Our 69th Season:
Primary Trust • Eboni Booth • November 7 - December 28
By day Kenneth sells books, and by night he drinks mai tais at a Tiki Bar with his best friend Bert. When he is laid off, he is forced to reckon with a world he has long avoided.
Primary Trust is an achingly beautiful tale that celebrates friendship, connection and small acts of kindness that can change a person’s life, and enrich an entire community.
The Piano Lesson • August Wilson • January 9 - March 15
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell a piano that has great importance to his family, but he shares ownership with his sister Berniece, and the piano sits in her living room. Berniece has already rejected several offers, because the antique piano is covered with beautiful carvings detailing the family’s rise from slavery. Boy Willie argues that the past is past, but Berniece proves to be more formidable than he anticipated.
Eclipsed • Danai Gurira • March 27 - May 17
Five extraordinary women, who have formed an unlikely sisterhood, struggle to negotiate power, protection and peace as they try to survive. With wit, compassion, and defiance, this gripping play unearths the wreckage of war and celebrates the women who navigate and survive the most hostile of circumstances.
Spit in Your Face • Paul Heller & Albertor Lomintz • May 29 - June 28
When an idealistic American producer hires Liliana—a young Mexican American woman of Indigenous descent—to assist a fiery, notoriously radical Mexican director, he thinks he’s building cultural bridges. Instead, he sets the stage for a theatrical battleground of egos and performative righteousness between the “anti-capitalist” producer and the “anti-colonialist” director. With Liliana caught in their crossfire, she must reclaim the narrative from the men who claim to speak for her.
This bombastic new work is a hilarious look at modern politics and absurd theatre.