This is the TEAM’s newest project in development. Featuring a live musical score, Reconstruction, is about reconstructing ourselves personally and nationally in the harsh light of America’s white supremacist past and present.
A rowdy collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland and featuring music from folk-punk duo The Bengsons, ATGOL follows a woman from West Virginia and two Scotsman on a tour of the Scottish Highlands that exploring self-interest, sacrifice, and the interplay between economic and national identities.
Primer for a Failed Superpower is an all-ages community concert featuring a multi-generational ensemble of teens, the TEAM, and Baby Boomers performing new arrangements of iconic protest songs–songs that have celebrated and questioned what it means to be an American throughout our country’s past and present.
On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann and what kind of man or woman she should become.
A rude, dynamic and desperate love letter to jazz, created and performed by TEAM member Frank Boyd.
“Simultaneously intelligent, rueful, celebratory, delightful and devastatingly sad, the show actually lives up to its ambitions. If after Heartland we can’t put the ‘us’ back in ‘U.S.,’ we’ll no longer have Kansas to blame.”
– Time Out New York, 5 Stars, Top Ten 2007
From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America.
A pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and music that fuses Vegas glitz, Western ballads, and Southern blues.
Give Up! Start Over! is a relentless solo performance about reality television, Richard Nixon, and the search for authenticity in America. Winner of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the work has been seen in London, Glasgow, and New York City.
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world.
On this Giving Tuesday, The TEAM is excited to share this list of organizations that artists from Reconstruction and our Petri Projects love to support. Give what you can to all you can! Petri Project artist Liliana Padilla supports Southern Solidarity, an organization that delivers food, medical resources, and basic needs directly to the unhoused […]
The TEAM is offering two “Devising Within a Democracy” workshops this fall. On November 14, the TEAM artists who brought you RoosevElvis, Libby and Kristen will lead a workshop focused on character creation. Then on December 3, Reconstruction co-directors Rachel and Zhailon will lead a devising workshop focused on directing and facilitating the devising process. […]
Our fourth episode of our Reconstruction Artist Q&A features our brilliant co-directors Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston. In this episode, Rachel and Zhailon discuss “wildness” and how it applies to the Reconstruction room, as well as adapting to freelance life in the middle of the pandemic. To turn on video captions, click the button marked […]
Our third episode of our Reconstruction Artist Q&A, features artists Jerome Ellis and Zhailon Levingston. In this episode, Jerome and Zhailon discuss what “role” means in our rehearsal room and in the world, things that are currently haunting Jerome, and the creation of a “brave space”. To turn on video captions, click the button marked […]