FINAL WEEKEND:
The Berlin Diaries by Andrea Stolowitz
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
November 25 - December 10, 2023
The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books?
After joining us with this play for the 2018 Playwright’s Forum, award-winning playwright, Andrea Stolowitz returns to The Lab for a full production! In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters and locations at the border of reality and memory and the intersection of national history and private lives.
Performances: Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 3pm
*No performance on Friday, December 1st
Individual tickets are $35 - $45
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Season Benefactors:
Marta & Jim Batmasian
Myrna Gordon Skurnick
Edith Stein
Season Producers: Kathleen Holmes & Louis Tyrrell
Individual tickets: $35-$45
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Performances: Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sundays at 3pm
The Berlin Diaries by Andrea Stolowitz
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
Executive Producers: Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Linda and Joe Satz-Trustees
Preview Performances: November 15 & 17, 2023
Run: November 18 - December 10, 2023
Directed by Matt Stabile
The great-grandfather of Oregon Book Award-winning playwright Andrea Stolowitz kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Following the complicated lure of genealogy, Stolowitz goes back to Berlin to bring the story of her unknown ancestors out of the archives into the light. The record keeps as many secrets as it shares; how do people become verschollen, lost, like library books?
After joining us with this play for the 2018 Playwright’s Forum, award-winning playwright, Andrea Stolowitz returns to The Lab for a full production! In this complex, contemporary drama about the search for home, fragmented heritage and Jewish diaspora, two performers scintillate between characters and locations at the border of reality and memory and the intersection of national history and private lives.
A Florida Premiere
Executive Producers: Diane & John Dalsimer & The David Kimmel Foundation
Previews: January 31 & February 2, 2024
Run: February 3-18, 2024
Directed by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Emery and her sister Hazel have never ventured out of their tiny town in upstate, N.Y. for all their sixty-some years. This is a-ok with Emery, who would very happily spend the rest of her days alone, in her home-made treehouse in her beloved tree “Mabel”, blogging about her experiments on the consciousness of plants. But when she becomes an unexpected internet sensation and crowds start congregating beneath Mabel, believing she’s their savior, Hazel sees an opportunity for profit and escape for the first time in her life.
This is the second in a planned trilogy beginning with 2018’s hit, Be Here Now, and was developed at The Lab over the summer of 2019. Like it’s predecessor, it received a critically acclaimed world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and now returns to Heckscher Stage - marking Ms. Laufer’s third full production at The Lab!
What’s Best for the Children by Idris Goodwin
A World Premiere
Executive Producer: Richard Carpenito
Previews: April 10 & 12, 2024
Run: April 13-28, 2024
Directed by Matt Stabile
Whit Forsyth has just been elected the first Black chairman of the State Schoolboard Committee, about to vote on critical measures on public education. But as he readies for his vote, several groups go to extreme measures to influence his decisions. A zany exploration of ideology and the American education system.
Award-winning storyteller, playwright, poet, arts champion, and Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theatre, Idris Goodwin, brings his offbeat comedy for adults - featuring rap, audience interaction, and incisive exploration of the pressures educators face from all sides - to The Lab for its world premiere production!
Readings & Development
2024 NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
Executive Producer: Our Fund Foundation
March 8-10, 2024
Theatre Lab’s annual New Play Festivals continues their tradition of providing opportunities for emerging and established playwrights to showcase their work. This event is your opportunity to get a sneak-peek at some of the shows that might end up on our stage next season! Each reading is accompanied by a post-show discussion, an opportunity to interact with the playwrights themselves, where they will discuss the process, inspiration, and plans for future development.
This year’s festival will, once again, feature a newly commissioned play from the Fair Play Initiative, a commission and development program for LGBTQ+ plays & stories, made possible by Our Fund Foundation.
March 8 @ 7:30p
March 9 @ 12p, 3:30p, & 7:30p
March 10 @ 12p & 3:30p
Final line-up to be announced in late 2023.
Tickets: $20 individual readings, $99 package
If you love new work in American theatre, now there is Theatre Lab,the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University.
Established in 2015 on the Boca Raton campus, Theatre Lab's mission is to inspire, develop, and produce new work, audiences, and artists for the American Theatre.
For tickets please visit www.fauevents.com or call 561-297-6124.
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