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The Thanksgiving Play

The Thanksgiving Play By Larissa FastHorse Moderator: Karon Samuels High school drama teacher Logan is desperate to save her career. Always ready to rock the boat, she is now facing

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Dreary & Izzy

Dreary & Izzy By Tara Beagan Moderator: Dr. Niambi Webster 1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver

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Venus

Venus By Suzan-Lori Parks Moderator: Cleavon Meabon IV Venus is a semi-biographical play about Saartjie Baartman, a member of a freak show label called the “Hottentot Venus”. Set around 1810,

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Noura

Noura by Heather Raffo Moderated by TBD Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Eight years ago, Noura and her family fled their home in Iraq. Today, she plans the

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Xtigone

Xtigone By Nambi E. Kelley Moderated by Cleavon Meabon IV Set in Present Day Chicago, Xtigone’s brothers have been killed in drive-by shootings by each other’s rival gang. Her uncle,

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SPUNK

SPUNK Staged Reading: May 22, 2024, 7pm, Next Stage, Pay-what-you-can. By George C. Wolfe  Moderated by Niambi D. Webster George C. Wolfe blends Zora Neale Hurston’s evocative prose and Wolfe’s

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The Amen Corner

The Amen Corner The Amen Corner is a three-act play by James Baldwin. It was Baldwin’s first work for the stage following the success of his novel Go Tell It

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You for Me for You

You for Me for You By Mia Chung Moderated by Eileen Kuo As they attempt to flee the Best Nation in the World, North Korean sisters Minhee and Junhee are

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The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams Moderated by Thomas King The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has

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Bulrusher

Bulrusher By Eisa Davis Moderated by Keia Johnson In 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents

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Lohrey Theatre

Seats up to 411

Both the Lohrey Theatre and the Next Stage Theatre are wheelchair accessible with a handicapped accessible restroom on the same level as the main lobby to both venues. The Lohrey Theatre also provides hearing assisted equipment to any who may require or request it, at no charge.

Lohrey Theatre Seating Chart

(Next Stage is open seating)

Next Stage

Seats up to 110

The black box Next Stage seats up to 110 and is also wheelchair accessible with state of the art equipment for sound and lighting.