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Deep Blue Sound

Abe Koogler

On a small island off the coast of an American city, we find a town in a crisis: The whales have gone missing. While (unofficial) Mayor Annie searches for a solution, Chris works to patch things up with Mary; John offers help to a local drifter; Leslie yearns for a faraway pen pal; Ali has come home to care for her mother, Ella, who keeps a quiet and profound secret. Local newspaper editor Joy keeps a watchful eye over all. The community bustles with comings and goings, intrigue, and hysterical small-town gossip. But where are these whales? Have they simply moved to new waters, or has our collective neglect of the Earth driven them away for good? DEEP BLUE SOUND is a beautiful meditation on our relationship to our neighbors, ourselves, and the natural world around us.

Make Believe

Bess Wohl

It’s 1980 in the Conlee family’s attic playroom, and four young siblings—Chris, Kate, Carl and Addie—recreate their everyday lives in a colorful game of make believe. Just home from school, they expect snacks, unwind from the day, and irk one another. Everything seems ordinary—until it doesn’t. The children play and play, but where are the adults? Fast-forward 30 years and the kids are back–only this time the game’s over, and a troubled past needs reconciliation. Split into two halves set three decades apart, MAKE BELIEVE features four child actors and their adult counterparts in a provocative story that bends time, space, and narrative. Formally daring and eminently moving, MAKE BELIEVE is a thoughtful exploration of childhood and its lingering impact.

Primary Trust

Eboni Booth

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, PRIMARY TRUST tells the story of a solitary man on the cusp of middle-age, caught between a forceful tug from the past and the promise of new beginnings. Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker, who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth anxiously searches for a new job, while finally beginning to face a world he’s long avoided—with transformative and often comical results. PRIMARY TRUST is a touching and inventive play about new connections, old friends, and seeing the world for the first time.

Wolf Play

Hansol Jung

This off-Broadway sensation crackles with exuberant theatricality and visual splendor. It deftly combines satire, family drama, puppetry, and slapstick humor to mine thorny questions ranging from adoption and non-traditional family-rearing to boxing and Darwinian evolution. Oh—and the protagonist is a little boy and a puppet.

Dry Land

Ruby Rae Spiegel

A tender, acerbic, and eerily prescient play. Set largely in the girl’s locker room of a Florida high school, DRY LAND follows a group of teen girls on the threshold of adulthood. They grapple with uncertainty about the future, and test the mettle of their bonds with each other as major life experience begins to take hold. An unexpected pregnancy raises the prospects of abortion.

A Case for the Existence of God

Samuel D Hunter

A soulful two-hander about male friendship and intimacy, the uncertainties of young parenthood, and the universal longing to be seen for who we really are. Written by Samuel D. Hunter.

Sanctuary City

Martyna Majok

In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines for his life. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.

The Thin Place

Lucas Hnath

Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in The Thin Place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one.

Pony

Sylvan Oswald

When Pony, a formerly incarcerated trans guy, moves to a small rural town to start a new life, he quickly becomes entangled with its isolated community. He starts to fall for a waitress named Marie who is obsessed with a recent local murder; His butch social worker doesn't get him; and a young trans guy from the city is inexplicably following him around. Pony is a seminal work of trans theater exploring questions of generational difference, class and gender on an epic scale. Director Jess Barbagallo's production crackles with pop, noir, and 90s influences.

Pass Over

Antoinette Nwandu

Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner – talking shit, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space with his own agenda and derails their plans. Emotional and lyrical, Pass Over crafts everyday profanities into poetic and humorous riffs, exposing the unquestionable human spirit of young men stuck in a cycle just looking for a way out.

A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, Pass Over is a rare piece of politically charged theater by a bold new American voice.

Body Awareness

Annie Baker

It’s Body Awareness Week on a Vermont college campus and partners Phyllis and Joyce are hosting one of the guest artists in their home: Frank, a photographer famous for his female nude portraits. His physical presence, along with his chosen subject, threatens to unravel the home order. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, while Joyce is intrigued, going so far as to contemplate posing herself. Meanwhile, Joyce’s adult son, who may or may not have autism spectrum disorder, struggles to express himself physically – with heartbreaking results.

Body Awareness is a gentle and hilarious examination of intimacy, self-expression, and the human body.

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