TheatreLAB held their annual Roast and Toast last nite, where 2 theatres announced their seasons. Artistic Director Deejay Gray sums up his vision of TheatreLAB’s upcoming season: “Climate Change. #MeToo. Black Lives Matter. The 1%. Police Brutality. Gender Inequality. Political Divide. Our world is in crisis and we need to talk about Power and Privilege.”
Here’s the season:
ADMISSIONS (Joshua Harmon) Direction by Deejay Gray, 9/12-28
A new play from Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) that explores the ideals and contradictions of Liberal White America with a story about the head of the admissions department at a stodgy New England prep school who fights to diversify the student body. Winner of the 2019 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play!
URINETOWN (Music & Lyrics by Mark Hollmann, Book by Greg Kotis) Direction by Matt Polson, Choreography by Nicole Morris-Anastasi, 11/21 – 12/28
Winner of three Tony Awards, this unusual musical is set in a world where water is the most valuable commodity. It’s a satire of the capitalism, bureaucracy and musical theatre itself.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS (Lauren Gunderson) Direction by Chelsea Burke, 2/27-3/21/2020
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. To celebrate Women’s History Month.
DUTCHMAN (LeRoi Jones) Direction by Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, 5/14/6/6
When LeRoi Jones wrote this controversial play in 1964, it was a sensation that remains a ritual drama with a sociological purpose. It’s a highly symbolic version of the Adam and Eve story, wherein a naive bourgeois black man is murdered by a calculating white seductress.
PUFFS: or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic (Matt Cox) Direction by Katrinah Carol Lewis, Summer
The Puffs are a group of well-meaning, loyal outsiders who went to a certain Wizard School at the same time as the most famous one, but they’re not destined to save the world.
BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON (Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman, Book by Alex Timbers) Direction by Maggie Roop, Music Direction by John-Stuart Fauquet, Summer
This show draw parallels to today’s political/populist landscape with their rock musical about the seventh U.S. president. (Co-produced by 5th Wall Theatre)
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SPEAKING OF 5TH WALL
They produced all of last season’s shows at TheatreLAB’s The Basement and that partnership will continue this year. Artistic Director also announced their season
LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS (Tammy Ryan) Directed by Keith Fitzgerald, 10/10-11/2
A recently divorced “East Ender” from Pittsburgh, meets a former Sudanese “lost boy” working in the produce section of Whole Foods and their worlds become enmeshed.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Tennessee Williams) Directed by Morrie Piersol, 1/23-2/15/20
Williams’ semi-autobiographical play about the dominate mother, her angry son and the physically and emotionally handicapped daughter.
FUFILLMENT CENTER (Abe Koogler) Directed by Carol Piersol, 4/9-5/2
Four people’s lives revolve around a giant online retailer’s shipping center.