Celebrate the SIGHTS | SOUNDS | SAMPLINGS of the American Soldier displayed through theater, skin art, music and food! This serves as an opening reception for Robin Slonina, SkinWars, and her Wonder Women Art Collection on display. Douglas Taurel will perform a monologue or two from Emerson Theater Collaborative's upcoming production of The American Soldier […]
The American Soldier is based and inspired by real stories and letters written by veterans and their families from the American Revolution through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It reveals the struggles American soldiers face at war and their internal struggles to come back home. The show strives to help us understand how […]
Emerson Theater Collaborative presents Permanent Collection by Thomas Gibbons; a searing examination of racial politics that ultimately asks how much space -- literally and figuratively -- the white world gives to African-Americans. What is the cost of failing to view the world through another's eyes?
Davinci Code meets the dewy decimal system In this gripping ghost story an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin — 113 years overdue. Sparked by a message left in its margins, he embarks on a magical quest that takes him around the world and 2,000 years into the past. With astonishing […]
During 1970, in Minamata a small fishing village in Japan, a fisherman, Teru Moriya is struggling to make ends meet and to care for his family especially his young, severely disabled daughter. The livelihood of all the fishermen in the village is at stake since many people are falling ill, and the suspected culprit is […]
Coming to Sedona, Arizona is another "unforgettable live theater" produced by Emerson Theater Collaborative and Camilla Ross. A bitter public battle erupts when it is revealed that the site of a new museum enshrining American liberty is the ground on which George Washington's slaves' house once stood. An African-American political activist occupies the site, demanding […]
Join Emerson Theater Collaborative for this deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance—a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the […]
Emerson Theater Collaborative is proud to bring Breaking Glass: a solo play inspired by the life of Julia Margaret Cameron to Mystic, Connecticut. Breaking Glass a staged reading of a new one-woman play, written and performed by Emma Palzere-Rae, inspired by the life of Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Set in 1874, prior to Cameron's return to India, […]
Join the Arts Academy of Sedona, Verde Valley School and Emerson Theater Collaborative for the second annual Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes Readings. January 29, 2025 from 2pm - 4pm. We will have local readers from the community and Verde Valley School. This event is FREE! Just RSVP for the head count. Click here […]
Emerson Theater Collaborative is proud to bring Driving Miss Daisy to the stage on February 21-23, 2025 at Prescott's The Hazeltine Theatre. This play is a winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, […]
WE'RE THRILLED TO BE CELEBRATING OUR TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY IN SEDONA, ARIZONA! Emerson Theater Collaborative is proud to bring Black Irish by Jeffrey Kagan-McCann to Sedona AND Prescott, Arizona. This play is a sharp, funny, and quietly gut-punching one-act following Ruairí Phelan, a young African-American man who crosses the ocean to a tiny Irish farming […]