Mainstage Productions
EST/Sloan Project Readings
written by Margot Connolly & directed by Alex Keegan
In a coding competition, two teams of teenage girls need to create an app that changes the world for the better - but who decides which app and cause is most worthy?
Thursday, March 12th, 3 PM
by Amanda Keating
Bouncing from a present-day German lab where a team of women scientists study the fossilized dental plaque of medieval monastics to a German scriptorium in the 11th century, with fellowship is a play about loneliness and loss, asking how history defines science, art, and faith.
Thursday, February 27th, 8 PM
*please note, the time of this reading has shifted from what was originally announced
by Kristin Slaney & The Lobbyists
Miss Mitchell is a musical about Maria Mitchell, the first female professional astronomer in America, and an influential figure in women’s education on the island of Nantucket.
Monday, February 24th, 7 PM
by Michael Walek
The Tanzanian government allowed Jane Goodall to study chimpanzees in the wild under one condition - she must bring a chaperone. So, Jane invited her mother.
Thursday, February 13th, 3 PM & 7 PM
by Jessica Dickey
A playwright searches for the surviving letters between Galileo and his eldest daughter. Expanding across time, this story is an exploration of faith, forgiveness, and the cost of heeding one’s truth.
Monday, February 10th, 7 PM
by Justice Hehir, with dramaturg Emilie Pass
FreePlay is a feminist sex toy company, popular for its deconstructed take on the dildo. A story about engineering, female friendships, dildos, and the people who make them.
Thursday, January 30th, 7 PM
by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton
Smart explores how much our identity is shaped by habits, and what happens when our possessions start responding to the information of our daily lives.
Tuesday, January 28th, 7 PM
by Mona Pirnot
At a beach house in the Caribbean, subjects come and go to take part in a trial testing the therapeutic value of one doctor’s homemade herpes vaccine.
Thursday, January 16th, 7 PM
Youngblood Readings
by Andrew Massey
In the wake of the unexpected suicide of their son, Cole, a family tries to piece their life together. “Cole” is a study of how grief builds and self-perpetuates, examining how loss changes us and how we move forward when our world is shattered.
Friday, February 28th at 7pm & Saturday, February 29th at 2pm
Youngblood Brunches
with plays by Jake Brasch, AJ Clauss, Yilong Liu, Andrew Massey, & Megan Chan Meinero
Sunday, March 1st, 12:30pm & 3:30pm
