COMPANY CREATION FESTIVAL
The 9th annual Company Creation Festival presents four performance works by progressive theatre ensembles in repertory. Since 2010, this winter festival has led to the creation of more than 30 new theatrical works, and supported over 20 different theatre companies and artist collectives in taking risks and challenging forms. | JAN 16 – FEB 10
INCOGNITO by Nick Payne
This ingenious, time-traveling adventure weaves together three stories — a pathologist on the run with Einstein’s brain, a newlywed with memory issues, and a divorcée searching for hope in the face of cold hard facts — to get to the heart of the mind. | MAR 16 – APR 7
SAND MOON from CoLaboratory
What does it mean to love someone? What do we do when that person becomes unrecognizable? When a brother and sister start bringing their girlfriends on family vacations, a house built on secrets begins to shift. The push and pull of the ones we love gives us one of two options: resist or relent? | APR 19 – 28
SOLO CREATION FESTIVAL
The 6th annual Solo Creation Festival features a bold and diverse line-up of nine artists, presented in three distinct programs, each featuring works of various genres and forms. Since 2014, Solo Creation Festival has spotlighted the breadth of possibility in the field of solo performance. | MAY 9 – 26
MEN ON BOATS by Jacklyn Backhaus
Masculinity and manifest destiny meet their gender-flipped match in this hilarious spin on the journals of Grand Canyon explorer John Wesley Powell. The New York Times hailed the play’s “carefully exaggerated style that both teases and cozies up to the clichés of the archetypal hero adventurer.” | JUL 6 – 28
RETROCADE: LEVEL TWO from Barker Room Rep
The 2018 hit evolves with the next level of a theatrical choose-your-own-adventure featuring romance, retro video games and NBA Jam! Inspired by modern day role-playing video games, one invited guest will “play” live, taking on the role of a teenager who has recently moved to a new high school. | AUG 9 – 18
SOWN from MaiM Theatre Company
Young Black homeowners confront the strict succulents-only policy of their mostly-White, middle-class community when they plant an African violet. Sown explores the nightmare of contemporary racial oppression by placing its audience into a middle-class dreamscape-turned-battlefield. | AUG 23 – SEP 1
4.48 PSYCHOSIS by Sarah Kane
Son of Semele Ensemble presents Kane’s celebrated meditation on mental illness on the 20th anniversary of her suicide. This raw, biting and provocative work, lays bare the isolation and rage of a person struggling to go on. | OCT 12 – NOV 3
QUICK CREATION FESTIVAL
The premiere installment of our new curated festival presents a handful of short new works in two distinct programs, exploring the depths of plays up to 20 minutes in length. | DEC 12 – 15