Curious Holiday Encounters

December 5-8, 2019

A curated, popular festival of interactive/immersive performance, held all over the building. We celebrate the holidays through non-traditional art created by some of our favorite artists including Theatre Du Reve, Full Radius and Little Five Points Rock Star Orchestra.

Human: A Pretty Monstrous Experience

May 9, 2020

A re-imagined arts festival with an array of virtual media celebrating the pretty monstrous things that make us HUMAN.

Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Heidi S. Howard
September 27th – October 14th, 2018

Two sad sack drifters wait by a tree for a mysterious stranger named Godot, in this classic tragicomic absurdist play by Samuel Beckett. As our society continues to wait for solutions that may never arrive, we present this introspective piece with original cast members from our lauded previous productions, including 7 Stages founder Del Hamilton and the legendary Don Finney.

Mondo Bizarro presents The Way at Midnight
by Mondo Bizarro
Directed by Joanna Russo
November 1st – 4th, 2018

7 Stages is thrilled to present the latest original work from New Orleans-based theater ensemble, Mondo Bizarro. The company that has been creating interdisciplinary art and fostering creative partnerships in local, national and international communities for fourteen years.

The Way at Midnight is humorous and incorporates theatrical performance, visual installation, projection mapping, and live and recorded music. Ancestral DNA leaps across generations, via projection screens, onto the bodies of performers  Hannah Pepper-Cunningham and Nick Slie. It is an incisive performance questioning the role cartography has played in colonization, and the way that legacies live in our bodies and affect our lives.  Midnight explores confrontations with losing and being lost from the colonial period through the digital age. The two main actors become seven characters on an interconnected journey to reckon with — and maybe even reimagine — their inheritance and ancestry.

Curious Holiday Encounters
December 6th-9th, 2018

The popular festival of interactive performances will once again take place throughout the entire building with a twist of holiday cheer… and delightful madness! Come celebrate this magical time of year as only 7 Stages can featuring, Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra, Aris Theatre, The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, Rebekah Suellau and more!

Paper Doll Militia Presents
Warped (World Premiere)
by Paper Doll Milia
February 21st-24th, 2019

Warped asks you to stare directly into infinity and embrace the mysteries of Time.  This circus theatre production challenges our societal perceptions of predictability and illuminates our complex relationship to our own mortality. Enter a fascinating world of suspended gears, cranks, levers, and ropes that move and morph like the inner mechanisms of a giant clock. Join these four quirky characters in their odyssey of relativity through this strikingly visual production in true Paper Doll Militia fashion.

This production is a true blending of circus arts and physical theater, balancing high skilled acrobatics with physical acting and attention to narrative. The show also utilizes projection and shadow work, and features original music composition.  It has been lovingly crafted in Los Angeles and is in its final stages of creation

Angry Fags (World Premiere)
by Topher Payne
Directed by Kate Macqueen with Ibi Owolabi
March 28th-April 14th, 2019

Topher Payne’s dark comedy Angry Fags is back with a vengeance for the Trump era. The all new production conveys what could happen if – even with good intention – fear is what is used to instigate change. Friends, Cooper and Bennett are two loving, genuine and charismatic characters who are met with desperation, anger, and ultimately motivation to “make it better” when they find out one of their tribe – a friend, an x lover, a boy they once knew – has been brutally assaulted. This is a cautionary tale, we must not become what we are fighting against. As our society is spiraling into chaos and division, people are suffering from outrage fatigue. Monsters don’t believe they are monsters, they are passionate about a thing.  If we become the monsters – they win.

An uncompromising Oscar Wilde-meets-Fight Club fantasia about how good ideas go bad, the destructiveness of toxic masculinity, and how no one is really afraid of gay guys, the worse case scenario needed an update.

Human: A Citizen’s Encounter (World Premiere) 
Directed by Heidi S. Howard
with Theresa Davis, Destiny Thompson, Dalyla McGee, and Ismâïl Ibn Conner
May 18th, 2019

Celebrate our 40^th anniversary season finale with an open festival of immersive performances sharing stories of family, ritual, and courage from all corners of our vibrant city.  Thanks to the NEA, 7 Stages ignites artistic responses to Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” with this original performance festival. ‘The book is a provocative meditation on race, recounting aggressions and encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and media in the form of essay, image, and poetry. Artistic responses highlight personal stories while evaluating our responsibility in navigating fear and political divide. The encounter includes an artist market, visual displays, video installations, open mic, poetry, dance, and food!

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

by Rajiv Joseph

September 14th – October 8th, 2017

Black History Hour 

by Mark Kendall

November 9th, 2017

Red Summer

by Theroun Patterson

November 9th, 2017

Deer Play

by Daryl Fazio

November 11th, 2017

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. 

by Alice Birch

dir. by Rachel Parish

November 16th, 2017

The Art of Gaman

by Dipika Guha

dir. by Pam Joyce

November 17th, 2017

Angry Fags 2017

by Topher Payne

November 18th, 2017

Then They Will Tell You It’s All In Your Head

by Theresa Davis

November 18th, 2017

The Followers: a retelling of The Bacchae

by Margaret Baldwin

February 3rd- 25th, 2018

Gomela/To Return: Movement of our Mother Tongue

by Junebug Productions

March 15th – 18th, 2018

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. 

by Alice Birch

April 26th – May 13th, 2018

The Threepenny Opera

by Bertolt Brecht

September 9th – 25th, 2016

Cowboy 

by Niv Scheinfeld and Oren Laor

November 3rd – 6th, 2016

No(se)onenowhere

by Ofir Nahari

November 9th – 13th, 2016

Krampus Xmas

December 8th-10th, 2016

Sea of Common Catastrophe

by ArtSpot Productions ensemble

February 2nd – 12th, 2017

White Woman in Progress

by Tara Ochs

March 17th – April 2nd, 2017

Curious Queer Encounters

curated by Michael Haverty

May 4th – 14th, 2017

Homebrew Series

Kat-I
September 17th, 2016

Fly on a Wall
October 1st, 2016

Wesley Carter
January 14th, 2016

Kevin Gillese and Michael Haverty
February 25th, 2017

Rachel Parish
March 25th, 2017

Jed Drummond, Andrew McGill, Matt Greenia
May 13