by Josie Seid

A contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy Hecuba as told from an African American perspective, integrating modern themes and concepts. A principal, haunted by a school shooting, uncovers a series of unthinkable crimes and conspiracies…and is pushed toward taking a shocking act of revenge.

Featuring short films produced during ART’s Mercury Company including two premieres with PHAME.

by AnaSofía Villanueva

Sabor is a story of a mixed-race Latina, Clara, in search of her place within the elite culinary world and among her relationships. Warning: this production contains explicit adult content. 

Featuring short films produced during ART’s Mercury Company including two premieres with PHAME.

by Dan Kitrosser

Written by award-winning screenwriter (We the Animals) and playwright, Dan Kitrosser, Why This Night is a new play based on his screenplay, a screwball murder-mystery comedy set in a Russian shtetl in the 1880s.

Featuring short films produced during ART’s Mercury Company including two premieres with PHAME.

by Yussef El Guindi

Sakinah, an Arab American woman, undergoes a mental health evaluation to determine what led to the violent crime she committed against Emily, a rich heiress. The play explores race, class, privilege, and how those factors collide and play out in today’s culture.

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by Diana Burbano

 Beheading Columbus follows two sisters down a trail of DNA deception and makes them face race and colorism in the Latinx community and in their own family.

by Sarah B. Mantell

Fight Call is a love story told through the fight calls for every one of Shakespeare’s female death scenes. This project exposes the toll this Shakespearean trope takes both on the actors who reenact it, over and over, and on the audiences for which this violence becomes normalized. Over the course of the play, we follow the relationships between collaborators who spend their lives recreating the work of a man they will never meet.

by Derek Kolluri

by Deven Kolluri

Sodara follows two cousins, STU and SOL, who are seeing each other for the first time in years. STU, a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology, is finally beginning to gain acceptance by commodifying elements of his lost culture in his academic pursuits. SOL, a former marine struggling to find meaningful connection in civilian life, and mired in the violent trappings of PTSD, pins his hope for acceptance on his estranged best friend and cousin, STU. Both men are fighting to be accepted as Indians in America. In our fight to be accepted in a world that doesn’t seem to want us, are we destined to become the monster we seek to destroy?

Warning: this production contains strong racist language.