Playwright Dominique Morisseau 2024, Signature Theater. Bad Kreyòl.

 Playwright Dominique Morisseau

2024, 

Signature Theater. Bad Kreyòl.

Playwright Amy Berryman, 2024, "Walden"

 Playwright Amy Berryman, 2024, 

"Walden" 

STELLA

I have always thought that the hope is out there, way, way out there, but now my hope is right

here. And will be out there as well. With you.

Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader, 2024, 59e59, Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library

 

Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader, 2024, 

59e59,

 Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library

Playwright SHAUN-TAYLOR-CORBETT, 2024, Distant Thunder

Playwright SHAUN-TAYLOR-CORBETT, 2024,

Distant Thunder

A.R.T./NY,

Distant Thunder

LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT and SHAUN TAYLOR-CORBETT

Music and Lyrics by SHAUN TAYLOR-CORBETT and CHRIS WISEMAN

Additional Music and Lyrics by

ROBERT LINDSEY-NASSIF and MICHAEL MORICZ

Synopsis:

Darrell Waters, a brash young attorney, returns to his childhood home in Montana to broker a deal between a large energy company and the Blackfeet Nation. In the process, he is forced to confront his reclusive father about their painful past. Through a childhood sweetheart, Dorothy Dark Eyes, he rediscovers his identity and feels his perspective shift: his clever business deal will destroy her language school, further erode Blackfeet culture and taint their land. Darrell must grapple with the paradigm of being Native American in America.

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Playwrights Skye Fort and Mike Steele 2024, Passage

 Playwrights Skye Fort and Mike Steele 2024,

Disaster Theater

By CAROL

at The Brick Theater

option 1

A bird shrieks. A sky cries. A moon farts." - Narrator

option 2

"Last time I was at the grocery store there was blood everywhere. There was a power outage in the meat case and everything was leaking all over. But everyone kept shopping. Tracking it through the aisles on the bottoms of their shoes until it looked like something from a nature show, like a lion had ripped through a herd of zebra or something. But right there in the supermarket." - Wally

option 3

"The day the scabs started we didn’t pick 

Not right away 

That started later 

Day 3 or 4 

That’s when you really can’t help it 

You can put socks on your hands 

Or oven mitts 

But you’ll take them off when 

Every cell in your fucking body 

Is screaming 

Pick it!

Pick it!"

-Grace

option4

"So

There’s this fish

And he doesn’t have a lot of time left

Because he’s made of ice cream

And we feel sort of the same way

So we decided to make a play for him

About him

About us

About how it’s all a disaster these days."

-Mike

Playwright Justin Halle, 2024 The Tank Theater,

Playwright Justin Halle, 2024

The Tank Theater

 "Nobody gives due credit to mind-altering substances. Sometimes, the mind needs a bit of altering to see things clearly. The truth of things, the world's inner workings. They used to put cocaine in toothpaste. No one likes FUN anymore. Too busy worshipping false idols. False idols, darling, tsk tsk. Why tempt fate with The Flood on its way?"  (Character: Nathan, from VILE ISLE by Justin Halle.)

Playwright Mathilde Dratwa, 2024 at WP Theater

 Playwright Mathilde Dratwa, 2024

WP Theater

Dirty Laundry

Scenic Design: Raul Abrego

option 1:

CHORUS:

There are two moments in her life

that cracked her open so wide

you could see inside her. 

The first time it happened, if you were there,

you saw the child that had been inside of her come outside of her

and you saw the placenta come out and the blood and the tissue —

human tissue —

let's not talk about tissue right now.

option 2

CHORUS:

About a month later, her son Luca asks, 

Where’s Bubba?

That’s what he called her. Bubba. 

She doesn’t want to say

in heaven

because she doesn’t believe in that

so she says,

in my heart. She’s in my heart. 

He takes it more literally than she expected,

because he knows babies come from tummies

He knows that he was in hers. That he came out of there. 

He pulls on her shirt to expose the skin and he asks, 

How did Bubba get in there?

And she doesn’t know what to say. And he asks, 

Can I give Bubba a kiss? 

and he kisses her chest. Right on her heart.