March 1st 2019
Invention! Adventure! Romance! From the invention of the electric light to the splitting of the atom, the pursuit of science and technology has been a deeply human endeavor. This original production uses movement, music, and puppetry to explore the fascinating evolution of scientific discovery in our modern age.
March 1st 2019
Tony award-winning author Christopher Durang’s outrageous take on the ultimate in bad parenting. In this absurdist satire, Helen and John are completely unprepared for their first child and cannot even decide if it’s a boy or a girl – their doctor tells them they can choose later. In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote, “A playwright who shares Swift’s bleak view of humanity, Durang conquers bitterness and finds a way to turn rage into comedy that is redemptive as well as funny.
March 1st 2019
When a child is born to drug-addicted teens, a social worker is confronted with an unforgiving dilemma. Family secrets, moral ambiguities, faith, biases, and the beleaguered welfare system collide in this riveting and arresting contemporary drama. A play that The New York Times called “smart and absorbing,” “Luna Gale” is sure to provoke questions of how we care for the most vulnerable and at-risk.
March 1st 2019
It is Christmas Eve in 1864 along the icy, war-ravaged Potomac near Washington, D.C. Union and Confederate troops are hunkered down by the river, Abraham Lincoln strategizes for peace while his wife Mary visits the wounded, and former slaves are migrating north in search of freedom. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel weaves a rich tapestry of stories, both historical and fictional, into a drama that intertwines holiday carols, marches and spirituals of the Civil War period. An epic theatrical event that captures a nation in desperate need of hope and healing.
March 1st 2019
Man, woman, life, death, politics, sex, gender, identity, amnesia, identity, asparagus, adventure, literature, science, identity, infinity and beyond!
An Outcry! An Outburst! An American Manifesto!
March 1st 2019
Suburbia, USA. Neighbors, a stagnant economy, unemployment, addiction and a barbecue serve as kindling for this toxically flammable tragicomedy. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, blistering Detroit lays bare the American psyche.
March 1st 2019
In a whirlwind of 57 scenes and a hundred characters, Caryl Churchill Snapchats a world awash in data, examining the ways that our exponentially growing environment of information impacts our interactions, feelings and relationships. Tony Kushner calls Churchill “the greatest living English playwright,” and this brilliant, funny and poignant play reveals a masterwork of contemporary theatre.
Love and Information is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
March 1st 2019
William Shakespeare invented the idea of the teenager in love. In this timeless tale of a pair of star-crossed lovers, the vibrancy and humor of youth clash with the tragedy of passion and misunderstanding. Old feuds, new love, treasured friends and hot-headed enemies all fatefully converge in Verona where “violent delights have violent ends.”
March 1st 2019
Join us for two unique evenings, each a staged reading of one play from Chantal Bilodeau’s “Arctic Cycle” – which explores the impact of the current climate crisis on Arctic Circle nations – followed by a talk-back with the playwright. On Friday we’ll present Sila, which includes characters representing competing and intertwined interests about the future of the Canadian Arctic.
Return on Saturday for Forward, set in Norway from 2017 to 1893 and centered around explorer Fridtjof Nansen’s race to the North Pole.
March 1st 2019
A satire of populism, government inefficiency, waning natural resources, corporate mismanagement, and bodily functions. Like…right now, only with better songs, dance, music, and hair.