On Stage This Season:
Alabaster
February 27-March 8, 2025
A darkly comic Southern drama about love, art, and the power of women. After a tornado barrels through town leaving nothing but death and destruction, June has isolated herself, along with her goats on what remains of her family farm. June, who suffers from agoraphobia and crippling PTSD, is covered, from head to toe with scars. She gets up every day and feeds the goats, weeds the garden, and picks up her paintbrush. Alice, a world-renowned photographer, has come to take pictures of June for a series on women with scars, but what it turns out they need from each other is transcendent.
Botticelli in the Fire
May 1-10, 2025
A hot-blooded contemporary queering of Renaissance Italy which questions how much of ourselves we are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails. Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. But while he is at work on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival.
*Michigan Premiere*