Our 2025 season opens with Joshua Harmon's sweeping epic that spans generations, examining what it means to be home and the enduring impact of history on our present lives.
Extended through May 2025
Prayer for the French Republic
by Joshua Harmon
directed by Jeremy Wechsler
Co-production with Northlight Theatre
A powerful story spanning five generations of a French Jewish family, from 1944 to 2017. In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris anxiously awaits news of their missing relatives. Seventy years later, their great-grandchildren confront the same harrowing question: "Are we safe?"
A profound, sweeping look at history, home, and the enduring scars of hatred, all delivered with Harmon's signature wit. Performed at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.
★★★★ Wechsler's ensemble knocks the show out of the park. The intricate drama hurtles by on a razor's edge between tragedy and comedy, rage and serenity, hope and despair. Catey Sullivan, Sun Times
Thrilling to watch! Everybody on earth ought to go see Prayer for the French Republic Dueling Critics, WCDB
Rich, sprawling and heartfelt! Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
November - December
Who's Holiday!
by Matthew Lombardo
directed by Christopher Pazdernik
starring Veronica Garza
WHO'S HOLIDAY! Is a wildly funny and heartfelt adults-only comedy that tells the story of Cindy Lou Who as she recalls that Christmas Eve she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has now taken.
You saw her last when she was just two
Celebrate the holidays with Cindy Lou Who
Pull up a seat and fill up your cup
'Cause your favorite little Who is all grown up
A raunchy riff on Dr Seuss's yuletide tale … The little tyke has become a bottle-blonde adult who spends her days in a trailer appointed with Airstream functionality and seasonal kitsch … brassy, very funny … a holiday offering that dirties up Christmas while ultimately reveling in its spirit.Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times
