Welcome to the 2024/25 season! This landmark 70th season spans genre and form with productions that speak to our current moment with clarity and heft.
This season is a celebration of milestones. It is the year in which Charles Newell will transition from Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director to Senior Artistic Consultant, and the year in which Court will welcome its new Artistic Director. Furthermore, each production is imbued with a keen sense of foresight; staging these plays at this moment instigates a fascinating exploration of what it means to live in a present that was imagined by works of the past. The 2024/25 season is here and the time is now.
by Eugene Lee
Directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, East Texas Hot Links is a gripping character study, a lyrical masterpiece, and portrait of community. It is 1955 in the piney woods of East Texas and racial tensions are high, yet the Top O’ the Hill Café remains a haven. There, regulars share stories, joke, unwind, and trade friendly barbs. The café is a refuge that keeps the outside world at bay, until a mysterious omen forces the outside in.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Co-produced with TimeLine Theatre Company
Directed by Nick Bowling, TimeLine Theatre Associate Artistic Director
Marvin has left his wife, Trina, for his male lover; Trina has married Marvin’s therapist; and their son, Jason, is grappling with his parents' divorce and his looming Bar Mitzvah. Everyone’s world has been upended and now they must explore what their new lives may hold. Featuring a sung-through score and set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is a humorous and heartbreaking web of ex-spouses, co-parents, new lovers, and the lesbians next door.
by Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Associate Artistic Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.
As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred?
A New Adaptation by Mickle Maher
Based on the graphic novel by Jason Lutes
Directed by Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director Charles Newell
Berlin is an unforgettable mosaic of intersecting narratives set amidst the decline of Weimar Germany. This original commission brings Jason Lutes’s exhilarating and acclaimed graphic novel to life.
Fascism is taking hold; revolutionaries are organizing; creatives are trying to capture the ineffable nature of their changing city; and – as everything falls apart – everyone is faced with a choice: abandon Berlin or fight to survive.