Company Name
Everyman Theatre
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2019-2020 Season List
PROOF
By David Auburn
Directed by Paige Hernandez
September 3, 2019 - October 6, 2019
Catherine has inherited her late father’s house, hundreds of his notebooks, and his mathematical genius. Terrified she has also inherited his psychosis, she allows one of his devout students to comb through the writings. When he discovers a revolutionary proof in one of the notebooks, Catherine must face new questions from her past and risk, for the first time, revealing who she truly is to the world and herself. After her breakout role as Catherine in 2003, Everyman Resident Company member Megan Anderson returns to play Catherine’s older sister Claire in this “wonderfully funny... ambitiously constructed” (Variety) Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning modern classic.
AUGUST WILSON'S RADIO GOLF
By August Wilson
Directed by Carl Cofield
October 15, 2019 - November 17, 2019
Successful real estate developer Harmond Wilks is on a mission to become Pittsburgh’s first black mayor by doing whatever it takes to transform his childhood neighborhood from blighted to bustling. But when he learns the truth about his family’s legacy, he is forced to decide whether he will finish what he started or fight to preserve his community’s history. This fast-paced, crackling conclusion to August Wilson’s unparalleled 10-play The American Century Cycle examining the African-American experience in the 20th century is “surprising, suspenseful and crowd-pleasing” (The New York Times), and draws striking parallels to the issues we still face today.
AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Adapted By Ken Ludwig
Directed by Vincent M. Lancisi
December 3, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Board the exotic Orient Express as it takes off into the opulence and grandeur of the 1930s, with a train full of suspects and an alibi for each one. This dazzling new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s masterpiece from comedic master Ken Ludwig is filled with twists, turns, and larger-than-life characters. Wax your mustache and bring your family as detective Hercule Poirot solves the perfect murder mystery this holiday season.
BE HERE NOW
By Deborah Zoe Laufer
Directed by Deborah Zoe Laufer
January 21, 2020 - February 16, 2020
Bari rolls her eyes at yoga classes, doesn’t see the point in dating, and just got fired from teaching nihilism in New York. Now back in her rural hometown, her despair has reached new levels—and so have her recurring headaches. Somehow they are giving her bizarre, almost religious experiences that are making her feel… happy… ecstatic… and in love? They’re also killing her. Now, Bari must decide whether it’s better to live a short, joyful life, or risk a lifetime of depression. From acclaimed playwright, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Be Here Now is a comedic look at what we’re willing to do for love and happiness and to create meaning in our lives.
QUEENS GIRL: BLACK IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS
By Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Directed by Paige Hernandez
March 3, 2020 - April 12, 2020
A world premiere production commissioned by Everyman Theatre, the third and final installment of Jennings’s award-winning Queens Girl series reunites Resident Company Members Paige Hernandez as director and Dawn Ursula as the indomitable Jacqueline Marie Butler. As the Vietnam War rages and the Kent State killings ignite college campuses across the country, Jackie arrives in Vermont to begin college. Caught between wildly divergent sets of friends—outrageously wealthy “WASPS,” militant black activists and passionate theatre people—Jackie is forced to confront the space between white and black culture to find her place in the world.
BERTA, BERTA
By Angelica Chéri
Directed by Reginald L. Douglas
March 17, 2020 - April 26, 2020
Mississippi, 1920. Leroy returns to the doorstep of his long-lost lover, Berta, covered in blood after committing a shocking crime. With his freedom in the balance, the clock is ticking for him to make amends. As their quarrelsome beginning transforms into an impassioned consummation of their love, can the inevitability of his fate be averted? A hit from last season’s Contemporary American Theatre Festival, this “riveting, gut-wrenching fable“ (DC Metro Theater Arts) weaves an intimate, yet epic love story inspired by the prison work song, “Berta, Berta.”
CRY IT OUT
By Molly Smith Metzler
Directed by Vincent M. Lancisi
March 31, 2020 - May 3, 2020
2 a.m. feedings, dirty diapers, and other hazards of new motherhood are enough to give anyone sleepless nights. This no-holds-barred comedy from award-winning writer Molly Smith Metzler (Shameless, Orange is the New Black) holds both a microscope and a megaphone to the joys and perils facing new parents today, whether you’re ivy-educated or in night-school. Join Jessie and Lina in their Long Island backyards where the wildly different, but equally difficult parenting decisions facing each mother—and the neighbors in the mansion up on the cliff—are “worth your attention, whether you are a member of the mommy brigade or not” (Broadway World).
AWAKE AND SING!
By Clifford Odets
Directed by Noah Himmelstein
May 26, 2020 - June 28, 2020
In a crowded Bronx apartment, three generations of the working-class Berger family struggle against the odds during the Great Depression to make ends meet while keeping their dreams for tomorrow alive. Gritty, funny, and full of soul, Awake and Sing!—originally performed by the renowned Group Theatre—is considered Clifford Odets’s finest work. It beautifully captures the ambitions and heartaches of a Jewish immigrant family who must weigh the costs of holding onto an enduring belief in the American dream. Almost a century after it was written, it remains profoundly relevant.
Additional Programming
The 2019-2020 Salon Series features staged readings of four new works written by emerging female playwrights, directed by female members of the Everyman Resident Company. These Monday evening performances cost $20 and include a cocktail hour for mingling and conversation.
THE NICETIES
By Eleanor Burgess
Directed by Megan Anderson
September 9, 2019
When Zoe, a black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution, a polite clash in perspectives explodes in this “bristling and proactive debate play about race and privilege in the United States.-” The New York Times.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
By Nia Vardalos
Directed by Deborah Hazlett
October 7th, 2019
A richly funny, uniquely uplifting new play from actor and author, Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) based on Cheryl Strayed's book of the same title. Thousands of people have turned to Sugar, an anonymous online advice columnist. At first unsure of herself, Sugar finds a way to weave her own life experiences with the deep yearning and real problems of her readers helping others navigate love and loss.
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
By Inda Craig-Galván
Directed by Dawn Ursula
October 28th, 2019
When Sabrina Jackson's son is the victim of a police shooting, she retreats inward in this powerful and fantastical new play from Inda Craig-Galvan. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter Movement, Sabrina finds herself living out her son's comic book superhero fantasies. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?
ALABASTER
By Audrey Cefaly
Directed by Deborah Hazlett
December 9th, 2019
A noted photographer sets out to explore the topography of “scars.” Her journey lands her in the mysterious realm of an undiscovered folk artist hiding away on a small farm in North Alabama with her two goats. This intimate and funny portrait explores the meaning and purpose of art and the struggle of the lost and tortured souls that seek to create it.
