The Oresteia

Translated by Gilbert Murray

Directed by Sofia Sorrentino and Yiting Sun

Performance Dates: February 6-8

Cannon Theatre

Translated by Gilbert Murray, Libation Bearers and Eumenides are the last two plays in The Oresteia Trilogy that center on Orestes’s vengeful matricide of his mother Clytemenstra, his emotional struggle, and his final trial overseen by a god which brings the cycle of vengeance to an end.

 

 

From the Other Room

By Sarah Becker

Directed by Sheridan Merrick
February 12, 6:30pm

Open Space

An intimate family drama framed by the harsh winter of 1870’s rural Maine. A crackling, tense, warning of the heritage we inherit and a child’s need to be resilient in order to survive.

This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading  Series

 

Queer Joy and the Things that Interrupt It
Led by Luke Lauchle
Directed by Sarah Pollock
February 19, 6:30
Open Space
This play is about a young queer woman who was sent to a gay conversion camp. Through the intervention of a spirit that guards queer women, she escapes, accepts herself, and goes on a journey to find her long lost best friend/crush.

This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading Series.

 

Rent

Book and  Lyrics by Jonathan Larson

Directed by Lauren Reinhard

February 27, 28 at 7pm & March 1 at 2pm and 7pm

Wright Theatre

Rent chronicles a year in the life of a group of friends living in Alphabet City, on the Lower East Side of New York City circa 1996. Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice, and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon. Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.

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Call and Response

By Sofia Sorrentino

Directed by Daniel Solomon

March 5, 6:30pm

Open Space

Three silent screen legends, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, arrive in 1917 New York for a rally. Doug and Charlie are best friends. Mary and Charlie hate each other. Doug and Mary are sleeping together. Doug’s wife has just left him. And they have just a few hours before they have to perform.

This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading  Series

 

The Ghost Dad Play

By Viktor Oler
Directed by Luke Lauchle

March 26, 6:30

Open Space

What if you had one more chance? When Elliot learns his mom is selling his childhood home, he just wants to pack. But when his ghost dad shows up, Elliot wonders if he can finally have the father he’s longed for. A comedy about family, longing, and second chances.
This piece is presented as part of the First Look Reading  Series

 

NEW WORKS

The Harlot’s House

By Gabriel Snyder
Directed by Gianna Morin

April 10-12, 7pm

Cannon Theatre

Based on the poem by Oscar Wilde of the same name. We see the physicalizing of Wilde's character through a queer lens grappling with their identities within their time and in the context of lust. What does it mean to be drawn to something that hurts us? What are the constraints of desire?

 

CLING

By Rebecca Padrick
Directed by Sheridan Merrick

April 10-12, 7pm

Cannon Theatre

Stuck in a room with no doors and no exits, Nami and Ko struggle to remember why they were brought together, and what ties them to this place. As time passes, the two realize that  it's safer to be strangers, but sometimes remembering is best.

A soft retelling of Japan's birth parents, and their inevitable uncoupling.

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How We Lived in Lockdown

Led by Yuchen Ye

Spring Rehearsal Process: March 17-April 12

Performance: Fall 2025

Cannon Theatre

In 2022, people in Shanghai experienced a severely oppressive Covid lockdown for five months. After that, thousands of people held blank sheets of papers standing all along the streets as a symbol of defiance against the strict censorship, and also fought for freedom and justice. This multi-media devised work combines documentary theatre to create cross-cultural understanding, to inspire people to fight for social justice in a chaotic world bravely. We are voiceless, but we are also powerful.

This piece is presented as the Spring 2025 Devising Residency