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Patron Note:
The venue is not currently wheelchair accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Content Warning:
Flashing lights, haze, loud noises (including gunshots and sounds of violence), strong language and racial slurs, depiction of physical violence.

TAMBO & BONES
By Dave Harris
(Incendiary-Woolly Mammoth; Exception to the Rule-Studio Theatre)
Directed by Ashleigh King
​Featuring Deimoni Brewington, Jeremy Keith Hunter,
​with Clint Blakely and Robert Bowen Smith
Understudies: Everett Judd, Jaden Michael Madgett
FEBRUARY 12 - MARCH 7, 2026
Thu-Sat 7:30pm
Sun 2pm (2/22 & 3/1 only);
NOTE: at these Sunday performances, Jaden Michael Madgett performs the role of Bones usually played by Jeremy Keith Hunter.
plus Mon 2/16 7:30pm (Industry Night), and Wed 3/4 7:30pm.

Purchase Tickets

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Pay-What-You-Can: Feb. 12 & 13 at 7:30pm

Industry Night: Mon, Feb. 16 at 7:30pm
Added Show: Wed, March 4 at 7:30pm
Post-Show Discussions TBA:

“Not your typical play about race... Harris has created a HALLUCINOGENIC COLLAGE in which ideas about protest and history, art and moneymaking tumble over each other” - The Times

"will make you second-guess everything you do in a theater…Tambo & Bones gets THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE MARKS” - TheaterMania

“…INVENTIVE AND IMMERSIVE, constantly shape-shifting to both unsettle and surprise us.” --Indulge Magazine


“You thought you was gonna sing a song about racism and change the world” – Bones

Tambo and Bones find themselves in a fix: they’re trapped in a minstrel show. And it’s damn hard to know what’s real and what’s not. The escape plan? Get famous…cash in…and get even. This time-traveling hip-hop fantasia from slam poet turned playwright Dave Harris dares to say the quiet part out loud, wrestling with America’s racist past and present and exploding its post-racial future.

Running time: approx 2 hours, including an intermission

​Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, and Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, CA,
produced the Co-World Premiere of TAMBO & BONES in 2022
TAMBO & BONES is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
TAMBO & BONES was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference
(Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer)
TAMBO & BONES was developed with support from SPACE on Ryder Farm
and The Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

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