Current Projects
MY LORD, WHAT A NIGHT!
By Deborah Brevoort
George Street Playhouse
April 28 - May 17, 2026
A Remarkable Friendship. A Night That Changed History.
Princeton, 1937. When world-famous contralto Marian Anderson is turned away from a hotel because of her race, she finds an unexpected host in Albert Einstein. What begins as a simple act of hospitality grows into a unique friendship between two brilliant minds—one that will resonate through history.
Based on true events, My Lord, What a Night offers an intimate look at the meeting of these two icons and the events that ignited Anderson’s legendary performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
THE MALLARD
by Vincent Delaney
Premiere Stages
July 17 - August 3, 2025
Freya and Gillian are teachers who have offended their school board and lost their jobs. Davis and Reagan are yard sale fanatics in search of a priceless antique duck decoy, the Horace Crandall Mallard. What follows is a fierce, funny and escalating battle over a symbol that has wildly different meanings – intersecting the couples in a journey that far surpasses the quest for treasure.
OKLAHOMA SAMOVAR
by Alice Eve Cohen
La Mama Downstairs
Dec. 5-21, 2025
In 1887, two Latvian teenagers flee the Russian Army and become the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run. A hundred years later, twenty-year-old Emily tries to decipher her late mother’s mysterious request to have her ashes spread on a stranger’s farm, in a place she has never heard of. Based on the playwright’s ancestors, the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run, the play wrestles with themes of immigration, assimilation, generational trauma, and the transcendent power of mother-daughter love. In Oklahoma Samovar, five generations put down roots and dig graves, embodying their own Jewish variations on the turbulent and mythologized American Dream. It is an utterly human and absolutely unique American story.
DISMANTLING PROSPERO
Workshop of a New Play with Dance
by Tom Rowan
Theater for the New City
August 24 - September 1, 2025
Professor Griffin Bates is a dynamic choreographer who has built a top-ranked dance department at Midwestern University. He struggled to hold the program together during the recent pandemic, teaching dance classes online. Now that the students are finally back on campus, he decides to reinvigorate the department with an especially ambitious spring production: an original ballet version of The Tempest—and audaciously casts himself as the magician Prospero. But is Griffin prepared to navigate the minefield of today’s culture wars? A provocative and timely dance/theatre piece, “Dismantling Prospero” takes an unflinching look at diversity training, Shakespeare, artistic freedom, and campus politics in our rapidly changing world.
FULL-ON CLEOPATRA
By Yussef El Guindi
Stage Center Theatre and
Silk Road Cultural Center
April 15 - 25, 2026
A traveling soothsayer, Asim, wanders into the courtyard of Cleopatra’s palace and starts chatting with the queen’s handmaiden, Charmian. He promises to read her fortune. As the unhappy future of the court begins to unfold, this soothsayer soon becomes a witness, then finally a participant in the last days of Cleopatra and Antony. A bold, darkly comedic examination of the fleeting glory of power and the intimacy of those that share it in two of history’s great partnerships.
THE KNOCK
Music by Aleksandra Vrebalov
LIbretto by Deborah Brevoort
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
November 23, 2025
An opera based on real stories from spouses of American soldiers
Named for the expression that military spouses use for notifications of death, The Knock explores the resilience, vulnerability, and sacrifice of military families. Active duty military, veterans, and their families attend free.