Can you crack the code? Prepare to have your brain delightfully scrambled by master magician and New York Times crossword constructor David Kwong. The Enigmatist invites you into a world of mystery, misdirection, and mental gymnastics. Following sold-out runs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and D.C., this immersive theatrical experience arrives to puzzle and delight in equal parts. The Los Angeles Times hails Kwong’s performance as one that “creates a magical sense of togetherness,” while The New York Times raves, “it’s like a spin class for the frontal lobe.” Keep your wits about you—every detail holds a clue, and nothing is quite what it seems.

The Enigmatist

Emerson Studio Theatre

Based on the real-life Scopes “Monkey” Trial, this electrifying courtroom drama pits two towering legal minds against each other in a small-town battle over science, religion, and the right to think freely. As the town becomes a stage for national attention, personal conviction clashes with public opinion in a trial that transcends its time. Inherit the Wind, the American classic by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a searing, deeply human portrait of a country still wrestling with the cost—and courage—of progress.

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Inherit the Wind

Mead Center for American Theater

This award-winning comedy drama, which inspired the Netflix hit, is a hilarious, feel-good story about a Korean family-run corner store. Mr. Kim works hard to support his wife and children with his Toronto convenience store. As he evaluates his future, he faces both a changing neighborhood landscape and the gap between his values and those of his Canadian-born children. Playwright Ins Choi, who will also star in the production as the titular character, calls Kim’s Convenience his “love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who call Canada their home.”

Kim’s Convenience

Center Theatre Group

On the Cripe Stage… 

What does it cost to stay silent? What does it take to finally speak?

From the playwright who brought you Matinicus: The Story of Abigail Burgess comes a gripping new play about memory, resilience, and the courage to resist hate. 

Based on real events in both our past and much more recent history, The Messenger brings together the voices of four women across generations, each wrestling with prejudice, survival, and the choice to raise their voices against hate. At the heart of the play is Georgia Gabor, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor whose verbatim testimony demands that history not be forgotten. Her story resonates alongside imagined women from 1969, 1993, and 2021, all based in Pasadena, as each faces their own battles with injustice.

The Messenger

Chance Theater

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Four highly-gifted teens collab and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious Berkeley girls’ music program. They improvise and crack wise atop a steadily thrumming undercurrent of disaster and emergency. This world premiere play with music comes from A.C.T.-commissioned playwright Eisa Davis, the singular writer-musician-actor whose keen ear for the language and inner lives of adolescent women brought us the Pulitzer finalist Bulrusher. At turns hilarious and melancholy, raucous and poetic, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an exquisite and achingly true story of friendship, self-discovery, and the salvation of art-making.

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||

The Strand Theater

On her wedding day, Eurydice falls to her death and awakens in the strange, surreal underworld, where she is reunited with the father she lost long ago. As memories of her life begin to fade, she is torn between two loves—the devoted husband fighting to bring her back, and the father who offers comfort in death. In Sarah Ruhl’s haunting reimagining of the Orpheus myth, love, loss, and memory intertwine in a devastating choice that will echo for eternity.

Eurydice

Western Illinois University

Winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play, The Lehman Trilogy is a gripping saga spanning over 150 years. It traces the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers, from immigrant beginnings to the heights of Wall Street power. This epic tale of ambition, innovation, and greed offers a sweeping look at the complexities of American capitalism. With three actors playing over seventy roles, it’s a theatrical tour de force that’s as thought-provoking as it is visually stunning.

The Lehman Trilogy

The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center

Drama Desk Award-winning actor Lameece Issaq teams up with two-time Obie-winning director Lee Sunday Evans on her wildly candid new play, which centers on the chaotic life of a 40-something dental lab tech who gets fired and moves into a woman's rooming house run by nuns. While there, she must come to terms with her unfulfilled path to motherhood and the untimely death of her younger sister, all while fending off her unpredictable and sometimes deranged cohabitants. A Good Day to Me Not to You is a deeply human and comedic one-woman show that “opts for all-out vulnerability, dissecting the psyche as if the stage were an operating table” (The New York Times).

A Good Day to Me Not to You

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Duke University

What a cheek! Here comes the hare hopping along, and he has nothing better to do than to hurl insults about everyone again. Mauli the mole is outraged, because this time it's his new friend, the good-natured hedgehog, who's in the crosshairs: not only is he said to have a potbelly, but also legs that are far too short and crooked. Mauli loses his temper: when the hedgehog wants to, he's as fast as lightning! So how about a race between the hare and the hedgehog? If the long-eared creature wins, he gets Mauli's beloved turnip patch. If he loses, he has to be nice to everyone from now on. The bet's on! For the vain hare and Nickel, his rabbit companion, victory seems a mere formality – however, the two haven't reckoned with the resourcefulness of Igelinchen, the hedgehog's friend…

Hare and Hedgehog

Kulturmühle Parchim

Lars Norén's 1998 play depicts a society in free fall. Director Alexander Salzberger sets his adaptation in the middle of Stockholm, in a contemporary nightmare landscape where the consequences of the dismantling of the family home are frighteningly visible. With Shebly Niavarani, Helena of Sandeberg, Bahador Foladi and Robert Fux, among others. Premiere March 6 at Klarascenen, Kulturhuset City Theatre.

Personkrets 3:1

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937, this fast-paced comedy asks: What is revolution? What does it mean to be at odds with the world? How do we fulfill our potential? And how the hell do we grow old together?

Bull in a China Shop

Second Thought Theatre

Shakespeare's merchant at a new address, where deafness is the norm.
In this free interpretation of The Merchant of Venice , Riksteatern Crea places the action on the island of Martha's Vineyard in the USA, a hundred years in the future. By this time, the digital world has collapsed and an alternative society has emerged on the island. A group of deaf idealists have settled there and built a community based on solidarity and self-sufficiency. But it is not long before power games and greed challenge the idyll.
The merchant Antonio lends money to his careless friend Bassanio to help him charm the delightful Portia. But the money actually comes from the hearing loan shark Sjölund. When Antonio cannot pay back on time, a dramatic trial begins, where lives and justice are at stake.

The Merchant of Martha's Vineyard

Årsta People's House Theatre

Falköping City Theatre

Mölnlycke Cultural Center

Lund City Theatre, Lund

Hallunda People's House, Brage

Folkan Theatre, Örnsköldsvik

In this classic comedic thriller (the longest-running mystery play by an American playwright in Broadway history), a washed-up playwright finds a chance to rise to the top once more, a shot he’d be willing to kill for.

Deathtrap

Cumberland County Playhouse

Humorous drama about a magical cat who turns a family's life upside down.
Two cat eyes suddenly shine in the dark - and nothing is ever the same again. Minou and her father have accidentally hit a cat with his fast motorbike. Minou, 8 years old, begs and pleads - and the cat is allowed to come home with them! Even though dad hates cats, especially this one.

The house is now filled with cat situations, cat-related issues and the occasional kitty-cat misunderstanding. The cat is magical, very special. And it seems to be there to support them. That's good, because even though Minou and dad want to get along so badly, they can't reach each other.

Now that the cat is there, Minou is overjoyed. They become best friends. But dad gets jealous. What does that mangy cat have that he doesn't? A power struggle of epic proportions begins. Will it end in a cat apostrophe? Or is it that everyone saves everyone?

The paw on the heart

Meeting point Water Square

Experience Nicolas Bro as Uncle Vanya in Chekhov’s classic, reimagined in contemporary rural Denmark—where change is hard to accept.

'Life in the countryside is wonderful,' or so they say—but not for Sonja and her Uncle Vanya. For 25 years, they have worked tirelessly to keep the family farm afloat, in part to support Sonja’s father, a professor living in the city. Now, having retired and fallen on hard times, he has moved to the farm with his much younger wife, Jelena—whose beauty proves a dangerous distraction for both Vanya and the doctor, Astrov.

Uncle Vanya

Royal Danish Opera

Insurance salesman Walter Neff finds his life taking an unexpected turn following a meeting with the unhappily married Phyllis. The two formulate a plan to kill her husband and make it appear to be accidental, triggering the double indemnity clause in his life insurance. Things seem to be going to plan - but Walter's sharp-eyed boss starts to suspect something, and Phyllis seems to be more deceptive than Walter had bargained for...

Double Indemnity

Wycombe Swan Theatre

About Swedish soldiers' experiences from the war in Afghanistan
They are among us, but few have heard their stories. In The Veterans we meet the Swedish soldiers who served in the war in Afghanistan.
 
It is about being able to trust each other, about volunteering and working hard. It is about the will to make a difference and about moments you never forget. But also about what we are prepared to do to be part of the group, and how we must live with our decisions – and about dealing with the great challenge afterwards – of becoming a “civilian” among others.

The Veterans

Multeum Cultural Center

Citizens' House, Theatre, Arvidsjaur

Rondo, Boden

Westerlund High School, Enköping

Auditorium Air Force Museum, Linköping

Ljustorp Community Centre, Ljustorp

Kulturum Theatre, Märsta

Little Theatre, Norrköping

Wadköping, Teaterladan, Örebro

Storsjö Theatre, Östersund

Frösåkers School, Östhammar

“It’s funny what people do and what they tell. We’re all hiding bits of ourselves. The bits we’re not proud of. I can see that now.”

It’s Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in years. Pints are poured, Motown music drifts from the tinny speakers, and karaoke starts at eight. It’s reassuringly familiar. Like nothing’s changed. 

But, haunted by grief, Franky’s family are quietly unravelling around her. Her dad is hiding himself away, and buried family secrets are leaking through the cracks in every room.

Heart Wall

Bush Theatre

War rages. Violence, revenge and passion drive the plot.

Food from 18:30, performance 19:15 - 20:15 Aeschylus' 2500-year-old classic in an interpretation that is equally faithful to the text and radical. War rages. Violence, revenge and passion drive the plot in a world that contains small islands of love. In the kingdom of Mycenae, people stand helpless in the face of horrors. When we open the gates to the ancient world, it is a wise but inconspicuous older woman who accompanies us into the warmth. She takes us through a terrible world where anger has gone out of control and power is driven by personal, bloodthirsty convictions. Blood will flow, Cast: Fia Adler Sandblad

Play events in Northhampton this week

The Enigmatist

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis

Inherit the Wind

Arena Stage

Kim’s Convenience

Center Theatre Group

The Messenger

Chance Theater

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Eurydice

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The Lehman Trilogy

Cygnet Theatre Company

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Arena Stage

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Hare and Hedgehog

Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater

Personkrets 3:1

Kulturhuset Stadsteatern

Bull in a China Shop

Second Thought Theatre

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Riksteatern

Deathtrap

Cumberland County Playhouse

The paw on the heart

Riksteatern

Uncle Vanya

Royal Danish Opera

Double Indemnity

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

The Veterans

Riksteatern

Heart Wall

Bush Theatre

Agamemnon

Riksteatern