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| | 5x5 Reading Series:
Fourth Planet
By Dano Madden
Monday, February 24th at 7pm
A play about the future of humanity and what scientific advancement and sacrifice looks like through a very personal lens. As Dr. Violet Garcia attempts to be chosen for the first human mission to Mars, she is forced to confront the possibility of losing her most important relationships on Earth. | Book Seats |
| | Every Brilliant Thing
By Duncan Macmillan
with Jonny Donahoe
March 4 - 21, 2020
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. A comedy about depression, and the lengths we will go to for those we love. “[A] heart-wrenching, hilarious play…One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression—and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop…There is something tough being confronted here—the guilt of not being able to make those we love happy—and it is explored with unflinching honesty.” —The Guardian (UK) | Book Seats |
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Admissions
by Joshua Harmon
Monday, March 16th at 7pm
A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy. Admissions explodes the ideals and contradictions of liberal white America.
Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. | Book Seats |
| | World Premiere
The Show on the Roof
Book by Tom Ford
Music & Lyrics by Alex Syiek
April 15 - May 9, 2020
Music and Lyrics by Alex Syiek Book by Tom Ford “Enter into this show I’ve created. It may not be real, but real’s overrated.” There’s a nightly floor show at the local drive-in… on the roof! Come on up for a journey through the turbulent times of 1955 in Boise, Idaho where no one is safe from suspicion. Join us for this world premiere musical that examines the homosexual panic that swept up the entire city. A surprising package of hilarity and heartbreak! Madcaps and mayhem! Song and dance! This world premiere is commissioned with the generous support of Raulo and Allana Frear.
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| | 5x5 Reading Series:
Do You Feel Anger?
by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Monday, April 20th at 7pm
Sofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency—and clearly, she has her work cut out for her. These employees can barely identify what an emotion is, much less practice deep, radical compassion for others. And while they painstakingly stumble towards enlightenment, someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen. | Book Seats |
| | Children's Reading Series:
The Last of the Dragons
By Kristin Walter
Sunday, April 26th at 2pm | Book Seats |
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Silent Sky
By Lauren Gunderson
Monday, May 4th at 7pm
The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them.
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. | Book Seats |