SEASON 3
(2024-2025)
21ten Theatre Productions
Stupid F***ing Bird
By Aaron Posner
A Co-Production
Directed by Audrey O'Farrell and Hunter DePrice
August 10th - August 19th, 2025
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In a world grappling with climate change, global tensions, and pervasive hopelessness, artist Con dares to envision how new forms of art can instigate change. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous family estate, emotions flare, secrets surface, and loneliness seeps in.
Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird vividly captures the contemporary cultural landscape of live theatre, probing the profound question: Can art actually change our society?
52 Pick-Up
By TJ Dawe & Rita Bozi
with Annie Trevisan and Victoria Spelman
August 1st-4th and September
Same Cards. New Deal. A Love Story reshuffled.
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A deck of cards is tossed into the air, each one inscribed with the title of a scene.
Wherever they land determines how the story unfolds. 52 Pick-Up tells the messy, passionate story of a relationship—all shuffled up in a randomized order. A rollercoaster romance that changes with every performance where very show is a new an unique telling.
Dorothy's Dictionary
By E.M. Lewis
Directed by Ted Rooney
with Kerie Darner and AC Campbell
March 14th - March 30th, 2025
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A thought-provoking and wildly comic one-woman play that masterfully blends sharp character-driven humor with deep philosophical questions.​
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More than just a time capsule reflecting the social and political reverberations of past decades, Jane Wagner’s award-winning play explores a grander, more intricate narrative—one of profound interconnectedness. It asks the big question: What exactly holds our peculiar, captivating species together?
Chekhov! 3 Farces
The Bear, The Proposal,
and The Ravages of Tobacco
By Anton Chekhov
A new translation by Stepan Simek
with Sammy Rat Rios, Dylan Hankins, Michael O'Connell and Stepan Simek
February 21st - March 9th, 2025
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Think you know Chekhov? Think again.
His four major plays were built upon the robust and rough foundation of his earlier farces. The comedic style is fierce, broad and impassioned. We’re putting up three all in one evening: The Bear, The Proposal, and The Ravages of Tobacco.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
By Jane Wagner
Directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe
Starring Brooke Totmam
March 14th - March 30th, 2025
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A thought-provoking and wildly comic one-woman play that masterfully blends sharp character-driven humor with deep philosophical questions.​
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More than just a time capsule reflecting the social and political reverberations of past decades, Jane Wagner’s award-winning play explores a grander, more intricate narrative—one of profound interconnectedness. It asks the big question: What exactly holds our peculiar, captivating species together?
The Other Place
By Sharr White
Directed by Gavin Hoffman
with Diane Kondrat, Ashley Song, Todd Hermanson and Tyler Shilstone
May 2nd - May 25th, 2025​​
Juliana Smithton is a brilliant scientist with a spine of steel, whose work is on the cusp of a massive breakthrough.
While giving a talk about her research at an exclusive beach resort, she spies a woman in a yellow bikini. This chance encounter sends her on a path that may destroy her life's work, her marriage, and her own identity as her past is thrust into the present, and she begins to question reality itself.
2025 Residency Productions
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"The One"
a new work by Andrea Parson
directed by Jessica Wallenfels
July 3rd - 6th, 2025
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In order to love somebody else, you have to love yourself first. That’s what her mother once told her when she was 8 years old.
Thirty years later, Andrea is wondering, was she right? The self help gurus affirm it too! In order to find The One, you not only have to love yourself, but fall madly in love with yourself! Oh God…. In The One multidisciplinary performer Andrea Parson grapples with the notion of self love in an effort to find that special and elusive someone. A romantic partner, herself, something of the spiritual and unseen world, or maybe The One is sitting right in front of her! Or maybe it’s a mangy cat who goes by the name of Couts.
Through evocative movement, storytelling, and a clown sensibility, Andrea juxtaposes her modern day search for love with images of a 14th century medieval anchoress. Who? You know, those radical women who lived enclosed inside a small cell attached to a church as a bride of Christ. For real! Andrea invites the audience to join her as she weaves in and out of a sacred, comedic and personal reflection about love and loving.
"La Mariposa"
created by SofÃa Leonila Marks &
Isabel Strongheart McTighe
July 10th - 13th, 2025
All performances ASL Interpreted
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La Mariposa is a devised performance ritual about a girl who has forgotten her name. She is haunted by dreams of her body becoming an expansive landscape. Mariposa searches for her identity in a dream world between a girl’s bedroom and the desert where spirits dance. In these borderlands she cries to her deities for strength and wisdom: Madre Viento, her mother, sings with her; Abuelita Coyote embraces her; and Quetzal Bird teaches her to dance with freedom.
"un/seen"
created & performed by erin rachel
July 17th - 20th, 2025
ASL Interpreted on Friday, July 18th
From local writer and composer erin rachel (unbound: a bookish musical) comes un/seen, a two-part immersive storytelling and sound experience:
Part I: un/seen
un/seen is a narrative experiment, blending storytelling and cinematic soundscapes to follow three generations in the aftermath of a fictional pandemic. the story explores unseen connections and the invisible threads of kindred spirits that guide us home. It is a story about endings and beginnings — but ultimately, it is a story about life, what we (choose to) see, and the choices we might make if we knew the time we have left.
Part II: Sonic Sound Exploration Each performance is followed by a dynamic sonic exploration — an ambient and electronic soundscape designed to deepen reflection, mindfulness, and listening.
Each performance will be unique, inviting the audience to perceive the magic hidden in the everyday.
"The Rainbow Passage"
a new play by Ajai Tripathi
July 24th - 27th, 2025​
Based upon an award-winning screenplay (Geneva International Science in Fiction Award for Best Feature, 2023), The Rainbow Passage follows a recovering drug addict who travels into the memories of his catatonic twin sister, a professor of radio astronomy, in order to rally their family to free her consciousness from being trapped on the horizon line of a black hole. Featuring an all Desi cast of characters, The Rainbow Passage is both science fiction and a metaphysical family drama about meditation, addiction and letting go.