NPRF26: The Frankenstein Project
The Frankenstein Project is about the monsters we battle, the monsters we create, and the monsters we (sometimes) are.
Genres: Theater
NPRF26: Agape
A moving, profoundly funny coming-of-age story about the stress of college, crises of faith, arrested development, and reckoning with not having all the answers.
NPRF26: The Labours
In The Labours, celebrated playwright Luis Alfaro—known for his powerful adaptations of Greek classics through a contemporary Latinx lens—returns with a bold reimagining of Euripides’ Herakles.
NPRF25: Beautiful Blessed Child
Aimiko has never taken a road trip with their Mom. This is their story. Kind of. And again. And again.
NPRF25: Venus
A new dark comedy by Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant) that recounts one relationship as it spirals from a meet-cute to a spectacularly horrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
at the very bottom of a body of water
by Benjamin Benne
directed by Juliette Carrillo
Poignant, surprising, and darkly unconventional, this poetic world premiere play explores how we navigate life after the unexpected.
Pericles
written by William Shakespeare
in a modern verse translation by Ellen McLaughlin
directed by Margaret Shigeko Starbuck
This re-conceptualization of Shakespeare’s Pericles – in Ellen McLaughlin’s translation – embraces movement and music to tell a thrilling tale.
Octopus’s Garden
by Weston Gaylord
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
A surreal, soulful comedy about two scientists, a composer, and an octopus who writes the greatest music ever heard.
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
A defrocked minister encounters inner and outer disturbances over the course of one turbulent night at the Costa Verde hotel, in this rarely staged play that illuminates how much we yearn for real human connection – especially when we’re at the end of our rope.
Mariology
by Nancy Keystone
created in collaboration with Critical Mass Performance Group
Illuminating the Virgin Mary’s roles in systems of gender, power, and personal agency, Nancy Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Group bring their signature form-busting, exuberant theatricality to the West Coast Premiere of Mariology.
