SCISSORING
By C. Quintana
April 3 – 13 @ Flixx Show Bar
When Abigail Bauer takes a job as a teacher at a conservative Catholic school, she is forced to step back into the closet against the wishes of her long-term girlfriend. As she struggles to reconcile her professional ambitions, personal relationships, religious beliefs, and internalized shame, Abigail receives guidance from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Eleanor’s devoted friend and lover, Lorena Hickok. Through it all, Abigail must find the courage to be unabashedly herself.
CHARM
By Philip Dawkins
August 14 - 24 @ NEW space TBA
When Mama Darleena Andrews – a mature, black, transgender woman—takes it upon herself to teach an etiquette class at Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community center, the idealistic teachings of Emily Post clash with the very real-life challenges of identity, poverty, and prejudice faced by her students. Inspired by the true story of Miss Gloria Allen and her work at Chicago’s Center on Halsted, CHARM asks—how do we lift each other up when the world wants to tear us down?
MOTHERS AND SONS
by Terence McNally
November 6 - 16 @ Shelterbelt Theatre
At times funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son’s partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.
United States