June 27 – 30
ONE-EIGHTH THEATRE
NUMBNESS: Chapter 2
An Archive Residency First Look Showing

A visceral, highly-stylized, unforgiving tragicomedy of the unfelt. An exploration of the physical and psychological state of feeling numb. What does it mean to be numb? Why are we numb? Is it possible to feel again? MORE INFO...

July 4 – 7
SAINT FORTUNE
ONE SMALL STEP
Guest Curator: Elevator Repair Service

Saint Fortune journeys through the Sixth Dimension to travel back in time to a moment of great ambition, the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing. What they find there will change the course of alternate history forever. Utilizing an immersive sound and video design, they invite us to consider multiple dimensions, while encouraging us to care for the one world we know. MORE INFO...

July 11 – 14
HANNA LEA NOVAK
THE OPERA IS ALWAYS ON THE TABLE
Guest Curator: Half Straddle

A pre-teen girl and her mother attempt to navigate a tragic loss, both together and apart. A response to Sophocles’ classic tragedy Ajax as filtered through personal family history, the play considers the mythic and mundane elements of girlhood and family. MORE INFO...

July 18 – 21
SARAH EINSPANIER / DEEPALI GUPTA / CAITLIN SULLIVAN
MADONNA col BAMBINO
Guest Curator: New Georges

Merry (with an E) is Christine's surrogate mother. Mary (with an A) is Christine's biological mother. Kristine (with a K) is Christine's biological mother's surrogate daughter. Martha is Christine's friend. Martha is having a baby. She can’t decide on a name. A play about family (in many forms) with no yelling. MORE INFO...

July 25 – 28
ANTIGRAVITY PERFORMANCE PROJECT
DEAR DIARY LOL
Guest Curator: Pig Iron Theatre Company

Born verbatim from the real-life tween-teen diaries of the show’s creators. Laugh, cringe, and cry at their most earnest desires, deepest fears, secret shames and terrible poetry, written as coming-of-age girls in the late 90s/early 2000s. MORE INFO...

August 1 – 4
ZHAILON LEVINGSTON
THE HOLE
Guest Curator: the TEAM

This riff on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof explores the relationship and personal struggles of two inmates in solitary confinement as they grapple with love, and face the choice between growing up and choosing life or succumbing to the pressures of "the hole." MORE INFO...

August 8 – 11
THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE
MADAME LYNCH
An Archive Residency First-Look Showing

A spectacle with music about Eliza Lynch, an Irish prostitute, who through fate and machination became de facto Empress of Paraguay in the mid-19th century. Later reviled for fomenting war, this show focuses on her doomed project of bringing European high culture to the inhabitants of a country that neither understood nor desired what she offered. MORE INFO...

August 15 – 18
CHUM / GRAGTMANS
LOVE
Guest Curator: Second Generation Productions

Two people meet, and the sky cracks open. LOVE is an exploration of love in its myriad of forms: the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the mysterious and all the spaces in between. With original music and spoken-word. MORE INFO...