Waterwell launches its 20th anniversary year with A Good Day To Me and Not to You. Writer and actor Lameece Issaq teams up with Obie-winning director Lee Sunday Evans on her play about a 40-whatever dental lab tech who gets fired and moves into St. Agnes Residence, a woman's rooming house run by nuns. She must come to terms with her unfulfilled path to motherhood and the death of her sister—all while fending off her unpredictable and sometimes deranged cohabitants. "A highly stylized approach"—David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America. Photo: Maria Baranova
The Mint Theater presents Elizabeth Baker’s charming 1917 comedy, Partnership. This refreshing take on the importance of work-life balance and a celebration of the eye-opening power of love offers surprisingly resonant insights from the suffrage era. "An exceptionally strong production"—Roma Torre, New York Stage Review. Photo: Todd Cerveris
Snatch Adams is a 6-foot tall vagina who lost her job as a clown at Planned Parenthood in 2016. After knocking on shuttered clinic doors across America, she is finally hired to host a talk show with recently Me-Too’ed comic Tainty McCracken! Along with a rotating roster of celebrity guests, Snatch and Tainty bring awareness and love to genitals and their human companions everywhere. Vulture's Sara Holdren notes "working with director Jess Barbagallo and production designer Greg Corbino, [Becca] Blackwell has envisioned a stage world as dense and meticulous in its detail as it is hilarious."
Emergence: Things Are Not As They Seem is an world-premiere performance of music, spoken word and psychedelia, led by artist Patrick Olson—backed by musicians, singers, dancers, and large-scale immersive video imagery. Combining thundering music and mind-trip monologues, Emergence explores the human experience with a riveting dive into the domain between science and art. "A genre-defying and form-breaking theater experience that keeps audiences transfixed from start to finish." —Music Observer
Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors is a comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Filled with clever wordplay and anything-goes pop culture references, it’s a 90-minute, gender-bending, quick-changing, laugh-out-loud reimagining of the gothic classic. In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who also just happens to be the most terrifying and ferocious monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula! Raven Snook of Time Out New York says: "The design is as over-the-top as the tone, especially in Samantha Shoffner’s hilarious low-tech props and Tristan Raines's to-die-for costumes." Photo: Matthew Murphy
Parity Productions, the New York based theatre company dedicated to producing new work by women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights, opens a developmental production of This Stretch of Montpelier by Kelley Nicole Girod. On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors—divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories—reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places. Photo: Allison Stock