The Piano Lesson
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to […]
Gingham Dog
Gloria and Vincent, a once happily married couple, are suffering through the first days of their separation. Vincent has decided […]
The House of Ramon Iglesia
It’s a play about a bright, Americanized son’s tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents, a break that […]
Marisol
Marisol Perez, a young Latino woman, is a copy editor for a Manhattan publisher. Although she has elevated herself into […]
Fade
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the […]
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
Three kids — Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji — are all but abandoned on a farm in […]
In the Blood
In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her […]
Fucking A
In Fucking A, Hester Smith, the revered and reviled local abortionist, hatches a plan to buy her jailed son’s freedom—and […]
Topdog/Underdog
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks’ latest riff on the way we are […]
Intimate Apparel
The time is 1905, the place New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for […]
Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine
FABULATION is a social satire about an ambitious and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears after […]
Detroit ’67
July, 1967 Detroit. Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. […]
Scorched
Wajdi Mouawad’s writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother’s unspeakable pain. The closer […]
Split Second
This taut, incendiary drama explores the emotional and societal fallout when a respected Black police officer loses his cool and […]
No Place to be Somebody
In NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY a black bartender in New York City attempts to outwit a white mobster syndicate. […]
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train
Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At […]
A Raisin in the Sun
Set on Chicago’s South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger […]
Mud
Hopeful, hard-working Mae lives in bleak rural poverty, but she is going to school, and plans to better her life […]
A Soldier’s Play
In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company […]
American Son
An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local […]
Stick Fly
The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip […]
Dot
The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown […]
Fairview
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a […]
Nomad Hotel
Alix lives in a tiny motel room with her mother and two brothers, scrabbling to make weekly rent. Mason lives […]