June 29 – July 2
THE BYZANTINE CHORAL PROJECT
ICONS/IDOLS
Book and lyrics by Helen Banner, composed by Grace Oberhofer, directed by Colette Robert, choreographed by Erik Thurmond

ICONS/IDOLS is a choral play for over a dozen women. Mixing music, movement and text, it recovers the secret history of the Empress Irene as she fights to re-introduce religious icons into the Byzantine Empire and take power from her husband and son. MORE INFO...

July 6 – 9
UNIVERSAL BELLOWS
ARE WE HUMAN
Written by John Kaplan, directed by Margarett Perry

It’s the future. A toxic cloud from the Canadian-Balinese war covers the earth. Androids are torn apart to keep humans alive. America is not so great. Again. MORE INFO...

July 13 – 16
FOXY HENRIQUES/CIRCUIT THEATER
THE ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MUSKRAT
Written by John Kuntz, directed by Skylar Fox, created with the original company

All that our test subjects know is that they’re in America, and they have to give a presentation about muskrats if they ever want to sleep (unless they’re sleeping right now). MUSKRAT is part play, part wild collage of absurd comedy. Get ready to fall in love... muskrat love.MORE INFO...

July 20 – 23
HOOK & EYE
SHE-SHE-SHE
Conceived by Carrie Heitman, and created by writer Virginia Grise, director Elena Araoz, visual artist Susan Zeeman Rogers and the performing ensemble of Hook & Eye

A woman struggling to survive in present day New York City meets an activist living in a 1930s New Deal forest camp for jobless women. Under the canopy of nature and through the clearings in the trees, the two strangers conjure the revolutionary strength necessary to live and love in a dangerous world. Drawing on the poetry of Pauli Murray and visual imagery of Susan Zeeman Rogers, this epic poem, told in the voices of queer women across time and place, explores the complexities of gender, memory, history and love. MORE INFO...

July 27 – 30
PIEHOLE
SKI END
Created by Piehole, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad

A group of adults gets stuck in an abandoned ski shop and engages in a cosmic ritual of nostalgia, apocalyptic delusion, and ski. Inspired by real events. MORE INFO...

August 3 – 6
BENTERTAINMENT
ON A CLEAR DAY I CAN SEE TO ELBA
Written by Eliza Bent, directed by Knud Adams

Lambrusco, putanesca, Queen, and geraniums populate the ongoings in Bent’s ON A CLEAR DAY I CAN SEE TO ELBA, a two-hander that is as personal as it is poetic. Exploring the solipsism of love and the maddening aspects of intimacy, ELBA asks what is the nature of self-actualization within a couple? MORE INFO...

August 10 – 13
OUR VOICES THEATER
OUR VOICES PROJECT
Written by Charles Mee, directed by Kim Weild

What drives a boy born profoundly deaf who never learns to read, write, sign or speak, to create over 20,000 works of art? James Castle made himself into one of the most important American outsider artists. Playwright Charles Mee and Our Voices continue their collaboration in investigating the landscape of Castle’s world combining music, dance, sign language and more as they celebrate the life of this extraordinary artist. MORE INFO...