are being told doesn’t exist for them. A future, like the dawn of the 20th century, of new means of production, fresh storytelling, and community building in the midst of a global pandemic.
Larry has adapted his epic play THE GAZE …No Homo into a 12-part, multi-platform online experience unlike anything audiences have seen before.
Welcome to Evergreen.
Evergreen is every prestigious theater company and we’ve brought it to life to give our viewers a chance to not just see Evergreen, but to experience it.
Note: Due to events surrounding 2020, The Evergreen Festival has closed its doors. We hope that, one day, we can emerge be reborn like a Phoenix from the ashes of our mistakes.
The New Media series will feature an extraordinary cast including: Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, Queen Sugar, Shameless), Yvette Cason (Dreamgirls, A Wrinkle in Time), Devere Rogers (Will & Grace, My Spy, Sherman’s Showcase), Galen J. Williams (Pose, Motown The Musical), Jason Green (The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo), Eugene Byrd (Star Wars, 8 Mile, Bones), and TC Carson (God of War, Star Wars:The Clone Wars, Living Single).