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SPF 11: And One More Thing…

July 6, 2020 11:48 pm Published by

An elderly woman messages a friend to meet her on a bench outside their retirement community for laughs and conversation.  Some topics arise that by turn are funny,...

SPF 11: Agathe

July 6, 2020 11:19 pm Published by

Twenty-six years after the Rwandan genocide, AGATHE is inspired by the woman who served as the country’s president for just fourteen hours and, during one of the darkest...

SPF 11: Pictures From Home

July 6, 2020 11:10 pm Published by

In 1981 Photographer Larry Sultan set out to create a portrait of his parents, Jean and Irv, tracing his family’s journey from postwar Brooklyn to California’s San Fernando...

SPF 11: Balls

July 6, 2020 11:03 pm Published by

While getting ready for a college Halloween party, a young couple’s night takes a turn when Paul reveals to his girlfriend Kara that he has testicular cancer, and...

SPF 11: Reykjavík

July 6, 2020 10:45 pm Published by

In the city of Reykjavík, we eavesdrop on the intertwined lives of lovers, hospitality workers, partygoers, and even a really handsome bird or two. This frank exploration of...

New York Mets

July 24, 2020 10:00 pm Published by

On the lower east side of Manhattan, in a place called “Phil’s Typewriter Repair and Manuscript Shop,” three friends desperately try to communicate their love and dreams to...

The Angels of Lemnos

July 24, 2020 11:47 pm Published by

Nathan Spandrel is searching for his “Gift from God” promised to him by his fifth-grade teacher. When he finds it, the miracle of his life unfolds before us....

A Mislaid Heaven

July 25, 2020 12:11 am Published by

A Mislaid Heaven takes place in a small fishing village on the Western coast of Ireland in 1921, during the chaotic months before the signing of the controversial...

The Woman in Black

July 25, 2020 8:49 pm Published by

The framework of this spine-tingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him...

Ouroboros

July 25, 2020 9:22 pm Published by

The story of two American couples that get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Margaret, a nun, falls in love with Philip, a married...

A Christmas Carol

July 25, 2020 9:29 pm Published by

A man with a flair for telling stories describes the very first time he heard the classic Dickens tale; as a child growing up in a camp of...

Backwards in High Heels

July 25, 2020 10:05 pm Published by

For better or worse, in sickness and in health and back again, Michael and Gen dance their way through the Greatest Generation of war and peace, fame and...

Swimming

July 25, 2020 10:36 pm Published by

Swimming is a modern-day cautionary tale of the destructive power of a lie. Set in rural Kansas, David nad Denise meet, fall in love, and marry. But 10...

Cuts

July 25, 2020 10:42 pm Published by

A cutting-edge theatrical event written by eight members of the Dog Ear Playwrights.

Big Death & Little Death

July 25, 2020 11:13 pm Published by

A dark and wildly funny portrait of death, neglect, hunger, rage, yearning, war, and car accidents. Big Death & Little Death is an apocalyptic fairy tale that promises...

Madagascar

July 30, 2020 4:37 pm Published by

Madagascaris the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever. Three Americans — at three different times — find themselves alone, in the same hotel...

Homefree

July 30, 2020 8:16 pm Published by

This is a dark urban fairy tale about three cast out teens and the flip side of the American dream. Franklin, Breezy, JJ. Kicked out for being gay,...

Birder

July 30, 2020 8:37 pm Published by

Birder follows middle-aged accountant Roger, who, upon discovering a house finch nesting outside his home in Los Feliz, finds himself forced to question his most basic assumptions about...

John is a Father

July 30, 2020 8:44 pm Published by

Recovering alcoholic John Owens was estranged from his family for decades before his son, a Marine, was killed in Afghanistan. Now, six years later, he receives an invitation...

The Play About the Baby

July 30, 2020 10:00 pm Published by

Equally hilarious and frightening, Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby is a darkly comic dramatic fable by Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright Edward Albee. A young couple, madly in...

White Guy on the Bus

July 30, 2020 10:04 pm Published by

Ray, a white financial manager from an affluent neighborhood, has a loving wife and a liberal family. Shatique is a black nursing student and single mom from the...

Little Children Dream of God

July 30, 2020 10:08 pm Published by

Having braved a perilous journey to escape a violent husband and a volatile political climate in her native Haiti, Sula is determined to find a better life in...

Stupid Kid

July 30, 2020 10:19 pm Published by

After 14 years in prison for a crime he swears he didn’t commit, Chick returns home to find his flat-broke family under the thumb of his dangerous Uncle...

The Lyons

July 30, 2020 10:12 pm Published by

In this scathingly funny look at a family in crisis, the Lyons family is falling apart just when they need to pull together. Rita Lyons, in a heroic...

The Mongoose

July 30, 2020 8:31 pm Published by

A family in Dallas may or may not have a talking mongoose named Jeff living in their walls. When Mom goes missing, Dad brings home strange men, and...

Broken Fences

July 30, 2020 8:24 pm Published by

In a neighborhood on Chicago’s deep West Side, the momentum of gentrification has taken hold and things have begun to change forever. As property taxes rise and demographics...