Stage Top 5: April 2021

Michigan Opera Theatre’s production of “Twilight: Gods”/Photo: Mitty Carter

1
Twilight: Gods
(Lyric Opera)
The final chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle is reimagined as a drive-through multimedia performance in a parking garage, featuring poetic transitions by poet, performer, producer avery r. young.
April 28 – May 2

2
The Cabinet
(Cabinet of Curiosity)
The collective of multidisciplinary theater artists launch their radio theater production arm Phonophobia with an audio dramatization of the Redmoon Theater puppetry adaptation of the German Expressionist silent, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.”
Through May 22

3
Moby Dick in the Dark
(Theatre in the Dark)
The company dedicated to audio plays performs live a new radio theater adaptation of Herman Melville’s masterpiece.
April 1-10

4
Encore
(Goodman Theater)
Free on-demand streams of past Goodman productions from the video vault: “How To Catch Creation,” “Pedro Paramo,” “Smokefall” and “Measure for Measure.”
Through May 9

5
Films.Dance
(Harris Theater)
In partnership with Jacob Jonas The Company and two Los Angeles-based presenters, the Harris streams free and on-demand short dance films by companies around the globe.
Through May 3