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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...

The Other Place

July 30, 2020 7:53 pm Published by

Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man...

Flower Duet

July 30, 2020 7:41 pm Published by

A careless act of infidelity sends the lives of two couples spiraling out of control. Flower Duet is a ferocious new comedy that spans 20 years of love,...

Finding Fossils

July 30, 2020 5:04 pm Published by

A father and son. A fourth of July weekend. A secret. A question to find common ground with someone you’ve known your entire life.

Lady

July 25, 2020 11:33 pm Published by

Deep in the woods of downstate Illinois, three boyhood friends come together on a hunting trip. Now middle-aged and on separate paths, they find that the common thread...

The End of the Tour

July 25, 2020 11:27 pm Published by

As former smalltime chanteuse Mae languishes in bed at a senior care facility, preparing to sing a few standards for her fellow geriatric zombies, her overworked and underappreciated...

Dirk

July 25, 2020 10:13 pm Published by

The stage has had a long tradition of great detectives. Dirk Gently does not belong to it. From the mind of Douglas Adams, who brought you THE HITCHHIKER’S...

String of Pearls

July 25, 2020 9:59 pm Published by

Four actresses play 27 roles in this funny and touching play that follows the journey of a string of pearls as it passes through the many hands and...

Shove

July 25, 2020 9:44 pm Published by

A suspected subway killer, an uneducated jury forewoman who becomes obsessed, a security guard with a penchant for bulk, and a newsstand owner who wants to be a...

The Smoke and Ice Follies

July 25, 2020 9:37 pm Published by

The Smoke and Ice Follies follows a hilariously desperate family of competitive figure skaters as they scramble to land perfect pairs partners. Tenny, the only non-skater in the...

The Pagans

July 25, 2020 9:01 pm Published by

A contemporary tale of an Irish family and the one son who “made it” in America but can’t quite free himself from the bonds of blood and home.

The Seventh Monarch

July 25, 2020 8:54 pm Published by

The story of Miriam, a troubled genius who often speaks in riddles and seeming nonsense. As Miriam’s story unfolds we are engaged in a mystery that is set...

The Lady’s Not for Burning

July 25, 2020 7:47 pm Published by

An accused witch stirs up sexual heat in a small New England town in the late 1940s. When truth collides with prejudice, deep passions erupt in this wicked...

David and Goliath in America

July 25, 2020 12:00 am Published by

David and Goliath in America is a play about William Kunstler’s reflections on his experience of the 1960s. In 1961 at 42, Jewish New York lawyer William Kunstler,...

Ballad Hunter

July 24, 2020 11:55 pm Published by

The story takes place in an isolated Appalachian mountain community at the height of the Great Depression in 1937. There is a household of three women struggling to...

Hitler’s Head

July 24, 2020 11:43 pm Published by

It’s 1945 and the Second World War has ended. Anton Muller sits in a cell somewhere in Berlin waiting for an endless stream of American interrogators. Why are...

White People

July 24, 2020 11:37 pm Published by

The play is a powerfully gripping vividly intense story blending soliloquies, as it explores the struggles in society of class, race, and the price every one of us...