Past Seasons

BOOM by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
January 16 - February 19, 2020
A scientist, a journalist, and a bard walk into a ... post-apocalyptic bunker, and bear the actual weight of the world and fate of humanity in their hungry hands!

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing by Finegan Kruckemeyer
June 6 - 30, 2019 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Triplet sisters are left in a forest by a woodcutter father and forced to find their own way in the world. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made - one sister walks one way to find purpose, one the other to find adventure, and the third stays right where she is, to create a home. Years later, having circled a globe and fought vikings, toppled lighthouses, tamed wilds and achieved greatness, the three meet again, as women. A moving and irresistibly charming modern-day fable for young and old.

WELL by Lisa Kron
January 17 - February 10, 2019 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Lisa Kron's carefully orchestrated "multicharacter exploration of issues of health and illness" (according to her grant proposal!) is disrupted when her actual mother appears on stage with her and proves to be considerably more interesting to the actors hired by Lisa than the play Lisa wrote...leading us all to contemplate in deeply felt hilarity and chaos: what brings wellness to our community, to our relationships, and to ourselves?

A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro
May 31 - June 24, 2018 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Vietnam: five nurses and a country western singer booked by an unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, during and after her tour in the war-torn jungle and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington.

The Liar by David Ives
January 11 – February 4, 2018 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre 
Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. 

Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez
June 1 - 25, 2017 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre 
To protect their daughter from the Communist regime, Sonia's parents sent her to the United States during the Cuban revolution. She never saw them again. Thirty years later and living in the Midwest, Sonia, a fiercely devoted mother of two, has created a home that embraces her own cultural traditions along with her husband's Jewish religion. However, after her son decides to join the army three months after 9/11, Sonia combats grief and terrifying feelings of abandonment through political forces that once again threaten her family.

Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
January 5 - 29, 2017 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre 
One of history's most vibrant, wittym and intriguing woen was 18th Century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet. Tonight, we witness her wrestly with the timeless question that dominated her passionate existence: love, or philosophy? Head, or heart?

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
May 26 – June 26, 2016 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
In this exuberant comedy – and original revision of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet –Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. 

The House of Blue Leaves
January 7 -31, 2016 | Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of flory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, NY where he lives with his wife, Bananas.