Vineyard Theatre’s upcoming 2021-2022 Season includes Broadway, virtual, and a return to Vineyard Theatre’s home in Union Square at 108 East 15th Street with two world premiere productions and more!

Is This A Room and Dana H. will play in repertory this fall at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). The two productions will play alternating performances for a limited engagement through November 14, 2021.

Is This A Room
Conceived & Directed by Tina Satter
Starring Emily Davis
Broadway Premiere of The Vineyard production
Previews begin September 24, 2021
Opening October 1, 2021

Is This A Room is the astonishingly true story of Reality Winner, the 25-year-old former Air Force linguist who was surprised at her home by the FBI on June 3, 2017. The play’s text is taken from the FBI transcript of her interrogation – and from these pages, Tina Satter has wrought an extraordinary human drama between Reality (Emily Davis) and the agents who question her. In this theatrical thriller, Reality’s life is upended before our eyes, and we’re left questioning American values and the very nature of the truth.

Emily Davis will make her Broadway debut, reprising her award-winning role of Reality Winner, in a performance that Time Out New York described as one “of heart-wrenching rawness and lucidity.”

Additional cast includes: Becca Blackwell as Unknown Male, Will Cobbs as Agent Taylor and Pete Simpson as Agent Garrick. Duane Cooper and Katherine Romans will serve as understudies in the production.

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Dana H.
By Lucas Hnath
Adapted from interviews with
Dana Higginbotham Conducted By Steve Cosson
Starring Deirdre O’Connell
Directed By Les Waters
Broadway Premiere of The Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group and Vineyard Theatre Production
Previews begin October 1, 2021
Opening October 17, 2021

Dana H. tells the harrowing true story of a woman held captive in a series of Florida motels for five months. Told in Dana’s own words and reconstructed for the stage by her son, playwright Lucas Hnath, this groundbreaking work shatters the boundaries of the art form and challenges our understanding of good and evil.

Deirdre O’Connell will return to Broadway in Dana H., reprising her Obie award-winning performance that was hailed as “astounding” (The Wrap), “astonishing” (Time Out New York) and “truly mesmerizing” (The Daily Beast).

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sandblasted
By Charly Evon Simpson
Directed by Summer L. Williams
World Premiere
A co-production with WP Theatre
February 6 – March 6, 2022 at Vineyard Theatre

Angela and Odessa are on a sandy search for something that might not be real but they are determined to make a way out of no way. When they stumble upon ADAH, that’s right THE Celebrity-turned-Wellness-Maven Adah, they decide to follow her lead not knowing that the journey could very well be the cure. sandblasted is a deeply stirring, funny, theatrically daring story of waiting and hoping, time and healing, from the recipient of The Vineyard’s 2019 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Charly Evon Simpson (Behind the Sheet), directed by Elliot Norton Award-winning director Summer L. Williams in her New York Debut.

Sandra
By David Cale
Music by Matthew Dean Marsh
Directed by Leigh Silverman
World Premiere
Spring 2022 at Vineyard Theatre

In this new one-woman thriller, Sandra seeks to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of her closest friend, a young pianist and composer, who went on a trip to Mexico and never returned. Her search for clues leads her into both a highly charged love affair, and increasingly dangerous territory. Sandra reunites playwright David Cale and director Leigh Silverman after their award-winning collaboration on Harry Clarke (2018 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show), and features an original piano score by Matthew Dean Marsh.

Lessons In Survival, Part 2
Created with and Performed by The Commissary
Directed by Tyler Thomas
Special event — Live, in person

Part retrospective, part reenvisioning, ​Lessons in Survival, Part 2 explores and elevates the layers of relationship,​ ideas, and​ provocation​s​ set within James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni’s seminal ​1971 ​conversation. Marking the 50-year anniversary of the historic interview, the work seeks to reintroduce this crucial dialogue on the history and legacies of race to our present moment. Building off the digital exploration of Part 1 (Best Theatre of 2020, NYT), ​Lessons in Survival, Part 2 reinvestigates the intimate and incisive questions at the heart of Baldwin and Giovanni’s ​conversation, getting at the root of American mythologies, racial category, and our shared responsibility to liberate one another and ourselves.

Details and collaborators for ​Lessons in Survival, Part 2 will be announced at a later date.

Fall Forward Festival
Ngozi Anyanwu, Kirsten Childs, Jared Mezzocchi, Polly Pen, Madeline Sayet

During the pandemic shutdown, the Vineyard commissioned five daring artists to create new works of alternative theatre. Over the year, these projects — as varied as the artists creating them — were seeded and grew, and now, we can’t wait to share them with you. Vineyard Theatre’s FALL FORWARD FESTIVAL will feature a mix of live-in person, live virtual, filmed, and audio performances, some fully realized and some in process. Join us to experience five different ways artists are leaping into the future.

The FALL FORWARD FESTIVAL includes Kirsten Childs’ Aunt Lillian, a wickedly funny audio musical about a battle of wills between two young girls and their no-nonsense aunt, directed by Awoye Timpo (audio musical); Ngozi Anyanwu’s Maybe Dorothy Was Right, a short film and love letter to New York and the theatre, directed by Alfonso Johnson (short film); Jared Mezzocchi ‘s On the Beauty of Loss (live/virtual), an introspective multimedia performance exploring the emergence of social technology and its impact on memory and grief; Polly Pen’s 56 Flowers, a chamber musical about a receptionist who finds herself drawn to the story of the 19th century composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond (live reading in person); and Madeline Sayet’s The Fish, a new full-length play following two Mohegan-Jewish siblings on a search to find out what their ancestors never meant for them to know (live reading in person)

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