CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF ADAPTIVE THEATRE!
Theatre B and HOPE, Inc. are proud to celebrate the fifth year of our Adaptive Theatre partnership—a program built on the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to create, perform, and experience the arts.
Over the past five years, Adaptive Theatre has grown into a joyful and welcoming creative home where participants of all abilities develop performance skills, build confidence, form meaningful friendships, and share their stories with our community. What began as a small collaboration has become one of Theatre B’s most meaningful annual programs.
We are once again practicing and playing through Adaptive Improv! Throughout the rehearsal process, participants have worked alongside Theatre B teaching artists in a collaborative buddy system, learning lines, exploring characters, and bringing a complete theatrical story to life.
Adaptive Theatre is grounded in inclusion, accessibility, creativity, and celebration. It is a reminder that the arts are strongest when everyone has a place in the story.
Join us as we celebrate the remarkable talents, hard work, and accomplishments of this year’s Adaptive Theatre artists and the five-year partnership between Theatre B and HOPE, Inc.
SHOWCASE PERFORMANCES
Friday, June 5 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, June 6 at 11:00 AM
Saturday, June 6 at 2:00 PM
All performances are Pay What You Will, with tickets starting at just $5.
Come celebrate five years of creativity, courage, community, and theatre for all.
“Every Brilliant Thing is sad, but it is also gloriously funny and exceptionally warm.
It’s a show that spells out a little of what depression can do to people, but it also highlights the irrepressible resilience of the human spirit and the capacity to find delight in the everyday.”
– Time Out London
EVERY BRILLIANT THING
by Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe
Every Brilliant Thing is a powerful, heartwarming, and surprisingly funny play about the lengths we go to for those we love—and the small, beautiful moments that make life worth living.
The story begins when a 7-year-old’s mother attempts suicide, prompting the child to start a list of everything brilliant in the world. As the years unfold—through adolescence, love, loss, marriage, and grief—the list grows, abandoned and revived, eventually reaching one million entries.
Blending comedy, improvisation, and intimate audience interaction, this immersive experience invites us to walk alongside one individual navigating the shadow of a parent’s mental illness while learning to face their own.
Moving and life-affirming, Every Brilliant Thing reminds us that even in our darkest moments, hope can be found in life’s smallest miracles.
Directed by Scott Ecker, and performed by Alex Kleven and Christopher Taylor (alternating performances listed below), this interactive solo show incorporates audience participation.
THEATRE B PERFORMANCES:
Fridays at 7:30pm: May 1, 8, 15
Saturdays at 7:30pm: May 2, 9, 16
Sundays at 2:00pm: May 3, 10, 17
ASL Performance: Sunday, May 17th
Sunday Salon: May 10th (after the matinee)
This show is a little different– in another wonderful way. Because Every Brilliant Thing is a one-person story, we have two actors stepping into the role of the Narrator, taking turns across the run.
Alex Kleven and Chris Taylor will each bring this story to life on alternating nights, and each has a distinct, personal way of telling it.
No two performances are quite the same – and that’s part of the magic. We warmly encourage you to come more than once and experience how the story shifts and unfolds through their different voices, rhythms, and connections with the audience.
CHRIS TAYLOR PERFORMANCES
May 1, 3, 9, 15, 17
ALEX KLEVEN PERFORMANCES
May 2, 8, 10, 16
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