Centenary Stage Company is pleased to present our first Black Box Festival. It will bring three contrasting events to its 100-seat space.

Synonymous with the innovative theatre movement of the 1960s, the "black-box" space provided a canvas for a variety of different genres, designs and exciting theatrical experimentation. Centenary Stage Company celebrates the best of the movement with its own "Black Box Festival", Nov 3-20th, featuring three distinctive productions, highlighting theatricality in sound, lighting, the spoken word, and physical comedy.

CSC’s Black Box Festival celebrates the distinctive and intimate nature of Edith Bolte Kutz Theater of the Lackland Center, beginning with the work of H.G. Wells, and one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written - The Time Machine , running November 3rd through the 6th. Performed by the innovative New York company RadioTheatre, the production combines a unique dramatic presentation of the story with non-traditional content, and modern, inventive stage work.

"It’s a little like Buster Keaton meets the Keystone Kops!" says CSC’s general manager Catherine Rust, of the acclaimed physical comedy work of the company Parallel Exit, performing November 10th through 13th in the Kutz Theater. Their presentation of Exit Stage Left celebrates the era of great vaudevillian physical comedy, blending theatre, movement and music into works of physical theatre designed to transcend age, language, and cultural barriers.

The Festival concludes with Emmy-Award-winning actor Anthony Zerbe’s presentation of It’s All Done With Mirrors…Damn Everything but the Circus, November 17th through the 20th. Veteran of screen and stage, the acclaimed actor brings the poetry of the iconoclastic e.e. cummings to life in a powerful one man show.