LubDub Theatre Co • October 2024

To Tell A Story About the Earth

After a disastrous first production, a fledgling theatre company wants to call it quits. But when the local librarian requests a new performance for Earth Day, the artists have a decision to make. Part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising methods, this unique work prompts ensembles everywhere to create and share an original show about the natural world close to home.

Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden (Dramaten) • April 2024

77 Messages To The Future

When Agnes climbs down from the tree she lived in for two years, she marvels at how people live their lives down on earth. She meets Robert, a writer waiting for a hurricane that never comes. Together they wander through a changing world in search of stories about our times.

We Hear You—A Climate Archive • November 2022

We Hear You—A Climate Archive

We Hear You—A Climate Archive is a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. Ongoing performances at COP27, COP28, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Kennedy Center.

Headlong (UK Tour) / STAGES (EU Tour) • April 2022

A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Tours)

Miranda Rose Hall’s darkly funny, life-affirming show directed by Katie Mitchell is a bold experiment in eco theatre-making. Productions in 14 countries and counting. (UK Tour: Headlong/Barbican; EU Tour: Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne/STAGES)

The Kennedy Center • July 2023

Ferry Tales

Ferry Tales is a series of site-specific performances celebrating the Potomac watershed. Woven from community interviews, science, local history and legend, these performances honor the depths of DC’s waters and the many forms of life that call them home.

A.R.T./Broadway/National Tour • July 2023

1776

They knew they would make history, but not what history would make of them. A new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, reexamining this pivotal moment in American history.

The Shed (Off-Broadway) • July 2023

Help: A New Play by Claudia Rankine

Help recounts Rankine’s real-life conversations with white people in transitional spaces like airports, exploring how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions about our fragile democracy.

LubDub/Georgetown • October 2019

On the Lawn

LubDub Theatre Company’s “On The Lawn,” created in Residency with Georgetown University students, gets in the weeds to explore the roots of the American lawn.

LubDub/Target Margin • July 2023

The Uncle Geoff Magic Show

Uncle Geoff is a magician. He has six nieces and nephews. When Uncle Geoff travels home to the West Coast, he puts on a suit, sits at the kids’ table, and performs The Uncle Geoff Magic Show. This year, Uncle Geoff isn’t sure when he’ll be able to go home next, but he wants to be ready.

A.R.T. • July 2023

We Live in Cairo

This new musical follows six revolutionary students armed with laptops and cameras, guitars and spray cans as they come of age in a contemporary Cairo.

A.R.T. • July 2023

Endlings

On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos—sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that she write “authentic” stories about her identity. But what, exactly, is her identity? And how can she write about it without selling her own skin?

Organic Theatre Co • October 2016

Out of the Blue

Written by Vladimir Zaytsev, this drama follows a gay teenager’s struggle to come out to his friends and family, and to survive the series of remedies that they prescribe to “fix” him. For audiences in Russia and abroad, the play offers a rare chance to experience the stories of Russia’s LGBTQ youth.

LubDub • July 2023

The Doubtful Guest

An intimate audience of guests gathers for cocktails. A door opens. Guests are invited into a shifting world of immersive theatre in which sleight-of-hand magic, movement, and ritual move the audience closer to the performers, to one another, and to the other side. The performance draws inspiration from sources including the tradition of American spiritualism, the performers' personal histories, and the question What does it mean to be a host? Devised by the company.

A.R.T. • July 2023

O.P.C.

A new comedy from Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, O.P.C. is an exploration of consumption and politics that asks, “How are we to survive as a species if we insist on destroying the world we love?”

LubDub • July 2023

Postal Play: The Very True Story of What Has Yet to Come

Over several months, a series of mystery envelopes are delivered to your home. Each envelope is a scene or an act in which part of a story is told. The envelopes might contain a torn page from a book with an address on the back; a scone recipe from the Aran Islands; an invitation; or...

A.R.T./New Victory • July 2023

The Light Princess

A whimsical new children’s musical based on the short story by George MacDonald, of a princess who is cursed to not have any gravity. The king and queen must find the princess’ gravity before her 16th birthday, else the kingdom will fall into the hands of the witch that cursed her. This world premiere is written for all ages.