Coming January 2025
Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater and NYU Skirball present a new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat, reframing the 1927 production for today, retitled as Show / Boat: A River. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to radio, and from the Spanish-moss south to Chicago in the great migration. Show Boat is a story and a national history marred by violent racism, and yet this pivotal work aspires to a better America. Director David Herskovits’ vision for this quintessential American masterpiece builds on Target Margin’s critically acclaimed history of questioning and re-inventing classical works. This new staging showcases Target Margin’s signature extravagant theatricality, dense layering of design elements, and detailed celebration of language, song, and spirit. Show / Boat: A River brings this old story right to the present, asking how we can re-imagine America in 2025.
Stay tuned this September for more info on Show / Boat: A River.