2023-2024 SEASON
Everything. Everywhere. Everyone: Issues of Our Time
October 13 - 29,2023, 12 ANGRY JURORS Based on the Emmy Award-Winning television movie by Reginald Rose. Adapted for the stage by Sherman L. Sergel. Directed by Jerry Sipp
A disadvantaged teenager is accused of murdering his father and faces the death penalty. On the surface, it seems like an open and shut-case. 11 jurors vote to convict. One wants to talk. Heated discussions boil over as these 12 diverse people dig deeper into the evidence, examining the facts from different perspectives. Based on Reginald Rose’s popular Emmy Award Winning Teleplay, it is considered a modern classic that has gained even deeper insight with multicultural, gender-fluid casting.
December 9 at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and December 10 at 2:30 p.m., 2023: BLACK NATIVITY IN CONCERT 2023. NC Museum of Art - ON SALE NOW!
Our 13th annual production celebrates the season with inspirational gospel music, expressive West African and contemporary dance, vibrant costuming and dynamic performers. We are proud to continue to offer this must-see holiday event in partnership with the NC Museum of Art, making it accessible to thousands of holiday revelers in their beautiful amphitheater.
February 9-25, 2024: SKELETON CREW by Dominique Morisseau. Directed by Dr. Nadia Bodie. Umstead Park United Church of Christ
As the Great Recession hits, Detroit’s automotive stamping plant is in danger of being shut down. A tight-knit family of workers forms the remaining skeleton crew, and their lives hang in the balance. Faye, Dez, Shanita, and Reggie must reckon with their personal loyalties, their instincts for survival, and their ultimate hopes for humanity in a play that explores a dozen social justice issues at once. WINNER: Tony Award for Best Actress (Phylicia Rashad). Nominated: Tony Award Best Play.
April 12-28, 2024: 26 PEBBLES by Eric Ulloa. Directed by Brian Yandle. Umstead Park United Church of Christ
December 14, 2012. 26 innocent lives were taken at Sandy Hook Elementary. A reporter visits the town for a few days and then stays for 3 months. He asked five interview questions of each person:
What things do you love about Newtown? Traditions? Locations?
What was your day like on December 14? Take me from waking up in the morning to your head on the pillow at night.
Does this shooting shake your faith? Can (any form of) God exist when tragedies like this happen?
What are your thoughts about Adam Lanza, the shooter? Do you blame him?
What is the one word you’d want Newtown to be remembered for?
In their own words, people spoke about the importance of community, healing, resilience, perseverance, hope and outpourings of love from around the world.
Like pebbles thrown in a pond, these 26 deaths created ripples that still reverberate today.
May 2024: BLANK by Nassim Soleimanpour. Locations throughout the Triangle
No director. No rehearsal. One performer who has never read the script. A script filled with blanks. An audience that is unaware that it will be their job to fill in the blanks as they collectively create the story of an unexpecting audience member. Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour has revolutionized what theatre can be, borne out of a time when his government would not let him leave his home country.
June 7-23, 2024: CABARET Music by John Kandor, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, and Book by Joe Masteroff. Umstead Park United Church of Christ.
Directed by Nancy Rich. Music Directed by Katherine Anderson.
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s drew to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. Employing the Emcee's bawdy songs as wry commentary, this musical classic explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Sally Bowles and Berlin's natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Spawning numerous reimagined Broadway revivals,
CABARET is among the American theatre’s most enduring musicals.
