A celebration of new works for the american stage
JUNE 2024
Join us this summer for a series of trailblazing new plays! In addition to attending the performances, you’re also invited to hear from the playwrights about their process and share your own thoughts with the creative team—and help shape new works from the ground up.
Performances will be held at TheatreSquared, at Ovations Plus (formerly Trike Theatre) in Bentonville, and at the Medium in Springdale.
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2024 Lineup
Eugene Onegin
music, book, & lyrics by Sarah Gancher
Saturday, June 15 at 5pm (at Ovations Plus)
Saturday, June 22 at 5:30pm (at TheatreSquared)
Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher (creator of the Obie Award-winning Russian Troll Farm) is a modern bluegrass musical that is half pickin' party and half barbeque. Pushkin's novel-in-verse and Tchaikovsky's opera have been reset and given new life in 1940s rural Arkansas, when a girl who dreams of writing songs falls for a magnetic but jaded touring musician.
Have to Believe We Are Magic
by Sara Guerrero
Friday, June 14 at 7pm (at The Medium)
Sunday, June 23 at 2pm (at TheatreSquared)
What is magic? Are we magic? And if so, how do we hold it? This part-biographical-part-magic love letter to a Pocha-Chicana-Latina coming-of-age time is filled with roller-skating, family, friendships, sex, love, abortion, and self-discovery. How does one keep and find their magic? All unfolds under the shadow of "The Magic Kingdom" (or “The Tragic Kingdom”) in central Orange County, California, in the summer of 1994.
Edi Ya & Diamond’s grove
by a.k. payne
Saturday, June 15 at 2pm (at Ovations Plus)
Saturday, June 22 at 2:30pm (at TheatreSquared)
Set at the edge of an old U.S. mill town, Edi Ya & Diamond’s Grove tells a story about two Black young people working in an amusement park dripping with ghosts. Haunted by stories of the places their grandparents could not enter and memories of long summers spent riding coasters and losing childhood, Edi Ya and Diamond try to make sense of grief in this place of lost dreams.
Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem
by Jonathan Norton
Sunday, June 16 at 2pm (at The Medium)
Sunday, June 23 at 5pm (at TheatreSquared)
1943. Two young Harlemites—Little and Foxy—form a friendship over leftover fried chicken and dirty dishwater. But a long, hot summer of heartbreak, betrayal, and racial uprisings moves them closer to the men they will become and farther from each other. Commissioned by TheatreSquared.
Sherlock holmes: The timbers family file
by THE LATINX THEATRE PROJECT
Friday, June 21 at 7pm (at TheatreSquared)
LatinX Theatre Project’s newest play, Sherlock Holmes: The Timbers Family File reimagines Sherlock Holmes as a Latine/x detective living and operating within their community. Our story follows a younger version of Sherlock Holmes as they make a name for themselves as the city’s newest detective by uncovering a string of robberies that has the entire neighborhood shook and police cracking down on the homies. With the help of the community and their unlikely companion, Watson, Sherlock is determined to figure out who is behind it all, and how to stop them.
2024 Schedule
Friday, June 14 (at The Medium)
7pm. Have to Believe We Are Magic by Sara Guerrero
Saturday, June 15 (at Ovations Plus)
2pm. Edi Ya & Diamond’s Grove by a.k. payne
5pm. Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher
Sunday, June 16 (at The Medium)
2pm. Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem by Jonathan Norton
Thursday, June 20 (at Theatresquared)
7pm. Songs for Drunk Cowboys Who May Also Be Women: An Anti-Musical (For Fools Only) by Sarah Loucks (APPRENTICE SHOWCASE)
Friday, June 21 (at Theatresquared)
7pm. Sherlock Holmes: The Timbers Family File by the LatinX Theatre Project
Saturday, June 22 (at Theatresquared)
11:00pm. Playwrights Panel
12:30pm. Young Playwrights Showcase
2:30pm. Edi Ya & Diamond’s Grove by a.k. payne
5:30pm. Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher
Sunday, June 23 (at Theatresquared)
2pm. Have to Believe We Are Magic by Sara Guerrero
5pm. Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem by Jonathan Norton