“Confusion is its own master! It brings itself with it.”

Mother can’t tell her identical twins apart. But when Otto announces his brother doesn’t exist, the household descends into chaos. Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee is in rare form with his newest play, turning "the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.” - Ben Brantley, New York Times

The New York Premiere of a new play by Amy Herzog. Directed by Carolyn Cantor.

"You can look back and say we did this wrong, or we did that wrong,
but the point is it was for something."

The brilliant, promising Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her blacklisted grandfather. But when history reveals a shocking truth about the man himself, the entire family is forced to confront questions of honesty and allegiance they thought had been resolved. After the Revolution is a bold and moving portrait of an American family, thrown into an intergenerational tailspin, forced to reconcile a thorny and delicate legacy.

The World Premiere of a new play by Adam Bock. Directed by Trip Cullman.

"You gotta live a little bigger than you think you can."

When a tough-as-nails contractor finds starts to lose her grip on the world around her, the impact on her family is nothing less than seismic. In Adam Bock's spare, altogether human parable, a seemingly catastrophic loss leads to unlikely self-discoveries of the "small fires" within.

The World Premiere of a new play by Bathsheba Doran. Directed by Sam Gold.

"It's awful, isn't it? Getting to know someone."

Anna, a Texan Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of family and friends crosses distances both psychological and geographical, an unlikely new family is forged. Bathsheba Doran’s play sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world.

The World Premiere of a new play by David Greenspan. Directed by Leigh Silverman.

"Error not evil, correction not catastrophe."

A forgotten chorus boy from the theater of Ancient Greece, stuck in a lonely purgatory these past 2000 years, is sent back to earth on a mission from God. He now finds himself among a vacationing family in the Hamptons, caught off-guard by his re-discovered ability to feel love. Go Back To Where You Are is a melancholy comic romance, told with Greenspan's unique brand of theatrical wit and exquisite lyricism.

The New York Premiere of a new musical. Book by Joy Gregory. Music by Gunnar Madsen. Lyrics by Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen. Story by Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen, and John Langs. Directed by John Langs.

"Music has its moment. And usually you
don't know it until it's over "

They defined cult status — and were gone in the blink of an eye. Fremont, NH, the early '70s. A working class dad has a vision of rock n' roll destiny for his three talentless daughters, convinced they're his family's one-way ticket out of poverty and obscurity. But the girls have ideas of their own — and as their father's ambition turns to obsession, the price of familial obligation becomes all too clear. Based on a true story.

Co-produced with New York Theatre Workshop.

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