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SPF 14: Robbin, From the Hood

June 21, 2023 8:41 pm Published by

Two impoverished teens Robbin and Juan, are catapulted into a world of excessive wealth. Robbin attempts to level the playing field though Juan disagrees with her questionable methods....

SPF 14: Lear in Tulsa

June 21, 2023 9:09 pm Published by

Lewis, an aging White, progressive artistic director of a theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma has hired a Black Englishwoman to direct him in his swan song production of “King...

SPF 14: Loud

June 21, 2023 9:16 pm Published by

Three people at three different stages of life. A world that is too much. A existential desire to connect.

SPF 14: American Hunger

June 21, 2023 10:38 pm Published by

Two competing restaurateur immigrant families grapple with their rapidly changing world as the triple threats of gentrification, haute cuisine and high school graduation loom near.

SPF 14: Hairy and Sherri

June 25, 2023 1:32 pm Published by

Hairy and Sherri (Sharon) are an “adorkable” interracial couple living in gentrified East Austin. When they very graciously and very publicly open their home to Ryshi, a 12-year-old...

SPF 14: The Birthday Game

June 25, 2023 1:40 pm Published by

Set during the summer of 2000, against the backdrop of the presidential race between Bush and Gore, at the dawn of reality television, when the Twin Towers stood...

SPF 14: Elephants’ Graveyard

June 25, 2023 1:53 pm Published by

Over the course of one year, two elderly friends meet for alcohol-fueled tea parties where they reminisce, argue, trade insults, and hash over the questions we all torment...

SPF 14: Dung

June 25, 2023 2:33 pm Published by

A hard-working dung beetle has an existential crisis after meeting a millennial, a dung-digger and a high roller on the veld. Has he been wrong all along? Could...

SPF 14: The Virginia Woolf Project

June 25, 2023 2:25 pm Published by

An abstract recounting of the Love Letters exchanged between Virginia Woolf and Vita-Sackville West told through Virginia’s Lens and the impact this relationship had on her marriage, career...

SPF 14: Sax Appeal

June 25, 2023 2:18 pm Published by

When the student is ready, the teacher appears”. Roxy is a fading saxophone talent, Lenny is an upcoming player with a terrible flaw. This passing of the baton...

SPF 14: Everyone is Doing Fine

June 25, 2023 2:01 pm Published by

Art, sex, and capitalism collide in this fast-paced comedy-drama. When two listless art school friends are hired by a hedge fund manager with more than a few secrets,...

SPF 14: High Maintenance

June 21, 2023 10:46 pm Published by

An unfairly disgraced actor makes her comeback in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” – opposite a robot that may bring about the end of the acting profession. “High Maintenance”...

SPF 14: The Refuseniks

June 21, 2023 10:27 pm Published by

A world-class physicist turned heroic freedom-activist leader, Moscow 1978, battles the Soviet regime and his devious KGB handler in his quest for exit visas for dissidents to emigrate...

SPF 14: Reckonings

June 21, 2023 10:08 pm Published by

In a cottage shrouded by thick fog, an aging artist must reckon with the ghosts of his past, at first on the canvas and then, more alarmingly, at...

SPF 14: Year One

June 21, 2023 10:00 pm Published by

Anna struggles to keep her son from getting involved with political extremists who threaten their very way of life. When her brother Max arrives unexpectedly from out of...

SPF 14: Best Life

June 21, 2023 8:33 pm Published by

If you could turn back time, what would you do differently? In this absurdly funny and unsettling play, a woman of color can rewind time, but only within...

SPF 13: Gloria and Her Dragons

June 19, 2022 10:45 pm Published by

A daughter grieving the death of her husband visits her widowed mother, seeking comfort and wisdom. Their time together is interrupted by Gloria and her dragons, the new...

SPF 13: Present Black Fathers

June 19, 2022 10:59 pm Published by

A love letter of sorts. This collection of interviews challenges the stereotype of the “absent Black father.” Four Black dads and one surrogate Black dad spend thirty-five minutes...

SPF 13: The Damage Done

June 19, 2022 2:02 pm Published by

The Damage Done is the result of over a year of interviews with Jane and Dick Doonan – the parents of children swept up in the scourge of...

SPF 13: Body + Blood

June 19, 2022 1:43 pm Published by

A fever dream, a man caught in Limbo. In the midst of a crisis, what do we remember and how? Joshua is a bartender who feels a calling...

SPF 13: According to the Chorus

June 19, 2022 1:07 pm Published by

According to the Chorus is a funny, nostalgic behind-the-scenes look at a pivotal period in the history of Broadway where women’s issues and the AIDS crisis play out...

SPF 13: Sinkhole

June 18, 2022 5:51 pm Published by

When a giant sinkhole hits a small town in Florida, Paul, the prodigal son, goes missing. His sister Naomi believes he’s fallen into the hole, but his mother...

SPF 13: BROKEN

June 18, 2022 5:40 pm Published by

A witty, Two-Act dramatic play about mental illness in an African American family revolving around a woman’s compulsive guilt, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and multifaceted visual and auditory...

SPF 13: The Wake

June 18, 2022 5:29 pm Published by

In life, Colleen was a force of nature. Six months after her death, her sisters Maggie and Rosemary rent a beach house in Florida to scatter her ashes,...

SPF 13: Hecuba

June 18, 2022 11:00 am Published by

Inspired by Euripides’ Hecuba and the peak of the eugenics movement in 1970s Los Angeles, this surreal drama focuses on a Philippine-born baker and mother, Hecuba, as she...

SPF 13: Greater Illinois

June 18, 2022 10:44 am Published by

A woman standing her ground, a gay man terrified for his life, the ghosts that haunt them, and what lengths we’ll go to seek justice. Greater Illinois tells two...

SPF 13: The Binding

June 15, 2022 10:35 pm Published by

A gruff, old summoner in southern Ohio agrees to bind a protective spirit to a stone for one week at the request of a high school graduate who...

SPF 13: Tune In

June 10, 2022 3:50 pm Published by

A young female psychology professor struggles against the patriarchy and her own bipolar disorder to conduct LSD experiments in 1963.

SPF 12: Family Tree

June 6, 2021 11:58 pm Published by

Isabella is losing herself to Alzheimer’s. Her communication comes in repetitive stops and starts, leaving her children to untangle the roots of their past in order to make...