This Season

The forces that would have us turn away from each other, that would have us distrust our neighbors and fear the unfamiliar, are louder than they have been in a long time. Gathering around art, song, dance, and story has always been how people metabolize the unbearable, imagine the impossible, and reach across great divides […]

Joey Arias and Basil Twist’s legendary musical extravaganza returns to its original home for a strictly limited engagement.

Alenka is struggling to communicate in a strange world much like ours, where language is diluted by algorithms, feelings, and animal impulses. Her cousin Frankie is coming to visit and won’t stop sending her reels. And her house is starting to voice its opinions out loud. In The Kick Inside, The Million Underscores_ _ invite us to join Alenka as she pulls at the thread of everyday communication in a lost city where humans, animals, and machines keep talking over each other. In a crisis of communication, can a new language be born?

ਆਦਤ / the Ādat (habit) is the story of a young woman’s life-altering catfishing compulsion, set against the backdrop of Sikh-American life in the Bay Area during early social media.

Water Walker is a puppetry experience that honors the nation’s first "freedom march" - The Igbo Landing of 1803. Through a fusion of shadow, tabletop, and rod puppetry, we follow one man’s journey from West Africa to the shores of Georgia—a profound exploration of resilience, agency, and the fight for freedom.

STONE BELLY is a dance-theater performance centering the resilient mythology of babaylans and teachings of land-based healers from the Philippines. Babaylans — women and trans shamanic healers — were our precolonial leaders, whose traditions still persist today, called by different names.

URHERE is a new one-of-a-kind, rigorously curated virtual platform for outdoor and digital premieres. URHERE aims to occupy an important part of the art ecosystem which nurtures experimentation, sparks dialogue, and creates engagement with the local community.