Ten years after the events of The Crucible, Abigail Williams is living under a new identity in Boston and haunted by her past.  When a mysterious figure appears, she confronts Salem’s dark history head on and must atone for her role in it.  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (The Mystery Plays, Good Boys and True, Glee and Big Love) makes his Powerhouse debut with this suspenseful tale of a young woman’s quest for forgiveness.

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Charles Duff, a news anchor in a mid-market backwater, has an unexpected spiritual awakening on live TV.  His prayers, and their answers, change his audience, his family, and his own life forever. Stephen Belber (Tape, Match, Dusk Rings a Bell, Fault Lines) returns to the Powerhouse alongside Peter DuBois (Sons of the Prophet, Becky Shaw, Jack Goes Boating, All New People).

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Based on the best-selling novel, this is the story of black and white America in the 1970’s, of two boys, Dylan and Mingus, of impossibly joyful afternoons of games in the street and of living in a society that you don’t belong to. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. And this is the story of what would happen if two teens obsessed with comic book heroes actually ... maybe … had superpowers.

A love triangle gone wrong, Murder Ballad centers on Sara, an Upper West Side mom who seems to have it all, but whose downtown past lingers enticingly and dangerously in front of her. Created by composer Juliana Nash, front woman for the 90’s indie rock band Talking to Animals and award-winning playwright Julia Jordan (Tatjana in Color, Sarah, Plain and Tall), this sexy, explosive, new rock musical explores the complications of love, the compromises we make, and the small betrayals that can ultimately undo us.

From Los Angeles company Teatro de Facto, this highly theatrical piece combines dramatic invention and journalistic research to tell the real-life story of Cameron Todd Willingham. Scheduled for execution in the arson death of his children, Willingham awaits his fate while a scientist recreates his crime, casting shadows over Willingham’s conviction, and his community.

Seating in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater is general admission, and there is no assigned seating. Theater opens 15 minutes before curtain. There is no late seating. The Shiva is intimate and all seat locations are excellent.

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After the mysterious death of her lover, Beartrice Albans imposes a period of mourning on her household, keeping her three daughters locked in the house to embroider linens. But when the summer heat intensifies, a handsome bachelor comes calling, and a familial secret is revealed, the foundation of Beartrice’s house is rocked to its core. Set in New Orleans in 1836, this loose adaptation of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba examines the complex system of plaçage – common-law marriages of white men and black Creole women. These free women of color became wealthy and powerful activists who fought against racial oppression pre-Civil War.

Seating in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater is general admission, and there is no assigned seating. Theater opens 15 minutes before curtain. There is no late seating. The Shiva is intimate and all seat locations are excellent.

22 SECONDS
by Michele Lowe

BIG SKY
by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

GOOD BREAD ALLEY
by April Yvette Thompson

Additional readings to be announced.

Seating in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater is general admission, and there is no assigned seating. Theater opens 15 minutes before curtain. There is no late seating. The Shiva is intimate and all seat locations are excellent.

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A SEPARATE PEACE
by Warren Leight & Todd Almond

JEROME
by Ron Lagomarsino

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN
by Nathan Englander

THE UNTITLED WORLD’S FAIR PLAY
by The Debate Society

WHILE I YET LIVE
by Billy Porter

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Friday, July 6 – Monday, July 9
JULIUS CAESAR
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Drew Cortese 

Friday, July 13 – Monday, July 16
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Brian McManamon 

Friday, July 20 – Monday, July 23
MEDEA
By Euripides
Directed by Tomi Tsunoda

Performances begin at 6:00pm at the Outdoor Amphitheater (rain location, Matthew's Mug in the College Center below The Retreat)

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A seemingly random assortment of characters awake in an art gallery and begin a journey together that will take them beyond what can be known in this life.  The performance is created in part through the language of Soundpainting, the multidisciplinary sign language used for live composition, created by composer Walter Thompson. Part of “Late Night at the Lehman Loeb”

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To be announced soon.

Burnt Umber bridges events in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Rwanda and Bosnia and examines how moral carelessness and lack of empathy provide genocidal ideology with the requisite permissions. A part of Erik Ehn’s "Soulographies: Our Genocides" a commemorative performance cycle, looking at 20th century America from the point of view of genocides in the United States (the Tulsa Race Riot), in East Africa (Rwanda and Uganda), and Central America (Guatemala and El Salvador).