"She Kills Monsters" follows the story of Agnes, the “average” sister who discovers a fantasy gaming notebook written by Tilly, her “anything-but-average” sister, that offers unexpected clues into her sister’s life. Determined to know Tilly better, Agnes enters the raucously imaginative world of Dungeons & Dragons … and discovers things she’d never imagined.
In the wake of his father’s death, Hamlet finds both his personal and political worlds unimaginably changed. When his father’s ghost demands vengeance, Hamlet must decide: submit or resist, accept or avenge, live or die in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
Inspired by true events, heroes in training meet in secret on a Tennessee hilltop. All are changed, and some change America in "People Where They Are" by Anthony Clarvoe.
When the 12th Street riots erupt in the summer of 1967 after a raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar, the fate of the once booming blue collar town takes a turn for the worse on five young Detroiters. Set to a Motown beat, this Edward M. Kennedy Drama Prize winner explores an explosive and decisive moment in an American city.
David Sedaris' hilarious "The Santaland Diaries" brings Crumpet to the stage, the quintessential elf-gone-bad, as he relives a series of less-than-merry adventures as one of Santa’s helpers during the Macy’s Christmas shopping rush. See how the holiday season brings out the best — and the worst — in all of us.
"Alias Grace" is set in Ontario, Canada, in 1859. Grace Marks is serving a life sentence for murders committed 15 years ago, but says she has no memory of the killings. A doctor investigating psychological trauma in amnesiacs tries to unlock the details and truth from Grace’s memory, but the path is painful and shocking.
Commissioned by the Clarence Brown Theatre, this world premiere play by Christopher Oscar Pena tells an updated story of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town."
"Three Sisters" is the story of Olga, Masha and Irina as they struggle to let go of their past and shape their future in this classic Chekhov play.
Clarence Brown Theatre presents, "The Busy Body: A Comedy," a witty and fast-paced play about a young woman, her handsome lover and their friends plotting to escape a controlling guardian in a Restoration period comedy.
The Clarence Brown Theatre presents, "A Lesson Before Dying," the story about a young man, jailed for a murder he did not commit, who has lost his self-respect and is soon to lose his life. A young teacher, with most of his life ahead of him, has lost respect for the situation in which he lives. Both men teach each other ...
The Clarence Brown Theatre presents "The Santaland Diaries," a one-man show of David Sedaris' sardonic tales of an unemployed, chemically dependent writer who takes a job as a “helper elf” at Macy’s Santaland.
The Clarence Brown Theatre presents "Of Mice and Men," the John Steinbeck classic that follows two migrant workers during the 1930s Dust Bowl Depression.
Clarence Brown Theatre presents "Master Harold" ... and the boys, a play about a white South African teenager raised with two black waiters who work in his mother’s Port Elizabeth tea room. When he learns his racist, alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, the rage triggers his "inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid."
