2025 Season
AT THE WEDDING
BY BRYNA TURNER
Carlo crashes her ex’s wedding with three simple goals: Don’t get drunk. Don’t make any kids cry. Don’t try to win back the bride, no matter how boring the groom is. A very, very funny play about loneliness, estrangement, and a slow-burn romance with being alive.
“‘At the Wedding’ is a comedy for anyone who has ever watched their happy ending evaporate in a cloud of smoke and lived to tell the tale.”-Theatermania
BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY BY STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS
City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis. For Pops and Junior, it seems the old days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living Between Riverside and Crazy.
“…somewhere south of cozy and north of dangerous, west of sitcom and due east of tragedy…a dizzying and exciting place to be…Blurring lines between the sacred and profane has always been a specialty of Mr. Guirgis…fresh and startling… Riverside traffics in paradoxes, which is to say it deals with the walking contradictions that are human beings…Mr. Guirgis has a splendid ear for these various languages of deception.” —The New York Times.
DEEP BLUE SOUND BY ABE KOOGLER
On an island in the Pacific Northwest, the community gathers to address the disappearance of the local orca pod. Friendships fray, tumors grow, new love blooms, wood is chopped, poems are written. The seasons change. Will the whales ever return?
"I saw DEEP BLUE SOUND at Clubbed Thumb and as has often happened to me at Summerworks, I'm wrecked that something so perfect lasts for so short a time. I want this show to run forever.” - The New Yorker's Helen Shaw
SWING STATE BY REBECCA GILMAN
A contemporary drama about a widowed woman named Peg who lives in rural Wisconsin. The play explores themes of loss, longing, and depression, and how national divisions can affect personal relationships. The play begins with Peg tending to her plants in her backyard, but her life is turned upside down when her late husband's footlocker is stolen. Peg calls the authorities, which sets off a series of events that change the lives of Peg and her neighbor Ryan.
“Swing State is perhaps the first of the great American post-COVID plays, the first work I’ve seen not just to wrestle with what happened during the pandemic but also to explore, and call out, the fundamental changes it has wrought on our collective psyche.”—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune