GALLERY
Skeleton Crew
By: Dominique Morisseau
Directed By: Raymond O. Caldwell
Shanita
At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll support herself and her unborn child, Faye has to decide how and where she'll live, and Dez has to figure out how to make his ambitious dreams a reality. Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office.
Medea
By: Euripides
Directed By: Devin Ty Franklin
Medea
In this modern translation by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish, this classic Greek tragedy follows the journey of a woman fighting to be seen by a man (and a world) that has defined her as invisible and insignificant. What will it take for this force of a woman to ascend beyond her circumstances?
Absentia (World Premiere)
By: Olivia Matthews
Directed By: Tanisha Lynn Pyron
Diana Baines
“After living in the secluded Florida woods with only her father and pet rabbit Robyn, 20-year-old Esther Harris dreams of being reunited with her long-lost mother. When her father kills her beloved Robyn, Esther breaks out of their cabin in search of her mother and old life. While they soon find each other, can the abandoned and abused Esther adjust to her new life with her mother?”
Everybody
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed By: Roberto Di Donato
Usher/God/Understanding
In this modern riff on the morality play, Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.
Hotel Berry (World Premiere)
By: Jacqueline E. Lawton
Directed By: JaMeeka D. Holloway
Ada Woodson
As the only Black business owners in the booming town of Athens, Edward and Mattie Berry have established one of the finest hotels in all of Ohio. Theodore Roosevelt decides to stay at the Berry Hotel on his whistle stop tour through Ohio. This presidential visit unleashes scandal, political upheaval, and a menu to rival that of the finest of restaurants in all of Europe!
Yerma
By: Federico García Lorca
Adapted By: Ursula Rani Sarma
Directed By: Ally Poole
Yerma u/s
A woman in a passionless marriage, who wants nothing more than to have a child. A community that measures a woman’s worth by their ability to bear children. Yerma, for anyone who has ever desperately wanted something and found that it was just beyond their reach.
Measure for Measure
By: William Shakespeare
Shakespeare & Company Intensive
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Isabella
Vienna is teeming with brothels and loose morality, but the Duke doesn't want to use his authority to clean up the city. He departs, dressed as a friar, leaving his deputy, Angelo, in charge. Angelo is at first reluctant, but he soon starts to make changes.