Lloyd Evans for Spectator | 11/10/2018
“One of the best plays I’ve ever seen:
I and You.”
Ada and the Engine
An intimate, romantic, steam-powered, math-and-music fueled story of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, Victorian computer visionaries.
ROMANTIC HISTORICAL DRAMA
Artemisia
A visceral, sexy, full force true story of a radical feminist artist that shook up Italian Baroque painting.
EDGY HISTORICAL DRAMA
Bauer
Love. Art. Defiance. The visceral and visual true story of forgotten modern artist Rudolf Bauer, struggling with his fading place in the history of art as his paintings are removed from the walls of the Guggenheim Museum.
INTENSE, INTIMATE, PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
The Catastrophist
A new play about love, loss, science, confession, devastation and virologist Nathan Wolfe, who is also the playwright’s husband.
ONE PERSON PLAY, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SCIENTIFIC, INTIMATE
Earthrise
1969. The world is counting down to Apollo 11. Three kids – all with parents working for NASA – dream themselves on the moon, and are freed of their fear of the historic mission.
FUN, FAMILY HISTORICAL STEM MUSICAL
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
A revenge comedy set in North Georgia about one woman doing whatever it takes to get out of an abusive relationship. And let the bears in. Grrr….
RAUCOUS REVENGE COMEDY
The Half-Life of Marie Curie
Revelling in the power of female friendship, Hertha Ayrton comforts and heartens her friend Marie Curie as she recovers from scandal.
INTIMATE, FEMINIST, SCIENCE DRAMA
Jeannette
A new musical from Lauren M. Gunderson and pop sensation Ari Afsar, Jeannette heralds one person’s radical voice in America’s ongoing journey toward equal rights for all.
INSPIRING FEMINIST MUSICAL
Justice
A 3-woman musical about Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
Music by Bree Lowdermilk, lyrics by Kait Kerrigan.
INSPIRING FEMINIST MUSICAL
Leap
An inventive synthesis of science, history, and magic with Isaac Newton and two young sisters at its center.
YOUTHFUL, FIERCE, SCIENCE DRAMA
Natural Shocks: A One Woman Play in a Tornado
Facing nature’s wrath, Angela asks her own version of “to be or not to be”. Part confessional, part stand up, part reckoning… All tour-de-force.
POWERFUL, SHOCKING, FUNNY SOLO PLAY
Silent Sky
The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt plays out against a landscape of fierce sisterly love, early feminism, universe-revealing science, and a time when humans were called “computers.”
SOARING, MUSIC-RICH, FEMALE-LED SCIENCE DRAMA
Toil & Trouble
This “laugh-out-loud weird” contemporary twist on Shakespeare’s Macbeth shows that hubris, greed, power, and passion still rule the world. Something wicked funny this way comes.
BLACK COMEDY
The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog!
Fly through the solar system with Dr. Wonderful and her amazing team of Newton (the dog) and Ben (the human)! Girl-detective-noir meets science-geek-chic in this super cool astronomical musical theater event. Age 6+
GIRL POWERED, STEM, FAMILY-FRIENDLY ADVENTURE
The Book of Will
A new play about the search for, the printing and the surviving of Shakespeare’s words.
GRAND, EMOTIONAL, HISTORICAL DRAMA
Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
A sweeping science romantic epic wherein Emilie must defend her life by tallying her achievements in Love and Philosophy—and searches for a formula that will convince the world of her worth.
SEXY, ETHEREAL, SCIENCE DRAMA
Georgiana and Kitty
The third in the “Miss Bennet” trilogy focusing on the power of sisters, music and true love.
ROMANTIC JANE AUSTEN HOLIDAY
The Heath
A beautiful, funny meditation on the life of the playwright’s grandfather, from Shakespeare to Bluegrass to Alzheimer’s.
VULNERABLE, HEARTBREAKING TRUE STORY WITH A BANJO
I and You
On the night before a class assignment is due, Caroline and Anthony plumb the mysteries of a Whitman poem…unaware that a deeper mystery has brought them together.
INTIMATE, YOUTHFUL, SURPRISING DRAMA
Miss Bennet
Mary, the middle sister of Jane Austen’s Bennet family, spends Christmas at Pemberly hoping for independence, intellectual rigor, and maybe even love.
CHARMING PERIOD ROMANCE
Peter Pan and Wendy
A bright, charming, feminist, anti-colonial, empowering take on Peter Pan for a new generation of theatregoers of all ages.
EXCITING RE-IMAGINING OF THE CLASSIC
The Revolutionists
A brutal comedic quartet about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
FEISTY FEMINIST COMEDY
The Taming
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Shrew, two political opposites end up in a strange hotel room with a beauty queen running the show. How will they go to defend themselves and their country? Southern Fried Politics, y’all.
POLITICAL FARCE
The Wickhams
It’s Christmas at Pemberley. Downstairs is bustling with servants preparing for the family’s holiday. But how to handle the shocking arrival of the uninvited Wickhams?
ROMANTIC HOLIDAY COMEDY
10-minute Plays
The End of the World
Three angels fight over the last patch of the universe.
Mass
A one-woman play exploring Lieserl, the lost daughter of Einstein. Using relativity, the play presents a young woman searching for her father.
DRAMA
Steel
A suicide bomber and victim meet in the eerie in-between of life and death. Is forgiveness an option or another trick?
DRAMA
Heart. Beat.
A young woman realizes her own strength to change her life while her abusive husband is in Iraq.
DRAMA
Midnight Bullfight
Five young Civil Rights freedom fighters are dropped in the middle of Tennessee after protesting in Alabama. Can they make it to sunrise, and alive? Based on the story of Rep. John Lewis.
DRAMA
Two Chairs
Following the lives (from birth to commitment) of two friends, the turns of a long love play out in this quick, funny, honest play.
COMEDY
Last Tape
A cancer patient confronts herself with the help of a tape recorder in this novel homage to Beckett.
DRAMA
Or Not
Picks up where Hamlet leaves off. Can Horatio get Hamlet’s story right? Or will the authorities paint Hamlet’s friend as a co-conspirator.
Two Pigeons Talk Politics
Pretty much exactly what the title says.