Helvetica by K. Willow Coleman
Directed by Elina de Santos
Helvetica Burke: adventurer, writer, and cynic, has spent her life packaging Death neatly between the lines of her beloved children’s books, with her trusty stuffed bear Myron by her side. When she encounters Death head-on however, she finds the storybook truths within the realities of her past, present, and future.
The Slow Drag by Carson Kreitzer
Directed by Sheila Malone
This jazz musical is based on the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton, an American jazz cornet player, bandleader, and talent broker who upon his death in 1989 was discovered to have been a transgender man. In The Slow Drag, Jazz cornet player Johnny Christmas, during the last few seconds of life, relives his career in jazz, his tempestuous common law marriage with love of his life, June Wedding, and his friendship with pianist Chester Kent a biracial man who has also lived a lie, passing as white so he can have a career without the racism and segregation faced by black artists. This is a musical packed with jazz standards about three individuals who lived and lied for their music.
We Will Rock You - the Queen Musical by Ben Elton
Directed & Choreographed by Michelle Elkin
Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,”“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and many more, WE WILL ROCK YOU follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll in a post-apocalyptic world. In an age where algorithms predict our every preference, WE WILL ROCK YOU is a musical for our time: a fist-pumping, footstomping anthem to individuality.
Twelve Ophelias - a play with broken songs by Caridad Svich
Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
In The Green by Grace McLean
As a young girl, medieval saint, healer, visionary, exorcist, and composer Hildegard von Bingen was locked in a cloister’s cell. Sequestered with Hildegard is Jutta, a woman who has spent her life secluded in an effort to recover a whole self after deepest trauma. Under Jutta’s guidance, Hildegard attempts to reassemble her own fragmented self. IN THE GREEN is a musical unlike any you’ve seen, an astonishing women broken by the world that changed history.