This play is inspired by the Gospel’s writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and another Gospel, the fragmented GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE. Mary Magdalene’s Gospel, discovered in 1896 in Cairo, Egypt, continues her story, describing a subsequent meeting with the Apostles.
The Catholic Church has consistently diminished the role of women throughout its history. Only recently has Mary Magdalene’s influence has been acknowledged and early claims trying to diminish her as a prostitute dismissed. This play attempts to look at the early, tumultuous history of the church through the eyes a major figure largely excluded from it.
In first-century Nazareth, Mary, an unmarried teenage girl, finds herself pregnant. If she cannot “sort this out” it will likely spell death. But then… could it not perhaps be something else? Something glorious?
It’s finals week at a small liberal arts college in rural Pennsylvania. A tight-knit group of roommates pull one last all-nighter to complete their final assignments. Holed up in an old ballroom, the hours pass, the pressure mounts, the adderall flows, and the truths that have always bound this group together are put to the test. What will be left when the sun rises?
After a brutal car wreck in the mountains of Oregon, a young couple seeks shelter from a blizzard in a small cabin. But the cabin’s seemingly innocent inhabitants: four children and their minder, quickly start to expose the couple’s secrets, unmake everything they know about themselves, and hurl them towards a potentially sinister destination. GREY HOUSE is a new horror play about the gravity of the past and the cruel inevitability of its pull.
In 1888, four men aboard a whaling ship—Mate, a haunted soul; a guilt-ridden Captain; Little Brother, an adventurous romantic; and his devout sibling, Big Brother—are shipwrecked off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Stranded on a lifeboat, they are forced to confront their pasts, moral choices, and the limits of human endurance as they fight for survival. Their story unfolds through the poetic book by John Logan and the hauntingly beautiful and raw music of The Avett Brothers, with a gripping narrative that explores themes of sacrifice, forgiveness, brotherhood, and redemption. Performed in one act, the show keeps audiences immersed and emotionally on edge throughout the harrowing journey.
Z, a gay teenager, and his father live together in a crumbling old house in rural Georgia. When Z discovers a trove of mysterious love letters among his late grandfather’s belongings, he goes on a journey of self discovery that just may have the power to wake the dead. THE MAGNOLIA BALLET is a Southern Gothic fable about a Queer Black boy, his father, and the ghosts that live in the walls of their old family home.
Courtney Berringers would like to welcome you to her wake! But—make no mistake—this ain’t your grandma’s funeral. AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN is an imaginative one-act play that uses magical realism, mythology, drama, and drag to tell the story of a pair of drag queens living (and dying) in rural Georgia in 2004. From African Gods and Goddesses to Trina and Whitney Houston, AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN explores identity, illness, and the celebration of Black, queer life in the rural south. Come party at the wake. Bring your own heels!
CREDITORS is the suspenseful tale of two men who meet at a seaside resort in Sweden—a sculptor and a mysterious stranger—only to discover that they have something unexpected in common; a woman. In Wright’s adaptation of Strindberg’s forgotten masterwork, all three characters engage in a deadly game of wits, opening old wounds and inflicting fresh ones. Written in 1888, the play still bears its ferocious sting, and is reminiscent of the most contemporary erotic thrillers with its blend of toxic desire and wicked intent.
When Agatha Christie invites you to spend the summer at an estate in the English countryside, you know you won’t be sipping tea and playing croquet. Indeed, when John Cavendish invites his dear old friend Nick Hastings to Styles Court, murder ensues. And who better to solve it than Hercule Poirot, in his debut? Come along as Poirot and Hastings unravel the delicious and mysterious affair at Styles.
PEN PALS is an epistolary play that tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between two ordinary women. Bernie, from Newark, New Jersey, starts writing to Mags, who lives in Sheffield, England, when she’s 14-years-old and their correspondence continues for the next five decades.
The play is essentially an extended flashback where the women read the letters they sent to each other over the past 50 years. Without the aid of costumes, make-up, or wigs, the actors age before the audience’s eyes as they tell the stories of their lives.
