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2025 Season

2025 Archives and Media

 

Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular by Lisa Sanaye Dring

Happy Fall by Lisa Sanaye Dring

July 9, 2025 – August 3, 2025

2025 - Play - Kevin Kling: Unraveled by Kevin Kling

Kevin Kling: Unraveled by Kevin Kling

July 9, 2025 – August 3, 2025

Magdalene by Mark St. Germain

July 9, 2025 – August 3, 2025

Side Effects May Include… by Lisa Loomer

July 9, 2025 – August 3, 2025

2025 - Play - Did My Grandfather Kill My Grandfather by Cody Leroy Wilson

Did My Grandfather Kill My Grandfather? by Cody LeRoy Wilson

July 9, 2025 – August 3, 2025

2024 Season

What Will Happen To All That Beauty

What Will Happen to All That Beauty? by Donja R. Love

July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024

Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting

Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting by Harmon dot aut

July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024

Enough to Let the Light In

Enough to Let the Light In by Paloma Nozicka

July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024

The Happiest Man on Earth by Mark St. Germain

July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024

A Mother's Voice

A Mother’s Voice

July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024

2023 Season

The Overview Effect by Lynn Rosen

The Overview Effect by Lynn Rosen

July 12, 2023 – August 6, 2023

Fever Dreams by Jeffrey Lieber

July 12, 2023 – August 6, 2023

Redeemed

Redeemed by Chisa Hutchinson

July 12, 2023 – August 6, 2023

Spiritus/ Virgil's Dance

Spiritus / Virgil’s Dance by Dael Orlandersmith

July 12, 2023 – August 6, 2023

Your Name Means Dream

Your Name Means Dream by José Rivera

July 12, 2023 – August 6, 2023

2022 Season

Whitelisted by Chisa Hutchinson

Whitelisted by Chisa Hutchinson

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

Babel by Jacqueline Goldfinger

Babel by Jacqueline Goldfinger

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

TheFifthDomain

The Fifth Domain by Victor Lesniewski

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

Ushuaia Blue

Ushuaia Blue by Caridad Svich

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

TheHouseoftheNegroInsane

The House of the Negro Insane by Terence Anthony

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

Sheepdog

Sheepdog by Kevin Artigue

July 13, 2022 – August 7, 2022

2021 Season

CATF 2021 Playcast Plus

CATF PlaycastPlus

July 9 – 30, 2021

Black Women’s Struggle for the Vote

April 12, 2021 7:30 pm

Pushout Book

PUSHOUT The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

February 3, 2021 6:00 pm

2020 Season

Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron

Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron

December 8, 2020 6:30 pm

Dance We Do by Ntozake Shange

November 28, 2020 6:30 pm

It Happened Here

It Happened Here by Richard Dresser

October 26, 2020 10:00 am

2019 Season

My Lord, What a Night by Deborah Brevoort

My Lord, What a Night by Deborah Brevoort

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Support Group for Men by Ellen Fairey

Support Group for Men by Ellen Fairey

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Wrecked by Greg Kalleres

Wrecked by Greg Kalleres

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

A Welcome Guest: A Psychotic Fairy Tale by Michael Weller

A Welcome Guest: A Psychotic Fairy Tale by Michael Weller

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Chester Bailey by Joseph Dougherty

Chester Bailey

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

Antonio’s Song / I was dreaming of a son by Dael Orlandersmith & Antonio Edwards Suarez

Antonio’s Song / I was dreaming of a son by Dael Orlandersmith & Antonio Edwards Suarez

July 10, 2019 – August 4, 2019

2018 Season

Season Gallery and Media Archives

The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter

The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

Berta, Berta by Angelica Chéri

Berta, Berta by Angelica Chéri

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory

Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

Thirst by C.A. Johnson

Thirst by C.A. Johnson

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

A Late Morning in America with Ronald Reagan by Michael Weller

A Late Morning [In America] with Ronald Reagan by Michael Weller

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

The House on the Hill by Amy E. Witting

The House on the Hill by Amy E. Witting

July 11, 2018 – August 5, 2018

2017 Season

Season Press Archives

The Niceties

The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

Welcome to Fear City

Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

Wild Horses

Wild Horses by Allison Gregory

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

Byhalia Mississippi

Byhalia, Mississippi by Evan Linder

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

Everything is Wonderful

Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

We Will Not Be Silent by David Meyers

We Will Not Be Silent by David Meyers

July 12, 2017 – August 6, 2017

2016 Season

2016 Season Archives

pen/man/ship by Christina Anderson

pen/man/ship by Christina Anderson

July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016

The Second Girl by Ronan Noone

The Second Girl by Ronan Noone

July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016

The Wedding Gift by Chisa Hutchinson

July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016

20th Century Blues by Susan Miller

20th Century Blues by Susan Miller

July 13, 2016 – August 6, 2016

Not Medea by Allison Gregory

July 11, 2016 – August 3, 2016

2015 Season

2015 Season Archives

Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan

Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan

July 8, 2015 – August 8, 2015

We Are Pussy Riot by Barbara Hammond

We Are Pussy Riot by Barbara Hammond

July 8, 2015 – August 8, 2015

World Builders by Johnna Adams

World Builders by Johnna Adams

July 8, 2015 – August 8, 2015

On Clover Road by Steven Dietz

On Clover Road by Steven Dietz

July 8, 2015 – August 8, 2015

The Full Catastrophe by Michael Weller

The Full Catastrophe by Michael Weller

July 8, 2015 – August 8, 2015

2014 Festival

The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson *
One Night by Charles Fuller
Uncanny Valley by Thomas Gibbons *^
North of the Boulevard by Bruce Graham
Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson *


2013 Festival

A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World by Liz Duffy Adams *
Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them by Jon Kern
H2O by Jane Martin **
Heartless by Sam Shepard
Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah by Mark St. Germain **


2012 Festival

Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams *
The Exceptionals by Bob Clyman
In A Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute
Captors by Evan M. Wiener
Barcelona by Bess Wohl *


2011 Festival

From Prague by Kyle Bradstreet *
Race by David Mamet
Ages of the Moon by Sam Shepard
We Are Here by Tracy Thorne
The Insurgents by Lucy Thurber **


2010 Festival

The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show by Max Baker & Lee Sellars *
Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Breadcrumbs
by Jennifer Haley *
Inana by Michele Lowe
White People by J.T. Rogers


2009 Festival

A History of Light by Eisa Davis*
Yankee Tavern
by Steven Dietz
Dear Sara Jane by Victor Lodato*
Farragut North by Beau Willimon
Fifty Words by Michael Weller


2008 Festival

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond
A View of the Harbor
by Richard Dresser *
Pig Farm
by Greg Kotis
WRECKS
by Neil LaBute
The Overwhelming
by J.T. Rogers


2007 Festival

Lonesome Hollow by Lee Blessing *
The Pursuit of Happiness
by Richard Dresser
My Name is Rachel Corrie
from the writings of Rachel Corrie edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
1001
by Jason Grote


 2006 Festival

Augusta by Richard Dresser *
Jazzland by Keith Glover **
Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle
Sex, Death, and the Beach Baby by Kim Merrill *


 2005 Festival

Augusta by Richard Dresser +
Jazzland by Keith Glover ++
Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez
On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning by Eric Overmyer ~
The God of Hell by Sam Shepard
American Tet by Lydia Stryk*
Father Joy by Sheri Wilner *


 2004 Festival

Amazing by Brooke Berman ~
Flag Day by Lee Blessing *
Rounding Third by Richard Dresser
Homeland Security by Stuart Flack
The Rose of Corazon: A Texas Songplay by Keith Glover **
Father Joy by Sheri Wilner +


 2003 Festival

Whores by Lee Blessing *
Flag Day by Lee Blessing +
Bright Ideas by Eric Coble
The Clandestine Crossing by Keith Glover+
The Last Schwartz by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Wilder by Erin Cressida Wilson


 2002 Festival

Thief River by Lee Blessing
Rounding Third by Richard Dresser +
Silence of God by Catherine Filloux **
The Late Henry Moss by Sam Shepard
Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright *
Melissa Arctic by Craig Wright +


 2001 Festival

Tape by Stephen Belber
Carol Mulroney by Stephen Belber +
Silence of God by Catherine Filloux ++
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa by John Olive *
The Occupation by Harry Newman *
The Pavilion by Craig Wright
Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright +


 2000 Festival

Something in the Air by Richard Dresser
Mary and Myra by Catherine Filloux *
Miss Golden Dreams, A Play Cycle by Joyce Carol Oates *
Hunger by Sheri Wilner *


1999 Festival

Coyote on a Fence by Bruce Graham
Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher **
Tatjana in Color by Julia Jordan *
Flo’s Ho’s by Julia Jordan ++
The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod


 1998 Festival

Gun-Shy by Richard Dresser
Interesting Times by Preston Foerder **
Carry the Tiger to the Mountain by Cherylene Lee **
BAFO by Tom Strelich


 1997 Festival

Lighting Up the Two Year Old by Benjie Aerenson
Below the Belt by Richard Dresser
Demonology by Kelley Stuart
CATF Dance Ensemble


 1996 Festival

Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson
The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz
The Nose by Elizabeth Egloff
Octupus by Jon Klein *
Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oates *


 1995 Festival

Beti the Yeti by Jon Klein
Maggie’s Riff by Jon Lipsky
Psyche Was Here by Lynne Martin *
Voir Dire by Joe Sutton


 1994 Festival

What are Tuesdays Like? by Victor Bumbalo *
Shooting Simone by Lynne Kaufman
Spike Heels by Teresa Rebeck
Forgiving Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain


 1993 Festival

A Contemporary Masque by Stephen Bennet
Dream House by Darrah Cloud
Alabama Rain by Heather McCutchen
Black by Joyce Carol Oates


1992 Festival

The Baby Dance by Jane Anderson
The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff
Still Waters by Lynn Martin *
Static by Ben Siegler


1991 Festival

Accelerando by Lisa Loomer
Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick Shanley

** world premiere; commissioned by CATF
* world premiere
^ NNPN Rolling World Premiere
++ staged reading; commissioned by CATF
+ staged reading
~ CATF Actors’ Lab Workshop

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