THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
BY JEREMY KAREKEN & DAVID MURRELL AND GORDON FARRELL

April 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, May 2, 3, 4, 5

Jim Fingal is fresh out of Harvard when he's given his first fact-checking assignment for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. That essay is by John D'Agata, and it's so good that it could save the magazine... if it's true. But do facts always tell the truth? And is the truth always based in fact? The Lifespan of a Fact is a "buoyantly literate, wholly resonant" (Washington Post) comedy about "the ethics of factual truth vs. the beauty of literary dishonesty" (Variety).

PHOTOGRAPH 51
BY ANNA ZIEGLER

June 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23

While you may not have learned her name in your high school science classes, Rosalind Franklin was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. Anna Ziegler's illuminating drama, told by the men surrounding Franklin during her too-short career in the 1950s, is a moving portrait of the only woman racing to map the DNA molecule and a paean to the trailblazers that history has forgotten or erased. Photograph 51 is "a remarkable balance of scientific subject matter and theatrical storytelling...that glows with intelligence and humanity" (Backstage).

WHITE
BY James IJAMES

July 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, August 1, 2, 3, 4

Gus is an artist, but he's not the type galleries or museums want to
show anymore: a white dude. Determined to prove the worthlessness of identity politics, Gus hires Vanessa, a Black actress, to become Balkonaé Townsend, the diverse, public face of his exhibit. But as Balkonaé takes over, Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames's White spins out of control into a "bold, outlandish, insightful, and exciting" (DC Theatre Arts) comedy about privilege, sexism, and exploitation in the art world and beyond.

TINY BEaUTIFUL THINGS
BY NIA VARDALOS

September 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22

Based on Cheryl Strayed's bestselling book and adapted by Nia Vardalos, the Academy Award nominated writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Tiny Beautiful Things follows the sometimes funny, often poignant, deeply empathetic relationship between Sugar, an anonymous advice columnist, and the readers who bare their souls to her. Told in a tapestry of letters and vignettes, this heartfelt dramedy "is about the endangered art of listening to–and really hearing and responding to–other people" (New York Times).

DARK MATTERS
BY ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA

October 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, November 1, 2, 3

Something strange is happening in the mountains of Virginia. Bridget Cleary vanishes one night, leaving her husband and teenage son stunned. Then, just as soon as she left, Bridget reappears with a terrifying story: she came face-to-face with aliens, and they want her son, Jeremy, next. But is the threat to the Clearys supernatural or all too human? From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the creator of Riverdale, Dark Matters is "a taut thriller... smartly constructed and written" (Curtain Up) about the secrets that can either hold families together or tear them apart.