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| | Teen Dad by Adrienne Dawes
September 18 through October 11, 2026
Abby, a precocious emo-goth teenager, orchestrates a surprise reunion for her mother Tanya and birth father Tom, with the help of her mom's fiance/healer John. Hoping to provoke long-lasting reconciliation between her parents before her high school graduation, Abby's plans completely derail when Tom arrives with his new girlfriend Alisha. Can this family confront their past traumas, "deal and heal?" Teen Dad subverts popular regional theatre "kitchen-sink beach house dramedy" to share a heartfelt, comedic exploration of generational trauma and recovery in a mixed race Black and Latinx family.
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| | Jitney by August Wilson
Starring Brian Anthony Wilson and Passage Theatre’s Executive Artistic Director, Brishen Miller.
December 4 through December 20, 2026
Set in an unlicensed jitney station in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, August Wilson’s Jitney bears witness to a community standing its ground in the face of erasure. As redevelopment threatens to dismantle both livelihoods and legacy, a group of Black men—drivers, workers, fathers, and friends—build dignity, humor, and survival in the margins of a system never designed to serve them. It is a world Trenton knows well: where official structures fail, people create their own, and joy becomes an act of resistance rather than escape. At the center is Jim Becker, a hardened owner whose fragile order is shattered by the return of his son, Booster, newly released from prison. Long-buried truths surface, forcing a reckoning between generations as private wounds collide with public struggle. Yet Jitney ultimately insists on something radical: that joy is the answer. Not naïve or accidental, but earned through truth-telling, reconciliation, and the refusal to disappear. In a city like Trenton—where survival itself requires courage—Jitney affirms that community endures, relationships can heal, and even in uncertain times, joy remains possible. | Buy Tickets |
| | Kind of Blue by Ozzie Jones
March 11-March 27th, 2027
Ozzie Jones’s Kind of Blue is a narrative poem and play from his jazz-inspired series, The Real Book, which translates the soul of Miles Davis’s legendary 1959 album into a theatrical experience. Rather than a traditional biography, the piece personifies the music itself; the interactions between a Man and a Woman mirror the melodic dialogue between Davis’s trumpet and John Coltrane’s saxophone. Kind of Blue is the story of a relationship. From first sight meeting, falling in love, to becoming lovers, to betrayal and separation, to reconnection and forgiveness, to marriage and growing old, to watching life’s sunset together. Romance that does NOT end in tragedy. Staged and produced at Philadelphia’s Freedom Theater and dramaturg developed at the African Continuum Theater at Arena Stage in Washington DC, Kind of Blue was celebrated for its ability to "swing" with the same improvisational depth and atmospheric mood as the original recording. And for its investigation of a romantic love story without cliché or cynicism. Kind of Blue is a play for lovers. | Buy Tickets |