2024/2025 SEASON
2024/2025 SEASON
The Sandwich Ministry
by Miranda Rose Hall
Directed by Katie Lindsay
June 1, 2024
A small town. A once in a century storm. Three women gather to make sandwiches for neighbors who’ve been displaced from their homes by floods. As they contend with the damage of the storm, they learn what brings them together threatens to tear them apart. Is their friendship strong enough to make it through the night?
Funding for this production is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Smile, Goddamnit, Smile (POSTPONED INDEFINITELY)
by Zola Dee
Directed by Tyrone Davis
In an absurdly entertaining world of surrealism and minstrelsy, the play follows the turbulent relationship between the personification of a Black woman’s two inner voices, African and American. Having had a nightmare about receiving upsetting news from their Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, African finds American writing a love letter to her unrequited love, America. When the two receive news about their aunt and uncle’s impending death, it becomes clear that the journey to see them at their deathbeds won’t happen without an epic fight.
Inspired by W.E.B. DuBois’ thoughts on “double consciousness,” playwright Zola Dee’s incisive and provocative new play illustrates a portal into the Black female psyche that sheds new light on race and feminism in post-2020 America.
The Winter’s Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
in modern verse translation by Tracy Young
directed by Lisa Wolpe
April 12, 2025
A tyrannical ruler, consumed by delusion, defies the law of Apollo and plunges his kingdom into darkness. Amidst the terror that ensues, a Fairy Princess emerges, wielding extraordinary power to heal the land and its people. “It is required you do awake your faith!” cries Paulina, the witch, as the dead return to life in this magical tale of hope and forgiveness.
With additional support from the Hitz Foundation and Play On Shakespeare, the David Lee Foundation, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Hide & Hide
by Roger Q. Mason
Directed by Jessica Hanna
May 15, 2025
Along the Golden Coast of California, two souls collide while chasing freedom. Set in the last days of disco, Billy, a queer rent-boy, is on the run from the Texas police; Constanza, a filipina immigrant, has a visa that’s about to expire. Together, they enter a sham marriage to achieve their own American Dream. Hide & Hide is a Homeric Odyssey that disrupts and rebuilds The American Fantasy.
Funding for this production is provided by the Los Angeles New Play Project, the Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.