Lonely Planet
by Steven Dietz
November 14 - December 8, 2024
In the early 1990s, down an old city street, inside a small map store, a pile of chairs begins to form. Two best friends, Jody and Carl, manage the ever-growing mountain of chairs while taking care of each other and navigating the dark reality that looms in the outside world- a reality Carl faces in their neighborhood everyday and one Jody is afraid to see. A funny and heartwarming story of friendship, love, and survival during one of the world’s hardest moments, Lonely Planet continues to show us that “Friendship, not technology, is the only thing capable of showing us the enormity of the world” -Steven Dietz, playwright.
A Case for the Existence of God
by Samuel D. Hunter
February 20 - March 16, 2025
Ryan is undereducated, awful with money, and reeling from a painful divorce with the mother of his child, while Keith is polished, financially savvy, and the gay single caretaker of a foster daughter. When Ryan seeks Keith’s help to secure a loan and buy back twelve acres that formerly belonged to his family, the two men bond over their love of their daughters, as well as “a specific kind of sadness” that emerges in the gap between their dreams and their realities. A heartrending yet hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling apart.
the ripple the wave that carried me home
by Christina Anderson
May 1 - May 25, 2025
Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson brings us a poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness. Janice’s childhood was steeped in her parents’ activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960’s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But Janice later steps away from her parents’ politics and starts her own life and family far away—until she’s pressed into speaking at a ceremony honoring her father. the ripple, the wave that carried me home is a moving exploration of a family’s response to injustice and a daughter’s reckoning with her political inheritance.
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