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S.C.U.M.

* by JNK Enzo * * * * TUESDAY June 2, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY June 5, 2026 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY June 6, 2026 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb X, a struggling Ph.D. student is teetering on the edge of failure in their final semester after surviving an assault by one of their professors. Frustrated, they …

DOMINANT ANIMALS

* by Cris Eli Blak * * * * MONDAY June 1, 2026 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY June 3, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY June 6, 2026 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb Felix Burgos, a Puerto Rican man living in Queens, is in anger management in an attempt to rectify his wrongs and better his personal relationships, …

TWO BURNOUTS WALK INTO A BAR

* by dalorona * MONDAY June 1, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY June 5, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY June 7, 2026  @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb The story starts with a punk boy named Milo, who walks into an empty dive bar to find a woman on literal fire. He tries to help her, but he only encounters what it really …

CHOICE

* by Adam Thomas * THURSDAY May 28, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb An ex-con needs to figure out the power of choice, and quickly, as he has the police in front of him, making him choose quickly. THIS SHOW IS 12 MINUTES …

STATION FOR AGITATED HEARTS

* by Vincent Compono and Aly Schaffer * THURSDAY May 28, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb On a stormy night in 1951 Ohio, two strangers—an ex-detective and a weary singer—meet in a desolate train station. As delays stretch into …

JUMPIN’ JIM

* by Maggie Fern * THURSDAY May 28, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Jumpin' Jim follows a cash-strapped entrepreneur and father as he wrestles with mounting debt and the pressure to sell his failing business amidst the 2008 financial …

MY MAXWELL

* by Kylie Mukai * THURSDAY May 28, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb In a world where Maxwell remains present but voiceless, Maeva and her family must reconcile their grief and the weight of what is left unsaid. Join us in a communal …

GREENWARE

* by Charlotte Godat * * * * THURSDAY May 28, 2026 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb Greenware is memory play that follows Therese' journey of how suppressed trauma can affect the present. The story follows Therese and Sophie's …

THE LAST OUT GATE

* by Kevin Anthony * * * * TUESDAY May 26, 2026 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY May 27, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb Tyson Garrett’s disguise as a champion Bull Rider serves him well. Riding on the back of a bull for eight seconds proves he is a man’s man. Tyson’s family …

THE DYLAN & BELLA SHOW

* by Dylan Jernet * * * * TUESDAY May 26, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY May 29, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb In the late 1980s, as variety television fades from popularity, Dylan and Bella fight to revive the genre with a show that blends U.S. and Mexican pop …

ASSISTED LIVING

* by Harry Orenstein * * * * MONDAY May 25, 2026 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY May 27, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 30, 2026 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb A young college student befriends an older woman in the terminal cancer wing of a Montreal hospital. Over the course of the play they teach each other the …

A COTTAGE WEDDING

* by Edward "Teddy" Hall and Tim Howard * * * * MONDAY May 25, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY May 29, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY May 31, 2026 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb It is Henry and Matteo’s wedding day, but everything is going wrong. Henry’s alter ego, Anthony, emerges as the voice of his inner …

MY YEAR AS JESUS

* by Anna-Grace Cummings * THURSDAY May 21, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb The day has come. Jacob has been preparing for this moment his entire life, 13 years to be exact. To be Holy Assumption Academy’s Most Christlike.And just as …

PHANTOM RAIN

* by Gabriela Barrett * THURSDAY May 21, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Two figures appear out of a rainstorm into a singular room, almost a meeting place of some sort. One representing the heart and one representing the brain, the …

WAR AND MARRIAGE

* by Benjamin Henderson * THURSDAY May 21, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb A middle aged British couple is met with a crisis -- she hasstarted seeing another man.  Though her tryst is merely friendly and platonic, this drives the …

SONGBIRD WIVES

* by Patrick Polsin * * * * THURSDAY May 21, 2026 @ 6:15 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 2:15 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026 @ 6:00 PM * * * Blurb A dreamlike expression of love, the desire to be seen, and the conflict of still wanting to remain an individual. Freely adapted (interpolated and …

SEX ED

* by Larry Eckerle * WEDNESDAY May 20, 2026 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY May 22, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026  @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb It’s Edward Copeland’s first day back at work as a sex therapist following a complete nervous breakdown.  His analyst, Dr. Klein, thinks he’s ready to resume his …

TO MY WIFE’S NEXT LOVER

* by Evan Barnard * WEDNESDAY May 20, 2026 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY May 22, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026  @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb As his melanoma worsens, a young husband is forced to reflect on how his wife will have to live and love after his passing. He begins to document his favorite things …

7610 INGRID PLACE

* by Azariah Coppin * WEDNESDAY May 20, 2026 @ 4:00 PM FRIDAY May 22, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026  @ 1:00 PM * * * Blurb A playdate between two boys merges into a civil test involving a father and his son, showcasing what a household can establish for its younger occupants. THIS …

LILITH

* by Adina Aaron * * * * TUESDAY May 19, 2026 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY May 20, 2026 @ 6:30 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 4:30 PM * * * Blurb Before Eve, there was Lilith—the first woman who defied Adam and  abandoned Eden. Drawn from ancient Mesopotamian and Jewish myth, Lilith reimagines the …

POP

* by Kamau Nosakhere * * * * TUESDAY May 19, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY May 22, 2026 @ 4:00 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 9:00 PM * * * Blurb Inspired by seven of Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings usually given the collective title Ages of Man; in Pop, follows the relationship between Sedna and …

A BOY NAMED SALMON

* by Rachel McCauley * * * * MONDAY May 18, 2026 @ 6:15 PM FRIDAY May 22, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SUNDAY May 24, 2026 @ 3:30 PM * * * Blurb A Boy Named Salmon is a dark comedy, written to question appropriation. 15-year-old regular white boy who learns his great. Grandmother was a student at a …

A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST

* Seth Tyler Black * * * * MONDAY May 18, 2026 @ 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY May 20, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 23, 2026 @ 6:45 PM * * * Blurb A Portrait of a Young Artist is a depiction of an artist coming of age in an era where art is being censored. Reminiscent of our Trumpian era, the play is …

OH, THOSE MEMORABLE CLASSICS

* by Richard Morris * THURSDAY May 14, 2026 @ 9:00 PM SATURDAY May 16, 2026 @ 12:00 PM SUNDAY May 17, 2026 @ 8:30 PM * * * Blurb Absurd comedy comparing Homer's Illiad to Old MacDonald Had a Farm. THIS SHOW IS 1o  MINUTES LONG THIS IS A SHORT PRODUCTION THAT WILL BE PERFORMED ALONGSIDE …

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