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In the theater, Benanti took Broadway by storm at the age of 18 as Maria in The Sound of Music and has subsequently starred in ten more Broadway shows (musicals, straight plays, comedies, and dramas) including Into the Woods, Nine (opposite Antonio Banderas), Gypsy (for which she won a Tony Award®), She Loves Me, My Fair Lady, and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower opposite Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key.  This year, she debuted her highly celebrated solo comedy show Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares, which she created, wrote, and starred in. This New York Times Critic’s Pick is available for streaming on Audible.

By intertwining the real-life and fictional narratives of Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s Monster, Manual Cinema intricately showcases how family, community, and education can shape personhood—or destroy it by their absence. Don't miss out on this haunting interpretation of a classic!

Court Theatre presented the World Premiere of Frankenstein in Chicago, November 2018. Frankenstein had its New York premiere at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival in January 2019 and its international debut in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

This production includes loud sounds, flashing lights and haze.

This engagement of Manual Cinema is made possible in part through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

August 2, 2024 marked the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin, a momentous occasion that is celebrated by the release of one of Ndegeocello’s most intrepid efforts to date. With this new album and concert, Ndegeocello embarks on a prophetic musical odyssey that transcends boundaries and genres, delving headfirst into race, sexuality, religion, and other recurring themes explored in the celebrated writer’s canon. The Wall Street Journal raved “Ms. Ndegeocello’s recorded catalog is too rich and stylistically varied to call any one work her masterpiece. Still, this one qualifies.”

Following 2023’s The Omnichord Real Book, her acclaimed debut for Blue Note Records, which won the inaugural GRAMMY Award for Best Alternative Jazz Album, Ndegeocello renders an immersive and palpable document that is as sagacious, unabashed, and introspective as Baldwin was in life. His prescience is alive nearly forty years after his passing, a testament to his enduring impact. A prolific writer, his essays, novels, plays, and poetry have assessed and often reproached the human condition. As an activist, his oratory prowess in the 1960s was bar none, lending his outspoken views on Black oppression with profundity and eloquence.