by Declan Greene

A burnt-out child star lies in an L.A. hospital after a freeway car crash. Jonathan Brandis auditions for the role of his life. Judy Garland is backstage at the Johnny Carson show. Meanwhile, a supervolcano bubbles up beneath the streets of Los Angeles.

A darkly funny fever dream, Pompeii, L.A. collages a gallery of bright young stars broken by the Hollywood machine during an American apocalypse.   

by Jordan Tannahill

1962, East Berlin. A teenage boy lies in the Death Strip with a fatal bullet wound to the pelvis after an attempt to escape to the West. For 59 minutes, his body remains where it fell – in full view of Western onlookers and Eastern guards. As he dies, Peter’s hearing intensifies and the voices of the people he loves come back to him in his final hour.

Inspired by the death of the real Peter Fechter, one of the first people killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall, Tannahill’s play is an ode to risk and love in the face of oppression.

by Wajdi Mouawad
translated by Shelley Tepperman

Julie’s grandmother has died. In the middle of the night, the moon came and stole her away.

But Julie has a plan. Julie arms herself with a backpack full of perfume bottles and barricades herself in the basement with her grandmother’s corpse. She’s baiting death, daring him to meet her face-to-face so she can punch his face in.

Over her nineteen-day vigil, young Julie revisits her grandmother’s stories of Pacamambo: the country where you become the people you love.

by Ella Hickson

Polo and Twitch are twins born with one heart between them. One can’t love, and the other can do nothing but. It’s the eve of their 25th birthday and they’re preparing to celebrate with old friends and new bedfellows. An electric modern myth of no-strings-attached gone wrong, HOT MESS stages a growing reality where sex and romance are strangers. This is not a love story. It’s a hot mess.