New Stages Festival 25/26

FEAST!

By Calamity West
Directed by Susan V. Booth

Sunday, January 11 at 2:00pm
Saturday, January 17 at 2:00pm

Carol just got fired. Her husband Michael has already paid for the company’s $12,000 holiday dinner. Instead of canceling, they decide to go through with it — to host the meal no one asked for and prove they still belong at the table. But when no guests arrive, the night spirals into a brutal showdown over money, marriage, and the cost of holding on, where the only thing left to swallow is the truth. Calamity West’s FEAST! is a darkly comic pressure cooker about privilege and power.

Tickets are FREE; reservations are required.
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TICKETS AVAILABLE STARTING 12/15

PENNIES

By Hansol Jung
Directed by Patricia McGregor

Tuesday, January 13 at 7:00pm
Friday, January 16 at 7:00pm

Amid an epidemic of heartbreak, a weary counselor with a unique gift disappears. She finds herself in a surreal motel outside time, where she must strike a cosmic bargain with Charon, the ferryman of the dead. Spanning centuries, from a call center to the River Styx to the farthest future, Hansol Jung’s Pennies is a wild, aching odyssey about grief, guilt, and the impossible task of caring too much in a world that keeps trying to harden us.

Inspired by Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl

Tickets are FREE; reservations are required.

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THIS PART OF HIS LIFE BLOOMS

By Christina Anderson
Directed by Malkia Stampley

Wednesday, January 14 at 7:00pm
Sunday, January 18 at 11:00am

Arthur Beverly James finds himself alone on the night of his retirement. After a lifetime of loving and losing the same woman, Arthur turns to the soil—to the yard he’s ignored for decades—and begins to dig. With each seed, each root, each memory, he reckons with friendship, fatherhood, and the quiet ghosts of his past. In Christina Anderson’s This Part of His Life Blooms, grief becomes growth as a man learns, at last, to tend the garden of himself.

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THE AUDIENCE UNSEEN

By Ike Holter
Directed by Gus Menary
Dramaturgy by Sarah Slight

Saturday, January 17 at 7:00pm
Sunday, January 18 at 3:00pm

In a flickering interrogation room, a federal agent pushes a grocery clerk to “see” what no one else can. But what starts as a simple questioning spirals into something more terrifying than either party could ever imagine. Ike Holter’s The Audience Unseen is a supernatural thriller, told in real-time, about the steep cost of traveling into darkness.

Tickets are FREE; reservations are required.
Limited Availability

TICKETS AVAILABLE STARTING 12/15