In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic play traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.

Witness the story of 12-year-old Ben Uchida, a Japanese-American boy whose life is changed forever following the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. When the U.S. government forces Japanese-American citizens into incarceration camps, Ben and his family must face difficult truths about the idea of home. One young person’s struggle to understand a society allowing mass discrimination against its citizens poses questions as urgent today as they were in the past. 

Kill Move Paradise takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Set in a netherworld prepared for its newly deceased inhabitants, we follow Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny as they try to make sense of the world they have been “untimely ripped” from and this new paradise they find themselves in. Inspired by recent events, Kill Move Paradise is an expressionistic buzz saw through the contemporary myth that “all lives matter” and a portrait of the slain, not as degenerates who deserved death, but as heroes who demand that we see them for who they are.

Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy. Among the Dead is a dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises, and finding each other through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. Mostly Jesus.

Sam, the legendary, undisputed greatest emcee in Rockford, Ill., plans to rest on his laurels all winter and, if possible, stake out an early spot to watch the Independence Day fireworks — but his closest mentees and their outsize dreams challenge him to a battle he can't win. The Wind and the Breeze explores the politics of place, the unspoken expectations of friendship and what happens when we choose to stand our ground on shifting sands.

Playwright Sheila Callaghan & director Daniella Topol’s epic exploration of their epic exploration of an element so epic it’s taken a decade to explore.

20th century African American artist “Uncle Jimmy” Clemens, who died poor and alone, has left behind an enormous body of work for which he was never recognized.  Uncle Jimmy’s paintings, sculptures and collected artifacts constitute Uncle Jimmy’s life’s work: a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn which he referred to as “The Illuminated Twain.”  Uncle Jimmy’s widow, Edna Finn, has curated and installed the definitive collection of her late husband’s work to share with the public.  And tonight her show will be visited by Uncle Jimmy’s estranged son, James.  

Written in collaboration with visual artist Wardell Milan, Master exists between the language of theater and the silence of art as it confronts the inadequacies of our American stories head-on, and imagines another kind of freedom.

Three hapless and hungry young men fumble their way through history as they take on a mission of martyrdom. Are they fighting for Serb independence or a sandwich? Patriotism or pudding? With Archduke Franz Ferdinand as their target, a depraved Captain sends Gavrilo, Nedeljko, and Trifko on a darkly comedic journey towards immortality.

Two actors, a director and a playwright — also named Saïd Sayrafiezadeh — attempt to stage a play about the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. But fear of retribution by the American government, as well as the performers’ own untruthfulness, causes the players on stage to unwittingly create an incendiary story about September 11th.