2017/2018 Season

• Middletown

  Middletown is a playful, poignant portrait of a town with two lives, one ordinary and visible, the other epic and mysterious. Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Will Eno meditates on life in Middletown with his signature blend of absurdity and beauty.

  

• Marjorie Prime

  It’s the not-too-distant future in the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion programmed to help her recount the distant, fading memories of her life. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the choice? 

  

• The Flick

  Three underpaid employees sweep up stale popcorn in a run-down movie house called The Flick, one of the last theaters in Massachusetts still projecting 35mm films. Annie Baker received the Pulitzer Prize for this hilarious and heartfelt cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

  Content Advisory: adult language and themes

  

• Successful Strategies

  Successful Strategies is a brand new comedy by two-time Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz. Inspired by the Marivaux farce by the same name, we follow seven characters as they hilariously dismantle their own relationships while attempting to save them.

  

• Buried Child

  Corn has begun to grow again at a remote farmhouse where the fields have been fallow for decades. A young man returns to his family home only to discover that no one recognizes him. The time has come for a twisted secret to come to light. Equal parts dark comedy, family drama, and mysterious ceremony of renewal, Buried Child is the play that vaulted Sam Shepard into the first rank of American playwrights. 

  Content Advisory: adult language and themes

  

• Hand To God

  Hand to God tells the story of Jason, a Texas teenager, and his sock puppet named Tyrone. Tyrone may look innocent, but when he infiltrates the angst-ridden church youth group and takes possession of Jason’s arm, well, all hell breaks loose. Hand to God is slightly profane and truly profound story of morality, faith, love and loss. 

  Content Advisory: adult language and themes