Hi All!
I am very excited about all my touring, performances and residencies for the coming year with my new show LAY OF THE LAND. Just premiered in LA in May and has started its national tour. (First stops this summer- L.A., Tallahassee, Cleveland Ingenuity Festival and Alaska! "lay of the land" indeed! Coming up is S.F. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Out North in Anchorage, SMU, Southern Illinois University, Coe College and Pacific University. Full schedule below.
BREAKING NEWS! just got a run at the amazing Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago with Lay of the Land for March 15-22. Such a wonderful theater (the old Biograph) with the added frisson of where Dillinger was killed!
I am especially excited to be doing a week long performance workshop in S.F. Nov 15-22 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that will build toward a public performance at Yerba Buena Nov 22. (More info here!) Wanted to let folks know about the workshop! It's open to the public. Space is limited! I will be performing my new show LAY OF THE LAND - all about our post Prop H8 mess- Nov 20-21 at YBCA too! (More info and tickets here!)
LAY OF THE LAND feels super strong and mega timely. Very much the piece I would want to be doing at this juicy time - one year to the day after marriage equality came to California (only to be snatched away months later) And as this issue races all over the country from, Iowa to New England
Great review in L.A. TIMES!
The Los Angeles Times: “Miller's LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller's canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes "Lay of the Land" a vivid, must-see achievement.”
Had a great run of shows this summer of LAY OF THE LAND at the GORGEOUS Hanna Theater. (Where the Ohio regional theater Great Lakes Theater Festival performs.) Amazing restored vaudeville house with a fantastic thrust stage. The Ingenuity Festival was great.
I have thought a lot about a gorgeous moment before my last show at the Hanna on a Sunday. It was so exciting to have the Cleveland gay men's chorus singing out there on 14th street as I scurried over. It was such a beautfiul claiming of space with the chorus there. I can't imagine a more charged way to arrive at the theater before I perform. and then they finished and people piled into the Hanna for LAY OF THE LAND (which really takes place on a street!) It felt full of hope and possibility for all the work we have to do ahead!
Sept 15-22 Anchorage, AK OUT NORTH THEATER
Oct 3-4 Dallas, SMU
Oct 5-11 Southern Illinois University
Oct 19-25 Coe College Cedar Rapids, IA
Nov 2-8 Boston Center for the Arts
Nov 12 Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Nov 14-22 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Jan 27 USC Vision and Voices
Jan 29-30 Vortex Theatre, Austin, TX
Feb 14-20 Ohio Wesleyan University
Feb 22-26 Kenyon College
March 6-13 Ohio University
March 14-22 Chicago, Victory Gardens Theater
April 1-3 Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY
April 5-9 North Carolina School of the Arts
May 15-18 New Orleans, Saints & Sinners Festival
Along with the Chicago run in March, coming up in winter 2010...a huge Ohio tour with residencies at Ohio University, Ohio Wesleyan and Kenyon College.
best, Tim