2023/24 Season
Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings
Artists Repertory Theatre is coming home! Each night, join us for one of the decades with ART Encore: A Festival of Staged Readings, launching at 1515 SW Morrison! The journey begins with Replay: An 80s Flashback on Tuesday 5/21, a trip through ART’s origin story with some of the founding artists. We then journey through each of the subsequent decades starting with the gripping Keely & Du (1994/95 Season) on Wednesday 5/22, Speech & Debate (2008/09 Season) on Thursday 5/23, and Skeleton Crew (2018/19 Season) on Friday 5/24. Taking us into the future is the warmly comedic Sunny’s Gifts and Things by Lava Alapai on Sunday 6/16. Each night promises surprises and celebration. Come re-experience the heart of ART in these dramatic replays—don’t miss this chance to be part of our theatrical legacy! Each performance is approximately 90 minutes long.
Encore Festival: 80s Flashback
May 21 - June 16, 2024
Artists Repertory Theatre
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 (One night only!) curated by Allen Nause, Vana O’Brien, and Susannah Mars Enjoy a sampler platter of plays from the first decade at ART. Devised by a group of Resident Artists, this montage of shows is...
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Encore Festival: Keely & Du
May 21 - June 16, 2024
Artists Repertory Theatre
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (One night only!) By Jane Martin | directed by Adriana Baer Keely, a pregnant rape victim is taken hostage by right to life activists who intend to hold her until it is too late for an...
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Encore Festival: Speech & Debate
May 21 - June 16, 2024
Artists Repertory Theatre
Thursday, May 23, 2024 (One night only!) by Stephan Karam | directed by Melory Mirashrafi A fiercely funny dark comedy that entwines three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon, in a quest to expose the truth of a sex scandal involving...
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Encore Festival: Skeleton Crew
May 21 - June 16, 2024
Artists Repertory Theatre
Friday, May 24, 2024 (One night only!) By Dominique Morisseau | directed by Vin Shambry The tiny close knit crew of a small automotive factory in Detroit is hanging on by a thread. On the brink of layoffs and closure,...
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Sunny’s Gifts and Things
May 21 - June 16, 2024
Artists Repertory Theatre
Sunday, June 16, 2024 (One night only!) By Lava Alapai Directed by Melory Mirashrafi and Luan Schooler Step back to 1982 Hawaii with Sunny’s Gifts and Things, a warmly comic prequel to Middletown Mall. As Hurricane Iwa looms, five strangers...
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