Tiny Theater Presents “The Many Voices of Poetry” weekend Performance Series featuring “All the World’s A Stage”

Tiny Theater, in partnership with ByWay Books & More, announces “The Many Voices of Poetry” performance series, a dynamic National Poetry Month weekend celebration. As part of our celebration, this three-day event highlights the power and evolution of poetry as a living, performance-based art form, bringing together artists and audiences in an immersive experience of spoken word, music, and cultural expression.

Tiny Theater invites poets and performers to participate in this celebration. We seek spoken word and slam poets, hip hop, rap artists, Beat-inspired, and experimental poets who feature themes of activism, culture, identity, and resistance.

WEEKEND PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Friday, April 17 | 5:00–7:00 PM

“Voices from the Stage”

Tiny Theater is proud to announce the premiere of Voices From the Stage, a landmark theatrical slam performance bringing the most celebrated monologues in the dramatic canon to life through live performance. Tiny Theater Actors ensemble is launching an evening of tragedy, defiance, and raw human revelation drawn from the works of Shakespeare, Miller, Ibsen, Beckett, O’Neill, and more by the trained and talented actors of Tiny Theater.

“The theatrical monologue is the purest act of performance — one body, one voice, one truth against the silence. Voices From the Stage places that truth in the most intimate stage.

— Bob Marcus

Voices From the Stage is one night performance in which actors perform monologues of tragedy and consequence, defiance and power, the fractured modern self, wit and comedy, desire, love and loss, and the human condition, from the most celebrated playwrights and characters.

The evening runs approximately 120 minutes and includes a post-performance discussion with the performers and our neighbors.

Saturday, April 18 | 3:00–5:00 PM

Beat Poetry, Resistance & Cultural Voices

The program explores poetry of resistance, dissidence, activism, identity, and cultural expression, connecting the legacy of Beat poetry with today’s emerging voices of Beat-inspired readings and contemporary poets

Sunday, April 19 | 11AM-1PM – A SPECIAL EVENT *

Bob Rosenthal on Allen Ginsberg & the Beat Tradition

Readings from Straight Around Allen

Rosenthal will present an intimate look into the life of Allen Ginsberg and the enduring legacy of the Beat Generation, drawing from his acclaimed memoir, Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg. Rosenthal will share firsthand accounts of the practicalities and personalities that defined the Beat scene and an exploration of how Ginsberg’s work bridged the gap between the academic and the counterculture. *A suggested donation of $10.00