Also on tap: Piano star Jean-Yves Thibaudet; ‘Passing Strange’ returns to Berkeley; ‘Bedtimes Stories’ at Stanford.
Adrian Roberts stars in Oakland Theater Project’s “The Tempest.” Oakland Theater Project kicks off its 2022 season, titled with a contemporary, 90-minute adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” helmed by company artistic director Michael Socrates Moran. Through the streamlined book and some casting switch-ups, the play “explores the ways in which we are exiled in today’s world because of the cycle of our history,” says an OTP release. Adrian Roberts and Abril Centurion head a cast of eight.
The cast also features Cuban American soprano Elaine Alvarez as Desdemona, bass-baritone Philip Skinner as Iago, and tenor Alex Boyer as Cassio. Mezzo-soprano Layna Chianakas, who directed the company’s superb double bill of “The Florentine Tragedy” and “Gianni Schicchi” in 2020, returns as the production director, and is also singing the role of Emilia. Music director Alexander Katsman conducts.7:30 p.m. Saturday and March 12, 2 p.m.
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