2023 Season: TU's 5th Anniversary

Hit the Pavement or Hoboloboactive by Imani Alyse Redman
April 24th, 2023 - 7pm
In Person IN PERSON AT RIPLEY GRIER 939 8th Ave, New York, NY 10019 STUDIO 2B and Virtual

Dive into the world of homeless street crew The Mysfits. As tensions run high and the mystery of a member's disappearance looms,  each Mysfit must figure out what they want to fight for. Survival? Themselves? Each other? How much are they willing to lose in the process? They stay armed with their stories and dreams, some drugs, and some knowledge. Turns out they're much smarter than the world gives them credit for - and some of them refuse to be dismissed any longer. Through a fusion of music, dance, and poetry Hit the Pavement or Hoboloboactive explores survival and stories about what keeps us alive when we are at the highest of lows.

Artwork by Brandon Suppa
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Alamo: A New Musical by Gavin McGinnis
March 11th, 2023 - 5pm
In Person @ Open Jar Studios and Virtual

We are proud to present our first ever Young Playwrights in Residence presentation featuring a young artist from our education program Actor’s Professional Theatre Conservatory, Gavin McGinnis! Gavin has spent a full year writing and refining this piece and it will now open our 2023 Reading Series! Join us to celebrate this incredible young playwright March 11th at Open Jar Studios!

Artwork by Brandon Suppa

2022 Season: TU22

Unfinished
by: James Powers
September 19th, 2022 - 7pm

Unfinished is an absurdist musical comedy tackling the issues that many young adults find themselves in today. When life is suddenly halted and you are left wondering, “What do I do now?” In this world, we are introduced to Dude, a young person trying to become a writer. While he is trying to finish his song, many of the unfinished ideas, moments, and relationships from his life come to him and demand that he finish their part of the story first. In the process, we discover his own personal failings and feelings of inadequacy that have led him to this point in his life.
Artwork by Brandon Suppa and Kate Wilson

Hitting 
by: Christian Thompson
May 23rd, 2022 - 7pm

​Hitting is a play that examines our relationship to the homeless, our family, ourselves, and to the culture of subway dancing in NYC. In a journey that uses movement, direct, address and a lot of heart. We follow the Tru Crew on their quest to find solid footing in a world that keeps moving.
Artwork by Anna Robinson

The Firebird 
by: Amanda Faye Martin
June 20th, 2022 - 7pm

In The Firebird, an 80 year old Byelorussian immigrant named Basya hosts Passover 2019 at her farmhouse in New Hampshire. Tensions rise as ghosts (both figurative and literal) arise to confront Basya and her granddaughter, Natasha, who discovers that her ex-girlfriend is now engaged to her cousin Alex. Both women attempt to run, but are forced to reckon with their respective histories before the holiday is over. The Firebird is a semi-magical living room tragicomedy that deals with displacement and nostalgia; the experience of being forever haunted by a past that calls you back to it.
Artwork by Brandon Suppa

2021 Season: Hope Reimagined

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​In 2021, we determined Hope on our terms. As artists, a community, and a nation we need to create and reimagine Hope. Whether it is the ongoing challenges of Covid-19, teaching or being taught over zoom, bringing back in person theatre, or the racial injustice we continue to see in the fabric of our country; we can still move toward Hope Reimagined. Hope is what continues to inspire us to keep moving forward each day and it will continue to guide Theatre [Untitled] and our artistic community. ​

​​...but you could've held my hand
By: JuCoby Johnson

Theatre [Untitled] Reading Series
​April 30, 2021 - 8pm

Four ten-year olds meet at a wedding. Little do they know, they will become the center of each other's lives for decades to come. Jumping through time, the play uses dance, music, and poetry to explore sexuality, gender, race, and love. You know, the big stuff. Life stuff.

Best Friends
​By: Lilly Camp

Theatre [Untitled] Reading Series
​June 25, 2021 -8pm

Total loner Elle Summers only has room in her life for her graduation plan– getting into Harvard– until acquaintance Matt Durand asks her to take care of his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend, Haley Moore. Haley are quickly bonded, with their own hashtags, school-wide rumors about their relationship, even plans to move to New York together after high school. Both fiercely believe that no one else understands them– their abusive homes, their grand cross-country ambitions, their desperate need for one another… but they also believe that they are on the same page, even after Elle realizes she’s in love with Haley, and Haley doesn’t feel the same way. A coming of age story, Best Friend tracks three teenagers over their senior year of high school as they struggle to define themselves and their relationships to each other, and shows how coming out in the Internet era has only made things more complicated.

Well Intentioned White People
By: Imani Vaughn-Jones

Theatre [Untitled] Reading Series
October 25th, 2021

Upon moving to Atlanta, Nia, a Black aspiring writer, must find a way to navigate the unexpected racial landmines of her white in-laws, her career, and society at large while trying to keep her interracial marriage and herself intact. It’s after a racist encounter with an industry professional that her marriage faces the ultimate test, and Nia is forced to choose between her relationship and herself. A play that’s meant to be both read and seen, Well-Intentioned White People explores police brutality, allyship, Blackness, and the inherent violence of whiteness.

2020 Season

Claire: circa 2007-2016
​Written By: Vinny Mraz
Directed By: Roque Berlanga

February 17, 2020
Open Jar Studios

2019 Season

The Voice of Broadway
Written By: George Strum
Directed By: Roque Berlanga and Hannah Stephens

January 22-26, 2019
Hudson Guild Theater

I Sold You That Shirt: Stories of the Side Hustle
Directed By: Kate Wilson and Leah Pye
Music Directed By: Nick Place

January 6, 2019
The Green Room 42

2018 Season

The Whale Play
​Written By: Kati Schwartz
Directed By: Roque Berlanga

November 4-6, 2018
The Drama Book Shop