DIGITAL STREAMING
July 6th - 12th Streaming on Demand on CUR8
Tickets on Sale June 8th
Make A Wave
Bear Trap Garden
By Mikayla Delos-Santos
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Bear Trap Garden takes place in a matriarchal society in the distant future. Girls are brought up to flourish and boys to watch. Women are powerful and men are gentle. Emme, a bright and eager sixteen-year-old, volunteers in the boys school. She meets Elliot, a boy who was raised outside the system by his mother, now dead, and his father, now missing. In her search for answers, identity, and equality, Emme discovers dark truths about both the world that surrounds her and the world that came before her.
Run //Tracey.exe
By Aaron Garrett
Streaming July 6th - 12th
On a nowhere space station an overwork AI keeps its head down keeps things humming. Tracey’s past is a mystery, but no one thinks to ask about it, not since the Disconnect, no one wants to think about that. Until a mysterious inspector shows up asking a lot of questions, poking her head in, trying to be friendly.
Fem-Ship
By Joelle Joyner-Wong
Streaming July 6th - 12th
When you’re a young girl, you think the most important thing is to have a boyfriend. Someone to buy you gifts. Someone to validate you. Someone who spends all their time with you. Having a boyfriend is great, but it’s also important to not forget about your friends. Especially your girlfriends. Ever since she was 16, Zenaida had been in a relationship. After years of kissing frogs, Zenaida moves to a new city where she begins to navigate life the world in her eyes. Along the way, she lands her dream job, finds herself and realizes the importance of female friendships.
If a Tree Falls
By Daniel Black
Streaming July 6th - 12th
If A Tree Falls is a haunting new play about love, memory, and the echoes we leave behind. When Nick returns to the woods where he once spent summers with his late wife Abigail, the boundaries between past and present begin to blur. Across four decades — from 1972 to 2026 — relationships fracture, reconnect, and collide in unexpected ways as generations grapple with grief, forgiveness, and what it truly means to be remembered. Both intimate and theatrical, If A Tree Falls explores how places hold memory, how love survives loss, and whether we ever truly leave the people we love behind.
THE UNDERSTANDING
By Rachel Rubin Ladutke
Streaming July 6th - 12th
THE UNDERSTANDING is set in an affluent neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995. Prominent obstetrician Victor Cordoba has been accused of horrific acts during the "Dirty War" nearly twenty years earlier. He maintains his innocence, even as his entire household is inexorably drawn into the fray, in the midst of preparations for his daughter Sofia's Quinceanera. When his older daughter, 19-year-old Eva, makes an astonishing discovery about their past, it threatens to tear everything - and everyone - apart once and for all. Victor must finally accept...and understand...the magnitude of his actions.
I don't know, then we die
By Amelia Merrill
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Claire and Mona, best friends for life, lock themselves in the girls' bathroom and get ready for one last school dance before the climate apocalypse ruins everything — including their makeup. Claire knows a secret about the mysterious and deadly Floodwater Flu ravaging their town, but Mona might be too self-absorbed to listen. I don't know, then we die is a two-hander about teenage girls who just want to know if the end of the world is for real this time.
Usernames
By Mission Reed
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Usernames is a set of fictional interviews, weaving the stories of the last 12 remaining players of online video game: Artaxian Online. Taking on the moniker Newbie2000, an amateur journalist delves deep into the dungeons and canyons of Artaxia. Being welcomed into the community so openly, Newbie learns of a melancholy that fills the air, but also of a joy that fills the heart. An ode to the love of place, and a tale of grief
Two Nights In Altoona
By Lily Boulard
Streaming July 6th - 12th
25-year-old Cecilia has seemingly made it big: she has secured a lead role on a Netflix show, a high level of notoriety as a stand-up comic, and a stable life in Los Angeles. But even up-and-coming stars like herself are susceptible to the hauntings of the past. On a trip to her home state of Pennsylvania to give a speech on Eating Disorder Awareness, Cecilia is forced to confront her wounded relationship with her parents and address the traumas she has been ignoring for years- specifically, her father's and her own shared experience of anorexia.
Shangri-La-La, a comedy musical about Siegfried & Roy
By Mike Meier
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Shangri-La-La is a bold, irreverent comedy musical set inside the glittering illusion machine of Las Vegas. This abbreviated one-hour festival version focuses on Siegfried & Roy and their extraordinary reinvention at Steve Wynn’s Mirage Hotel. Created as global icons to fill its 3,044 rooms, they helped usher in a new era of family-friendly entertainment, replacing topless showgirls with white tigers, sequins, and magic on an epic scale. Visually playful and sharply comic, Shangri-La-La captures the moment Las Vegas reinvented itself — and two performers became its most dazzling illusion.
The Last Real Housewife of Wyoming
By Peter Carellini
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Over the course of a night, 'Real Housewives of Wyoming' franchise star Giancarla Albreghetto descends into paranoia and rage while awaiting news on whether her spinoff has been cancelled or not. As she deals with influencers, local land barons, and her close circle trying to reign her in, the reality television machine threatens a collective path towards self-destruction for everyone in orbit.
Untitled Oz Project
By William Meurer
Streaming July 6th - 12th
A queer, autistic young man finds himself alone in a strange room in the middle of the night after he's been kicked out by his mother. Unsure of where to go or how things have gone so wrong, he turns to the one constant in his life: The Wizard of Oz, and begins a journey down an unpaved road of memories.
An Awkward Timing
By Yide Cai
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Set in 1976 China, in the aftermath of the Tangshan earthquake and Mao Zedong’s death, An Awkward Timing follows YoYo, a rebellious 17-year-old factory apprentice with a love for poetry, and NanNan, a pragmatic 15-year-old girl torn between survival and self-discovery. As they navigate life in a refugee camp, they endure two earthquakes—one physical, as their world lies in ruins, and one ideological, as the death of Mao shakes the foundations of their beliefs.
An Institution
By Dan Takacs
Streaming July 6th - 12th
When a professor kisses a student during a classroom acting scene, the TA goes on a crusade to get him fired. But the professor calls in every favor to save his career, and soon each faculty member must choose a side.
Equity
By Stephen Fruchtman
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Here in end stage capitalism, it can sometimes feel like we're going in circles. The people with all the money are ruining everything while they profit off of the ruination, and they're all starting to look like the same two people. A virtual play written for Skype that has to be presented, purely coincidentally, on Zoom. Here in end stage capitalism, it can sometimes feel like we're going in circles...A grimly comic private equity take on the La Ronde Formula.
To the Valley
By Luis Macias
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Three strangers stowaway in the back of a fruit truck heading to the last oasis on Earth, the Rio Grande Valley. As they get closer to the valley, they learn a cosmic evil spread its roots in their new home. An absurd-ish magical realism satire based on current events involving aerospace and corrupt politicians mixed with larval masks, and lyrical text.
Sorrow 1882
By Katherine Lyle
Streaming July 6th - 12th
Sorrow, 1882 is a meditation on Van Gogh’s trials with addiction, mania, and suicidal ideation, and his relationships with the people who loved him. Through the unreliable eyes of the artist in the throes of his illness, the piece is based on the letters Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, published by Theo’s wife, Jo van Gogh-Bonger. The play is written in blank verse in an effort to paint with words the way Van Gogh painted so beautifully with color.