Pamela Gien refers to Seattle as the "birthing place" of her one-actor epic "The Syringa Tree." The show premiered at ACT Theatre nearly five years ago. And now ACT is a place where Gien's robust ...

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) presents the award-winning play The Syringa Tree, a deeply moving coming-of-age story set in South Africa. This engaging one-woman drama, which has ...

Ensemble Theatre’s production of The Syringa Tree, which opened Saturday at the Alhecama, is a one-woman show, peopled with 24 separate and distinct characters. Written and originally performed by ...

Studio Arena Theatre is pleased to present THE SYRINGA TREE, by Pamela Gien, by special arrangement with Matt Salinger. A recipient of the Village Voice Obie Award for Best Play of the Year in 2001, ...

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The best thing about Pamela Gien’s The Syringa Tree is the central character who tells most of the story, a six-year-old child named Elizabeth. She’s sometimes cute, but she’s also smart, bratty and ...

I’ve never seen LaSonya Natividad perform without smiling. That streak continued through the beginning of Rochester Civic Theatre's “The Syringa Tree,” set in apartheid South Africa. Natividad plays ...

In ‘The Syringa Tree, ’ Scranton native Maura Malloy plays 24 characters who range in age, race and gender. SCRANTON- After a well-received run in January of this year, “The Syringa Tree,” starring ...

This is how it all begins: Night falls, a group of people — a family, a clan, a tribe — gathers around a campfire. The flames crackle, the wind whispers, and under the starry sky, one person begins to ...

RIGHT: Scranton native Maura Malloy plays 24 characters, male and female, old and young, black and white, in the poignant play ‘The Syringa Tree,’ presented by The Electric Theatre. Though she grew up ...

Sometimes a stage is crowded with actors and still seems a very empty place. At other times a single performer walks on and carries a whole world with her. The latter is the stirring effect Gin ...