2023-2024 Season
What The Constitution Means To Me
Even if you are, like me, not a big crier, the play can move you from tears to laughter at a velocity almost impossible.
– Aleksis Soloski, The Guardian
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Recommended if You Like: POTUS, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Women's rights, Educated Debate, Schoolhouse Rock
Directed by Dakota Thorn
October 5th - 14th, 2023
*LIMITED TIME ENGAGEMENT
Riffe Center Studio Two
77 South High St.
Pay What You Want available at the door
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Featuring:
Michelle Schroeder-Lowrey, John Michael Holmes, Cosette Payne, Sha-Lemar Davis
Schedule:
Thursday, October 5 @ 8pm
Friday, October 6 @ 8pm
Saturday, October 7 @ 8pm
Sunday, October 8 @2pm
Thursday, October 12 @ 8pm
Friday, October 13 @ 8pm
Saturday, October 14 @ 8pm
Talkbacks:
After Thursday and Friday performances.
Program
“What the Constitution Means to Me” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com
Ghost Quartet
As an experience of a fun, energising, unpretentiously form-breaking piece of theatre, in which one can’t help but clap along, Ghost Quartet is well worth the price
– Stanley Lawson, Varsity
A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey.
A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk.
Recommended if You Like: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, The Decemberists, M Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, Maker’s Mark
Directed by Drew Eberly
November 2nd - 18th, 2023
Riffe Center Studio One
77 South High St.
Pay What You Want available at the door
Featuring:
Alexa Clint, Katie Giffin, Amy Rittberger, Jo Shafer; with Patrick Schaefer, Henry Allen, and Elena Perantoni
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Schedule:
Thursday, November 2nd @ 8pm
Friday, November 3rd @ 8pm
Saturday, November 4th @ 8pm
Friday, November 10th @ 8pm
Saturday, November 11th @ 8pm
Sunday, November 12th @ 2pm
Thursday, November 16th @ 8pm
Friday, November 17th @ 8pm
Saturday, November 18th @ 8pm
Talkbacks:
After Thursday and Friday performances.
Program
Originally Developed and Arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold, Brittain Ashford ,Gelsey Bell, Dave Malloy), Annie Tippe, and Christopher Bowser.
GHOST QUARTET is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency
Fairview
...this play breaks the fourth wall and asks us to imagine what it would be like to experience always being looked at through another person’s lens
– Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.
Recommended if You Like: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915, Frantz Fanon, Code Switch, The Sims, Good Times
Directed by Aviva Neff
January 25th - February 10th, 2024
Riffe Center Studio One
77 S High St.
Pay What You Want available at the door
Featuring:
Lori Lindsey, John Michael Holmes, Sha-Lemar Davis, Melody Perla, Dakota Thorn, Jordan Fehr, J V. Uhlman, Acacia Leigh Duncan
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Schedule:
Thursday, January 25th @ 8pm
Friday, January 26th @ 8pm
Saturday, January 27th @ 8pm
Friday, February 2nd @ 8pm
Saturday, February 3rd @ 8pm
Sunday, February 4th @ 2pm
Thursday, February 8th @ 8pm
Friday, February 9th @ 8pm
Saturday, February 10th @ 8pm
Talkbacks:
After Thursday and Friday performances.
Program
FAIRVIEW is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (
www.dramatists.com)
You Will Get Sick
...a delightfully strange new play full of magic and wonder.
– Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
It starts with your balance, but it begins to spread, as these things often do. Your legs numb, your grip-strength weakens, your arms go rigid and hard. Before long, you’re hiring a stranger to say aloud what you can't say yourself: that you got sick. A recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, YOU WILL GET SICK is a new play in second-person about learning how to live within your body as you find your way home.
Recommended if You Like: The Grown-Up by Jordan Harrison, The Wizard of Oz, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, When it Don’t Come Easy by Patty Griffin
Directed by Eleni Papaleonardos
April 4th - 20th, 2024
Riffe Center Studio Two
77 S High St.
Pay What You Want available at the door
Featuring:
Rudy Frias, Jeanine Thompson, Cindy Tran Nguyen, Jordan Fehr, Jabari Johnson
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Schedule:
Thursday, April 4th @ 8pm
Friday, April 5th @ 8pm
Saturday, April 6th @ 8pm
Friday, April 12th @ 8pm
Saturday, April 13th @ 8pm
Sunday, April 14th @ 2pm
Thursday, April 18th @ 8pm
Friday, April 19th @ 8pm
Saturday, April 20th @ 8pm
Talkbacks:
After Thursday and Friday performances.
Program