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2021-2022 Season

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY

by Larissa FastHorse

REGIONAL PREMIERE

Directed by Maggie Kettering

Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.

October 21-31, 2021

ART

by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton

TONY AWARD WINNER

Directed by Libby Ricardo

One of Marc’s best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn’t have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, allows himself to be pulled into this disagreement. Lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendships.

December 9-19, 2021

OTHER DESERT CITIES

by Jon Robin Baitz

TONY AWARD NOMINEE

Directed by Chip Egan

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history—a wound they don't want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.

January 20-30, 2022

Doubt

by John Patrick Shanley

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winner

Directed by Nakiesha Daniel

A rigidly conservative nun tasks herself with investigating allegations of misconduct between a beloved and progressive parish priest and one of the students in his care. John Patrick Shanley delves into the murky shadows of moral certainty, always balancing on the thin line between truth and consequences. Doubt is an exquisite, potent drama that will raise questions and answer none, leaving the rest of us to grapple with the discomfort of uncertainties.

March 24-27, 2022

DEATH OF A STREETCAR NAMED VIRGINIA WOOLF: A PARODY

by Tim Sniffen

REGIONAL PREMIERE

Directed by Blake White

This hilarious result of collaboration between Writers Theatre and Chicago's world-renowned comedy theatre, The Second City, asks the intriguing question: What happens when the most recognizable characters from some of the greatest American plays of the 20th century suddenly find themselves sharing the same stage?

April 21-May 1, 2022