Welcome to the 2024/25 season! This landmark 70th season spans genre and form with productions that speak to our current moment with clarity and heft.
This season is a celebration of milestones. It is the year in which Charles Newell will transition from Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director to Senior Artistic Consultant, and the year in which Court will welcome its new Artistic Director. Staging these plays at this moment instigates a fascinating exploration of what it means to live in a present that was imagined by works of the past. The 2024/25 season is here and the time is now.
by Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.
As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred?
A New Adaptation by Mickle Maher Based on the graphic novel by Jason Lutes Directed by Senior Artistic Consultant Charles Newell
Berlin is an unforgettable mosaic of intersecting narratives set amidst the decline of Weimar Germany. This original commission brings Jason Lutes’s exhilarating and acclaimed graphic novel to life.
Fascism is taking hold; revolutionaries are organizing; creatives are trying to capture the ineffable nature of their changing city; and – as everything falls apart – everyone is faced with a choice: abandon Berlin or fight to survive.
