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Benne’s award-winning play is about Alma and her daughter, Angel, who made sixteen wishes long ago: good health, love, carne asada every day, perfect SAT scores, and a spot at UC Davis, to name a few. But now that Angel is 17, she’s got a different vision for her future than her immigrant single mom. Featuring the powerfully fresh voice of playwright Benjamin Benne, winner of the National Latine Playwriting Award, “Alma” is a poetic, funny, and timely play filled with lots of amor and a touch of symbolism. It begs the question: what does the American Dream mean today—and who does it belong to?

Inspired by Nicolai Gogol's famous short story, Wolf Mankowitz's The Bespoke Overcoat is by turns a deeply comic and unforgettably poignant reimagining of Gogol's most famous classic tale, The Overcoat. Reset by Mankowitz into the Jewish East End of London, this story about an old clerk who can't afford a new overcoat is a tale of love and resilience told with dignity and humor. Immediately hailed as one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights when the play opened in London in 1953, Mankowitz adapted it into a film that won the Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject Film in 1957. The son of a Jewish bookseller in London's East End, Mankowitz was a prolific dramatist, novelist, and screenwriter often know for depicting acts of humanity in a flawed but facinating world.

A poetic and surprising new play about the complicated, ridiculous, awe-inspiring trajectory of life. What does it mean to discover America? Anne and David are determined to find out as they embark on the perfect American road trip. They have a map, an impressive list of sights to see, and an itinerary that should put them in St. Paul just in time for the birth of their first grandchild. But soon their perfect plan is derailed by a troubling diagnosis and the beautiful impermanence of the world around them. As Anne and David veer off of their intended path, they are forced to grapple with the unavoidably messy and breathtaking journey of their lives.

Storybook Theatre's joyful Cinderella is a funny version specifically created to appeal to young children and the whole family. Complete with a loopy Fairy Godmother and puppets as the stepsisters, kids get the chance to dance with the Prince, try on the glass slipper, and join in the fun.

The Fountain Theatre presents the world premiere of Fatherland, a riveting true story. A 19-year-old faces the hardest day in his life when he testifies in federal court after informing the FBI of his father's involvement in the Jan 6 attack on Capitol. Fast-moving, powerful, and theatrical, Fatherland erupts verbatim from official court transcripts, case evidence, and public statements.

Developed in Latino Theater Company's Circle of Imaginistas playwriting group, this new play is a boldly original recovery of Juventino Rosas, one of Mexico's most significant composers - an Indigenous musician whose life story has gone untold and whose works have been attributed to Europeans. Following Rosas from his father's early death to his friendship with ragtime genius Scott Joplin. It's a mixe of music, magic, drama, passion, spirituality and dance in a celebration that explores the lives of people of color during the emerging Americas of the late 19th century and their ghostlike impact on our own lives today.

It's 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. Experience this 'profoundly beautiful' production (The New York Times) brought to vivid life by an extraordinary company of actors and musicians.

An unfairly disgraced actor makes her comeback in Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - opposite a robot that may bring about the end of the acting profession. "High Maintenance" raises questions about the relationship between art and AI, and how the status quo can turn both against each other, but really, it's just funny. After all, a robot built to act is "the product of theatre and big tech, an ego is inevitable."

A dark comedy based on the largely unknown story of young German women conscripted to taste Adolf Hitler's food for poison, this fictional account explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, and patriotism during the Third Reich. Using an anachronistic retelling of a historical footnote, Hitler's Tasters considers what girls discuss as they wait to see if they will survive another meal. Inspired by a 2014 interview with 94-year-old Margot Wolk who, for the first time, revealed her harrowing past as one of Adolf Hitler's food tasters. Margot, a German secretary at the time, was among fifteen young women selected for this "honor" at Hitler's Wolf's Lair.

From the creators of Invisible Tango, The Present, and The Future comes an entirely new theatrical event. As a Portuguese immigrant, storyteller, and sleight-of-hand magician, Helder Guimarăes arrived in America at age 29. Wide-eyed and full of ideas, he discovers a fascinating puzzle of cultural and professional challenges to solve while he tries to build a home. The Hope Theory offers a unique perspective on America through the eyes of an optimistic outsider.

One summer day, an early 20th century English undergarment mogul and his family entertain friends and unexpected visitors at their country estate. Through their lively debate and subsequent antics - including eight marriage proposals and one plane crash - the audience is treated to a satiric comedy of manners that exposes chaotic clashes of class, gender, and generations.

Poster web.jpgWhen his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself to be the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband's straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry - but their relationship fractures when Remy discovers that Pup and his friends have been bullying a gay teen at his school. Told through dueting monologue and playful dialogue, this haunting and humorous tale is about fathers and sons, ghosts and monsters, discovery and resilience while being transported to worlds beyond through the American cinema.

“Nicky and the Angels” follows three teenage theater kids - aspiring actor Nicky, pre-med-tracked singer Courtney and aspiring Broadway dancer Angie - in the spring of 1982 in the City of Angels as they are falling in love with musicals, the big bright world outside of high school, and the wrong people. What they discover about themselves and each other will change everything.

On Christmas Eve, Nora Helmer, whose world is built entirely around her domineering husband, must confront blackmail, financial ruin, the consequences of her past actions, and the unsettling truth about her life.

"Ophelia" is an existential dramedy dealing with time-shifting, finding one's destiny and the quest to fix a "broken life."

SINGULARITIES OR THE COMPUTERS OF VENUS, written and directed by Laura Stribling - The stars? The past? The future? Our own limits? Set in the 18th, 19th & 21st centuries, Singularities or the Computers of Venus, looks at the lives of women astronomers in three different time periods as they grapple with light, love and the infinite.

British playwright David Pownall imagines a chilling encounter in which composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich are subjected to the rants and bullying of Josef Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin's self-important cultural commissar. Stalin and Zhdanov, reveal anti-democratic, formalist musical tendencies, alien to the Soviet people and their artistic tastes. Music that could make a whole population sick! Should one start writing music in the style ordered by the Master, or should one continue to do as one pleases, and risk death? It is January 1948, somewhere in the Kremlin. There is a piano, vodka of course, and peanuts...

International City Theatre presents What the Constitution Means to Me, the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle award-winning play by Heidi Schreck that breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.