THEATRE PERFORMANCES

Two estranged brothers are reunited in their mother's suburban home. Overachiever Austin is housesitting and writing a screenplay when reprobate Lee arrives to rob the neighborhood and antagonize his brother. Over the course of the play, roles become blurred and the brothers' relationship becomes increasingly volatile as they confront their own failures and resentments. True West is a darkly comedic exploration of the American Dream, sibling rivalry, and the nature of identity. 

In this revamped, contemporary version of the infamous 1988 production, Carrie: The Musical follows Carrie White, a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. At school, she is bullied viciously for her differences, and at home Carrie is also lost, dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling mother. When PE teacher Miss Gardner, kind classmate Sue, and boyfriend Tommy reach out to try and help Carrie, it seems that for once, she might have a shot at being accepted. But the school’s most vicious bully has other ideas. Pushed to the brink, Carrie’s powers threaten to overwhelm her, and devour everyone around her in flame.

After the death of his father, meek Jason finds an outlet for his anxiety and an unknown talent when he joins his mother Margery's Christian Puppet Ministry at the local church in the devoutly religious, relatively quiet small town of Cypress, Texas. Jason’s complicated relationships with the town pastor, the school bully, the girl next door, and most especially—his mother are thrown into upheaval when Jason’s puppet, Tyrone, takes on a shocking and dangerously irreverent personality all its own. An irreverent, occasionally shocking, and perpetually hysterical romp to hell and back, Hand To God’s exploration of the ideas of faith, morality, and human nature will leave you sore with laughter.

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Vladimir and Estragon, two seemingly homeless men wait near a tree for someone—or something—named Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as humankind’s inexhaustible search for existential meaning and is heralded as one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.

Something wicked this way comes! The Tragedy of Macbeth tells the story of what happens when overriding ambitions clash with dark and supernatural powers. A couple's reckless gamble for ultimate power leads to a harrowing journey into darkness as Macbeth tries to maintain his ill-gotten power. "Fair is foul and foul is fair" in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy, full of deceit, intrigue, and action.