PAST PRODUCTIONS
Peter and
the Starcatcher
Written by rick Elice
Music by wayne barker
August 14 - september 1, 2024
Directed by Nathaniel Shaw
The hilarious Tony Award-winning play with music Peter and the Starcatcher serves as a prequel to the timeless tale of the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. This whimsical adventure delves into themes of greed and despair, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship, duty, and love, set against a backdrop of marauding pirates.
With a cast of twelve actors bringing dozens of unforgettable characters to life, Peter and the Starcatcher dazzles with boundless imagination, whisking you away to a Neverland like no other.
Buried Child
by sam shepard
july 2-21, 2024
Directed by chelsea burke
Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child explores the disintegration of the American Dream, through the eyes of a dysfunctional family in rural Illinois.
Long buried family secrets are unearthed, including a haunting mystery in the backyard.
Buried Child explores themes of decay, denial, and the inescapable grip of the past, as Shepard powerfully critiques the disillusionment with traditional values in contemporary America.
As part of our year-long celebration of Firehouse founder Carol Piersol, we honor her legacy with a new production of a landmark Firehouse project, Buried Child.
Roman à clef
World Premiere
by Chandler Hubbard
May 8- 26, 2024
Directed by Sharon Ott
In a quiet, seemingly empty theatre, six actors rehearse a new play about family, fear, and flight. Led by Jack, their visionary director, the cast finds themselves stepping beyond the boundaries of the show he meant to write. When a stranger joins the group demanding answers, the line between fiction and reality fades, twisting meaning and identity irreversibly. What begins as a play-within-a-play devolves into a play-without-a-play, until all that's left is the truth. If we can even call it that.
Roman à Clef is a product of the TNT New Play Incubator.
Memories of
Overdevelopment
World Premiere
by Caridad Svich
February 7-25, 2024
Directed by Nathaniel Shaw
Featuring Keaton Hillman and katrinah carol lewis
“Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things. Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones. This play is also a film: a staged documentary about what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up and how they left and how they survived. An enactment of seven startling, personal interviews, inspired by true stories. A rebellious look at where we’ve been and where we are right now.”
2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination
2022 Semi-Finalist National Playwrights Conference Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
Berta, Berta
Virginia Premiere
by Angelica Chéri
September 27- October 15, 2023
Directed by Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate. The play is a fictional origin story of the prison chain gang song "Berta, Berta" which originated on the Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Presented in collaboration with The Conciliation Project