Throughout the year we organize free readings of new and established work that explore questions of alienation and reconciliation. After each performance, we set up a banquet table with food and wine for the sake of continuing the conversation. We are committed to hospitality as much as to excellent storytelling. Readings are suggested donation events, all donations go towards artist payments and hospitality costs. Our inaugural reading took place in April 2017.

SPRING '20

*All events postponed due to Coronavirus Pandemic. Events will be rescheduled at a later date*

Friday, March 20th — “Pass Over” by Antoinette Nwandu

Friday, April 17th — “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” by Lynn Nottage

Friday, May 15th — "Pipeline" by Dominique Morisseau

“PASS OVER”

bY ANTOINETTE NWANDU

FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH, 2020

In Pass Over, Moses and Kitch stand around on the corner - talking smack, passing the time, and hoping that today a miracle will come. A provocative mashup of Waiting for Godot and the Exodus saga, Pass Over exposes the unquestionable human spirit of young black men who dream about a promised land they've yet to find.

Directed by Kayla Stokes

“BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK”

bY LYNN NOTTAGE

FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH, 2020

In a new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. When circumstances collide and both women land roles in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy scholars will debate for years to come.

Directed by Kimille Howard 

“PIPELINE”

BY DOMINIQUE MORIsSEAU

FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2020

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? 

With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.