2021-2022 Productions
Featuring Polaroid Stories, Radium Girls, Everybody, and Into the Woods
Polaroid Stories
Written by Naomi iizuka
Directed by Lavina Jadhwani
Sept 30th – Oct 10th, 2021
In telling our stories, perhaps we all can become gods. Drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and interviews with homeless youth, Polaroid Stories uses the prestige of Greek mythology to illuminate overlooked voices in the contemporary United States. Playwright Naomi Iizuka navigates the epic and the intimate in this synthesizing play about dreams, desperation, and desire in a harsh reality. The vulnerable and marginalized characters transcend violence and loss through storytelling on an abandoned Minneapolis pier. As they share the true and devised details of their lives, the figures become as magnificent as the Greek gods themselves.
Photography by Joe Mazza
Radium Girls
By D.W. Gregory
Directed by Jonathan Wilson
Oct 28th – Nov 7th, 2021
An element as bright as the Roaring Twenties, radium can shrink tumors and illuminate clock dials. But as its industry grows, factory workers are dying from a gruesome disease linked to the nation’s latest miracle cure. Radium Girls follows Grace Fryer and other dial painters suing for recognition from the company that made them sick. In this earnest and courageous work, the road to court is long, the clock is ticking, and Grace must decide between family or justice before it’s too late. Through humor, heart, and haunting dialogue, D.W. Gregory’s historical play reflects on labor rights, the commercialization of science, and the growing fixation on wealth and success, by any means.
Photography by Joe Mazza
Everybody
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Devon de Mayo
February 17–27, 2022
Just so you know: Everybody dies at the end of the show. A groundbreaking adaptation of the medieval morality play The Summoning of Everyman, Brandon Jacob-Jenkins’s Everybody considers what we bring with us into death and what we leave behind. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, this metatheatrical piece asks the existential questions without the heaviness, making death both witty and full of life.
Photography by Joe Mazza
Into the Woods
Directed by Mark E. Lococo
Musically Directed by Michael McBride
Band Instruction by Rick Lowe
March 31 – April 10, 2022
Everyone has a wish, but at what cost? James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical features an enticing fusion of fairy tale characters who all desire what they cannot have. When a childless baker and his wife embark on a quest to lift the Witch’s curse on their family, everyone realizes that their own "happily-ever-after" may not last. With whimsy, wisdom, and tart humor, Into the Woods daringly twists your favorite stories in this evocative classic about darkness and light. Who knows what is waiting on the journey, but all must face the lessons found amongst the trees.