The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Young Proteus only has eyes for his hometown sweetheart, Julia. But one look at the beautiful Silvia on a trip to Milan changes everything. Now…
2018/19 Season of Plays
Children of the Sun
Maxim Gorky’s darkly comic play is set in Russia on the eve of the revolution. The country’s new middle class flounders about, philosophizing and flirting,…
Holy Ghosts
Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern Pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow, seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and…
The Busybody
First performed in 1709, this brilliantly witty and fast-paced comedy follows the characters Miranda and Isabinda as they attempt to arrange marriages to the men…
Sunday in the Park with George
Inspired by the painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s stunning musical masterpiece,…
Queen Margaret
Margaret of Anjou becomes the central character of her own story in this edit of William Shakespeare’s first tetralogy of history plays (Henry VI, Parts…
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?
A lonely roadside diner becomes the setting for a tense and gripping drama in Mark Medoff’s Obie Award-winning play. Locals and visitors have their lives…
Happy End
Set in the gritty streets of Chicago, Happy End tells the tale of an unlikely love affair between a virtuous Salvation Army worker and a…
Rough Magic
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s action-adventure-fantasy conjures a mythical, magical meta-universe in which evil sorcerer Prospero steps out of the pages of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and threatens death…
New Works Festival Year 3
The thesis plays of the graduating MFA in Dramatic Writing cohort are presented as concert readings with professional actors and directors. NWF Year Three is…