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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