SEASON 4
(2025-2026)
Apple Season
By E.M. Lewis
Directed by Francisco Garcia
August 23 - September 21, 2025
Lissie and her brother, Roger, fled their family farm when they were both still in high school. They've come back for their father's funeral. When Billy -- who they both knew when they were kids -- offers to buy the farm, it sets all three of them tumbling down a rabbit hole of memory and grief, as they try to let go of a tangled past that refuses to let go of them.
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From local playwright E.M. Lewis, writer of Dorothy's Dictionary.
Madonna of the Cat
By Sue Mach
Directed by Gemma Whelan
November 1 - 23, 2025
A World Premiere Production by local playwright Sue Mach.
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​Show Sponsors: Ronni Lacroute, Bill & Sharon Bourque, Charlotte Rubin, and Pat Scheans
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Using Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as its jumping off point, Sue Mach’s Madonna of the Cat is a play that explores themes of friendship, motherhood, and forgiveness, as well as empathy for a certain bear...the principal of the Bard’s most famous stage direction!
Winter Fest!
A New Holiday Play
Created by Stepan Simek & Musica Universalis
December 11 - 21, 2025
A brand new devised piece in collaboration with Stepan Simek (translator for Uncle Vanya & Chekhov! 3 Farces) and Musica Universalis - who together previously brought the beautiful Piercing The Veil to 21ten. Now bringing another Wintery Festive evening of story and song along with the brilliant actor Jonathan Cullen
You Stupid Darkness!
By Sam Steiner
Directed by Patrick Nims
February 5 - March 1, 2026
In a cramped, crumbling office, four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night on the phone telling strangers that everything is going to be okay.
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As the outside world disintegrates, they teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes. Their hopes and fears become entangled as they try, desperately, to connect with the callers and with each other.
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Sam Steiner's You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.
Athena
By Gracie Gardner
Directed by Christine Freije
March 12 - 29, 2026
In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle.
Athena and Mary Wallace are training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together. They compete against each other. They spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
From Award-winning playwright Gracie Gardner, following an acclaimed extended run in New York, comes a fierce coming of age comedy where two teenagers parry class, competition and power as they practice fencing and life. But only one will win - en garde.
Man of La Mancha
Written by Dale Wasserman
Music by Mitch Leigh
Lyrics by Joe Darion
May 7 - June 7, 2026
The heartbreaking and inspirational Tony Award-winning musical, based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, about one man’s refusal to give up his impossible dream.
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