By Dalia Taha
Directed by Adam M. Kassim

Ramallah-based, Palestinian playwright DaliaTaha's utterly distinct slices of Palestinian life are at times unsettling, heartbreaking, and humorous - as parents, lovers, sisters and friends cope with a decades-long occupation. These exquisite short plays explore how the most intimate of relationships are infiltrated by colonization and displacement.

By Alexandra Petri
Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner

Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri’s pitched battle of bloviating wits revisits the televised Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 and the blistering nightly free-for-all between conservative pundit William F. Buckley and liberal author Gore Vidal. What ensues is a battle for history itself, in a no-holds-barred sesquipedalian brawl about another time when American politics was spinning toward entropy. A protean cast of Demons bring the likes of Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote back to shine a bright light on these preening wordsmiths, wounded warriors on the battlefield of extreme partisanship.

Lead Underwriter: The Vradenburg Foundation
Part of Locally Grown Mosaic