Elevate your theatre lineup with acclaimed productions that have captured the attention of New York Times critics! With diverse themes and captivating storytelling, each title offers something unique that will resonate with your community.
Yellow Face by
Now on Broadway through November 24
Photo by Sara Krulwich, 2024 Broadway production
The lines between truth and fiction blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwang’s unreliable memoir. Asian American playwright DHH, fresh off his Tony Award® win for M. Butterfly, leads a protest against the casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Eurasian pimp in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, condemning the practice as “yellowface.” His position soon comes back to haunt him when he mistakes a Caucasian actor, Marcus G. Dahlman, for mixed race, and casts him in the lead Asian role of his own Broadway-bound comedy, Face Value. When DHH discovers the truth of Marcus’ ethnicity, he tries to conceal his blunder to protect his reputation as an Asian American role model, by passing the actor off as a “Siberian Jew.” Meanwhile, DHH’s father, Henry Y. Hwang, an immigrant who loves the American Dream and Frank Sinatra, finds himself ensnared in the same web of late-1990’s anti-Chinese paranoia that also leads to the “Donorgate” scandal and the arrest of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. As he clings to his old multicultural rhetoric, this new racist witch hunt forces DHH to confront the complex and ever-changing role that “face” plays in American life today.
Toros by
Photo by Joan Marcus, 2023 Off-Broadway production
Toro is back in Madrid hanging out with his high school friends, Juan and Andrea (and Juan’s dying golden retriever, Tica). They spend their weekends exactly like they used to: chain-smoking pitis in Juan’s garage, listening to Juan’s latest DJ mix, and going out to pijo clubs around Madrid. But something’s not quite right. As sexual tensions emerge and old power dynamics get challenged, these third-culture-kids struggle to grow up, take responsibility, and find a version of reality to believe in.
mary gets hers by
Photo by Daniel J. Vasquez, 2023 Page One production
It’s 950 AD (give or take a few years) and eight-year-old Mary has just lost her parents to the plague. She’s rescued by a hermit, Abraham, who takes her to a monastery and vows to shield her from the world. Mary isn’t happy with her heavily restricted life, and at age twelve, she runs away to an inn in search of freedom—and love. But the innkeeper preys on her naivete, and Mary finds herself once again trapped. She asks the inn’s many guests for the love she craves until one visitor snaps her back into reality: Is this the love she’s been seeking? And if not, then how does she get it? A quirky, earthy, hilarious play about how everyone makes their own way to love and self-knowledge.
The Apiary by
Photo by Sara Krulwich, 2024 Off-Broadway production
It’s twenty-two years in the future, and honeybees are nearly extinct except for those kept alive inside of labs. Zora is overqualified for her new job at one of these labs, but she’s there because she loves bees—or what is left of them. Her stressed supervisor, Gwen, has learned to keep her head and budget down so her research doesn’t get discontinued. Zora, however, doesn’t mind spending her own time and money to try to rehabilitate the bee population. When an unfortunate incident leads to a boost in the bees’ numbers, Zora and her coworker Pilar have to decide just how far they’re willing to go to keep the population growing. An unsettling and sharp-witted cautionary tale, The Apiary warns that the key to protecting each other and the planet is right in front of us, if only we would listen.
Flex by
Photo by Sara Krulwich, 2023 Off-Broadway production
The pressure is on for the 1998 Lady Train high school basketball team—on top of a battle to bring home the championship trophy, it is also college scouting season. But the team’s performance on the court is tested as it ruptures under the weight of its own infighting, and the once-tight players begin to focus on their individual futures. What does it mean to be a Black girl on the brink of freedom and womanhood in a small town in the South? Does honoring your own wants mean sacrificing your friends, family, and team? This funny and frank play about getting a full-court press from life will have audiences cheering.
